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SUMMARY:Save Grad Education Rally @ OHSU!
DESCRIPTION:WHAT: Rally to support grad students\, and oppose the grad student tax \nWHERE: Courtyard outside MacKenzie Hall\, OHSU\, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road\, Portland\, OR 97238 \nWHEN: Wednesday\, December 6\, 2017\, 12:00 – 12:30pm \n \nRepublicans in Congress have targeted graduate education\, threatening to tax tuition waivers to pay for tax cuts for wealthy donors and corporations\, making it difficult for innovative biomedical research to continue in the United States. Join grad students and supporters to defend research\, education and outreach… \nLEARN MORE: Scientists Press Senate to Preserve Higher Education Tax Provisions \nLEARN MORE: OHSU Letter to the Conference Committee \nLEARN MORE: Feeling stressed? \n \nMore from the graduate students at OHSU\, many of whom contribute their time\, expertise and energy in our public schools and community venues as outreach volunteers… \nThe Senate recently passed its tax reform bill meaning that the House and Senate will now work together on a conference committee to combine the two versions of the tax bill into a single bill designed to be passed by both houses of Congress. The House’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act contains a repeal of Section 117 (d)\, which makes graduate tuition tax-free\, although the Senate version does not. If the tuition waivers that graduate students currently receive are considered taxable income\, as they are in the House version of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act\, graduate school would become unattainable for many\, if not most\, students.   \nThe current average annual stipend for graduate students at OHSU is $30\,000.  If tuition waivers are classified as taxable income\, graduate students will see their taxes increase by at least 100%\, and likely substantially more. Treating graduate student income as if it were $60-90\,000 by removing the waiver would increase the tax burden so significantly that many students would be forced to drop out.  Additionally\, based on their higher tax bracket\, students would be ineligible for need-based aid.  But the impact of this policy change is even further reaching.  Without Section 117 (d)\, the ability to attract new students into Science\, Technology\, Engineering\, and Mathematics (STEM) careers would be severely compromised and groundbreaking research interrupted. \nThe reconciliation of the tax bills begins this week\, meaning that nothing is finalized yet.  There is still a chance that the final bill could include the repeal of Section 117 (d)\, which is where we come in. \n \nFive things you can do right now! \n\nAttend the rally!\nCall and email Rep. Greg Walden* (southeastern Oregon).  He is a member of the Republican leadership\, chair of the most powerful committee (Energy & Commerce)\, and also has the potential to be on the conference committee that will reconcile the two versions of the bill.\nCall and email your U.S. Senator to ask that they continue to advocate for Section 117 (d)\nCall and email your U.S. Representative\nSign our letter to the conference committee: OHSU Letter to the Conference Committee\n\n\nNOTE: Our graduate students brought brain research and art projects to students from SIX eastern Oregon counties last spring in La Grande\, in Greg Walden’s congressional district\, on an entirely volunteer basis. Learn more…\n\nBlue Mountain Brains!\n \nTAKE MORE ACTION: Register to vote in Oregon and Washington \nLEARN MORE: What Calling Congress Achieves
URL:https://nwnoggin.org/event/save-grad-education-rally-ohsu/
LOCATION:OHSU\, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road\, Portland\, OR\, 97239-3098\, United States
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SUMMARY:Noggin @ Minter Bridge Elementary!
DESCRIPTION:WHAT: Noggin visit to Minter Bridge Elementary w/90 4th & 5th graders \nWHERE: Minter Bridge Elementary\, 1750 SE Jacquelin Dr\, Hillsboro\, OR 97123 \nWHEN: Thursday\, December 7\, 2017\, 8:00am – 11:30am \nTwo sessions\, first one beginning at 8:30am \nThe last school visit of the season! Come join us and see our brand new donated brain too! \n \nPlease RSVP to bgriesar@nwnoggin.org and jleake@nwnoggin.org \nCOMMITTED PARTICIPANTS\nJessica Patching-Bunch\, OHSU/Noggin Resource Council\nJesse Hamlin\, PSU/Noggin Resource Council\nGaile Parker\, PSU/Noggin Resource Council\nAngela Hendrix\, Noggin Resource Council\nSulema Rodriguez\, PSU/BUILD EXITO/Noggin Resource Council\nDeza’Rae Collins\, PSU/BUILD EXITO \nMeet at the school office
URL:https://nwnoggin.org/event/noggin-minter-bridge-elementary/
LOCATION:Minter Bridge Elementary\, 1750 SE Jacquelin Dr\, Hillsboro\, OR\, 97123\, United States
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SUMMARY:Spirit Mountain Community Fund Award Ceremony!
