NW NOGGIN: Neuroscience outreach group (growing in networks)

Noggin @ Discovery Middle School
2016-02-09 09:00 - 15:30 UTC, 2016-02-05 12:00 - 15:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Discovery Middle School, 800 E 40th St , Vancouver, WA, 98663, United States
Outreach visit to Discovery Middle School
Discovery Middle School
800 E 40th St, Vancouver, WA 98663
7th grade classes

Velo Cult: Memory, Art, Genes & Bikes!
2016-01-27 18:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Velo Cult Bike Shop, 1969 NE 42nd, Portland, OR
Join us for an evening with internationally renowned artist Kindra Crick, and Dr. John Harkness from the Sorg lab at WSU Vancouver, on WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27th, from 6 – 8pm..!

WHAT:
Remembering is who we become
How neurogenetics influence our preferences, memories and personalities…
Kindra Crick and John Harkness
WHEN:
WEDNESDAY, January 27, 2016, 6 – 8pm
WHERE:
Velo Cult, 1969 NE 42nd Avenue, Portland, OR
Velo Cult is ALL AGES, and serves excellent beer, wine, coffee, tea and soda. AND they donate $1/pint sold during the event to art and neuroscience outreach through nwnoggin.org…

NW Noggin @ He La High School
2015-12-11 10:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | He La High School, 9105 NE 9th St, Vancouver, WA, 98664, United States
WHAT:
NW Noggin “Art and Brain Symposium” @ He La High School
WHEN:
Friday, December 11, 10am – 2pm
WHERE:
He La High School, 9105 NE 9th Street, Vancouver, WA 98664
We are invited to bring brains and art projects to He La High School on Friday, December 11, from 10am – 2pm!
The more the merrier, as this will involve lots of kids. Students will rotate between a library, where some of us will talk to them about brains for about 20 minutes/group, and a lab, where some of us will introduce real brains that students can examine and hold up close. We’ll likely have a third opportunity for students to try their hand at a brain-related art project as well…

Noggin @ WSUV Kindergarten!
2015-12-10 10:45 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WSU Vancouver
We’re heading to the WSU Vancouver campus kindergarten this morning! The students (4 and 5) are currently engaged in what’s called the “Mind Up” program – according to Kelsey Day, their teacher, she has “already been talking to the children about the frontal cortex, the amygdala, and the hypothalamus..!”

We should come prepared to talk/answer questions about these regions and how they develop and interact (e.g., how you have strong feelings/drives related to subcortical structures like amygdala, and require frontal lobe networks – under construction! – to inhibit… 🙂

Jeff will bring a big drawing of the brain, with some subcortical structures illustrated (particularly the amygdala and nucleus accumbens) – then we can ask students (maybe in small groups?) to tell us when they’ve felt strong feelings (really angry, or really motivated) – and whether they were able to control their feelings or not. We can write down their examples on post-it notes and place those experiences directly on the areas of the brain involved.

The class meets in the McClaskey Building, Room 136.

Cheers!
Bill

Fort Vancouver Outreach
2015-12-04 07:00 - 12:00, 2015-11-20 07:00 - 12:00, 2015-11-13 07:00 - 12:00, 2015-11-06 07:30 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Fort Vancouver High School, 5700 E 18th St, Vancouver, WA, 98661, United States
Rosie Salice, Nathan Allen and Angela Gonzalez from WSU Vancouver, and Allie Clark from PSU, are leading a committed group of early rising Noggin volunteers to deliver curricula they have developed on the brain and behavior to EIGHT full classrooms at Fort Vancouver High School…

They have been prepping materials and strategizing for several weeks now at the McMenamin’s Chapel Pub in NE Portland. They’ll be teaching at Fort from 7:30am – noon on four Fridays…