DESCRIPTION:NW Noggin is thrilled and honored to receive a grant from the Confederated Tribes of Grande Ronde\, a sovereign Native American nation in north-central Oregon\, for our art and neuroscience outreach proposal “Synapses & Stories:  Coyote\, Grizzly and their Brains!”  \nWe are invited to the Grande Ronde Tribal campus for a grant presentation ceremony with the Board of Trustees and Tribal Council on Wednesday\, December 13. \nUPDATE: Learn more at the link!\nSynapses & Stories\n \nWHAT: Spirit Mountain Community grant presentation ceremony \nWHERE: Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Community of Oregon Campus\, Governance Building\, 9615 Grand Ronde Road\, Grand Ronde\, OR 97347 \nWHEN: Wednesday\, December 13\, 2017\, 1:30 – 3:00pm \n \nLEARN MORE: The Grand Ronde Story \nLEARN MORE: Oregon Encyclopedia; the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde \nLEARN MORE: Grande Ronde Lesson Plan on Stories & Myths \nThe Grande Ronde seal\, representing 27 confederated tribes (including the Umpqua\, Molalla\, Rogue River\, Kalapuya\, and Shasta)\, reminded us of a neuron’s cell body (or soma) with vivid feather dendrites\, embodying a shared human drive to synapse and connect. \n \nWe crafted a neuron in the seal’s colors as a gift and thank you… \n \nWe will bring 12 Portland/Vancouver area undergraduates and graduates studying neuroscience and art to the Lincoln County School District this spring (potentially Toledo Elementary and Siletz Valley) for a series of three\, day long visits aimed at making connections between figures in Grande Ronde tribal stories (including Coyote\, Crow and Grizzly) and their relevant neuroanatomy… \n \nCorvus Callosum by Sienna Morris \nMany students struggle with academic achievement\, and become disenchanted with school. There is tremendous regional and national need to develop academic programs and approaches that successfully engage “academic priority” students\, and offer access to the social and economic benefits of further education. Our efforts to bring together “near peers\,” including undergraduates in science and art\, to collaborate with graduate students on creating novel\, innovative\, multidisciplinary methods of explaining complex ideas in neuroscience\, exposes these students to scientists and artists at various stages of their careers. \n \nOur volunteers will bring real brains\, both animal and human\, into the classroom\, ask students what they know already about what parts of the brain do\, participate in storytelling\, and consider how various skills and characteristics relate to developing networks of neurons. We’ll engage in multiple art projects\, including neuron building and brain maps\, to allow students to explore these ideas further. \n \nLEARN MORE:  Birds have primate-like numbers of neurons in the forebrain \nWe have done this before\, successfully –   see Noggin Bloggin for details. Students will learn structure/function relationships\, discover educational and career options in neuroscience and art\, and get engaged in big questions about how our brains work and make us who we are. \nAttending the ceremony \nBill Griesar\, PSU/OHSU/NW Noggin Neuroscience Coordinator\nJoey Seuferling\, Noggin Resource Council member\nSulema Rodriguez\, PSU/NIH BUILD EXITO/Noggin Resource Council member
URL:https://nwnoggin.org/event/spirit-mountain-community-fund-ceremony/
LOCATION:Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Community of Oregon Campus\, Governance Building\, 9615 Grand Ronde Road\, Grand Ronde\, OR\, 97347\, United States
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