In Dialogue: Drugs, Hallucinations, Vision
2015-11-08 11:30 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Portland Art Museum
IN DIALOGUE: ART, DRUGS, AND THE NATURE OF SEEING
November 8, 2015 @ 11:30 am – 1:30 pm
Portland Art Museum, Trustee Room, Mark Building
Certain drugs provoke compelling visual distortions and hallucinations, increase the intensity and salience of what you perceive, depress areas of the brain that let you introspect, and experience a personal sense of self, and make the ordinary stand out powerfully as never before. Artists have intuitively manipulated these same systems to communicate emotional states and visual phenomena since first putting pigment on a cave wall. This session will bring together landscape art, hallucination, and the science of perception.
A graduate of OHSU’s Behavioral Neuroscience program, Bill Griesar, PhD, teaches neuroscience at Portland State University and WSU Vancouver. Jeff Leake holds an MA in Fine Arts from UC Davis and a BA in Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute. Bill and Jeff currently coteach an Art and the Brain course at WSU Vancouver and at PSU, providing reference to visual arts and phenomena in relation to neuroscience. They also founded the volunteer art and neuroscience outreach program, NW Noggin, and routinely bring college students and brains to K-12 classrooms in Portland and Vancouver Public Schools.

NW Noggin presents: PeaceHealth conference @ WSU Vancouver
2015-11-07 07:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WSU Vancouver
Bill Griesar, Jeff Leake, Michael Miller (PSU), James Reling (PSU), Lizzy Tremaine (PSU) and Brittany Wouden (WSUV) will present a collaborative 30 minute talk at the Jay D. Miller Conference at WSU Vancouver, which is aimed at providing health care professionals with practical information on neuroscience…
Brittany Wouden will introduce her innovative myBrain! program, which lets viewers see a brain superimposed on an image of their own head, and allows them to explore structure/function relationships…

Lizzy Tremaine will present data she acquired using the myBrain! app during our summer outreach effort through MESA at WSU Vancouver…
We believe that this program offers great promise for improving understanding of the brain and behavior, not only for students, but also for patients and patients’ families when trying to understand complex medical conditions involving the nervous system…
The conference will take place at WSU Vancouver…
Dengerink Administration Building-Cafeteria

BRAINS @ the Portland Art Museum
2015-11-05 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Portland Art Museum
Our volunteers will present brains, and discuss the neurophysiological basis of visual perception in the NW Noggin designed “Nature of Seeing Gallery” at the Portland Art Museum…

Fort Vancouver outreach planning @ Chapel Pub!
2015-11-01 17:30 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Chapel Pub
Come join us for a pub planning session with Biology teachers from Clark County’s Fort Vancouver High School. We’re planning a series of four fall visits to classrooms at Fort, on November 6, 15, 24 and December 4th, from 7:30am – 12:05pm
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NW Noggin @ Velo Cult
2015-10-29 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Velo Cult Bike Shop, 1969 NE 42nd, Portland, OR
Phil Uribe, a graduate student in Neuroscience from WSU Vancouver, and Kimberly Cordray, an art practices student from Portland State University, will tickle your ears with an auditory presentation at Velo Cult… 🙂
Beer, cider, and soda are available for purchase. No purchase is required; however $1/pint sold supports outreach efforts in the community.

P:ear outreach class
2015-10-28 11:45 - 12:45, 2015-10-21 11:45 - 12:45, 2015-10-14 11:45 - 12:45, 2015-10-07 11:45 - 12:45 (America/Los_Angeles) | P:ear, 338 NW 6th Ave, Portland, OR, 97209, United States

Fort Vancouver outreach planning @ Chapel Pub!
2015-10-25 17:30 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Chapel Pub
Come join us for a pub planning session with Biology teachers from Clark County’s Fort Vancouver High School. We’re planning a series of four fall visits to classrooms at Fort, on November 6, 15, 24 and December 4th, from 7:30am – 12:05pm…

Society for Neuroscience conference
2015-10-16 08:00 - 2015-10-21 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | OR
Bill and Jeff will present an outreach poster in Chicago…

WSU Vancouver Grad Night
2015-10-13 17:30 - 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | WSU Vancouver
NW Noggin volunteers will introduce opportunities for outreach to undergraduates at WSU Vancouver!

Seeing Nature opens @ PAM
2015-10-10 | Portland Art Museum
NW Noggin is honored to work alongside the Portland Art Museum in developing interpretive materials, and gallery descriptions, for visitors to the “Seeing Nature” exhibit. The exhibit runs from October 10 – January 10…

Oregon Arts Education Conference
2015-10-09 - 2015-10-10 | OR
Jeff and Bill will present a two hour workshop for arts educators on Friday, October 9th, from 8 – 10am, in Ashland, OR…

P:ear planning meeting at P:ear
2015-10-03 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | P:ear, 338 NW 6th Ave, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
Following the mandatory training, volunteers will meet to discuss and prepare our first outreach class session…

Mandatory volunteer training for P:ear volunteers
2015-10-03 09:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | P:ear, 338 NW 6th Ave, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
For volunteers preparing outreach coursework for P:ear students in October, there is a mandatory training at P:ear on Saturday, October 3. We’ll follow the training with a planning meeting for our first outreach visit…

NW Noggin "Ales & Ideas" lecture in Astoria!
2015-10-01 18:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Fort George Brewery, 1483 Duane St, Astoria, OR, 97103, United States
Bill Griesar and Jeff Leake will present on “The Art and Science of Legal Highs” (mostly alcohol) – at the Fort George Brewery in Astoria, Oregon!

Have a Vortex IPA and join us…

"Alive Inside" memory and music night at WSUV
2015-09-22 18:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | WSU Vancouver
The movie “Alive Inside!” will be shown in the WSU Vancouver auditorium. We’ll follow the screening with a panel of NW Noggin volunteers. Here’s a complete list of our confirmed panel participants…

Bill Griesar, Instructor and Outreach Coordinator, Neuroscience, WSU Vancouver; Neuroscience Director, nwnoggin.org
Jeff Leake, artist, Instructor and Outreach Coordinator, Neuroscience, WSU Vancouver; Arts Director, nwnoggin.org
Megan Slaker, graduate student, Neuroscience, WSU Vancouver (research interests: memory, drugs, peri-neuronal nets)
John Harkness, post-doctoral student, Neuroscience, WSU Vancouver (research interests: genes, drugs, brains, behavior)
Angela Johnson, graduate of WSU Vancouver, Neuroscience outreach participant, Alzheimer’s caregiver
Sarah Neveux, graduate of WSU Vancouver, Neuroscience outreach participant
Angela Gonzalez, undergraduate in Neuroscience, WSU Vancouver, Neuroscience outreach participant

Jeff and I will start with general comments about the brain and behavior, development and decline, and why music and art might provoke such powerful emotions and help to improve mood, engagement and perhaps bring out some explicit memories, depending on the damage already suffered by individual patients with AD.

Our panelists will also introduce themselves, and their own areas of expertise. Questions from the audience (addressed to any of us) are very welcome about any topic related to dementia, the brain, behavior, genes, drugs, music or art… 🙂

We’ll also have real brains (extra brains!) to examine up close.

Chapel Pub Planning for Fort Vancouver High
2015-09-16 17:00 - 18:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Chapel Pub
Volunteers and site coordinators for our series of 4 – 6 outreach visits to biology classrooms at Fort Vancouver High School are meeting to plan classes and activities at the McMenamin’s Chapel Pub in NE Portland…
Fort biology teachers will join us there too.

Creative Science K-8
2015-09-16 12:00 - 14:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Creative Science (PPS) K-8, 1231 SE 92nd Ave, Portland, OR, 97216, United States
Volunteers will discuss brain development with middle school students. What skills do students feel they’ve improved over the last year – and where in their brains are network connections changing..?
We’ll bring brains (extra brains!), and Jeff will have a large brain poster and sticky notes for students to paste descriptions of their improving skills…
We did it! Learn more at the link…
Creativity and Science

HeLa High School
2015-09-14 12:35 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | He La High School, 9105 NE 9th St, Vancouver, WA, 98664, United States
A discussion of neurotransmitters…
Volunteers will introduce anatomy and physiology of brain networks/pathways involving specific neurotransmitters, including dopamine, norepinephrine, acetylcholine, serotonin…
