Post by Becky Martinez, undergraduate in Psychology pursuing a minor in Interdisciplinary Neuroscience at Portland State University. Becky is currently an undergraduate research assistant at the Advancing Research in Pediatric Pain (ARPP) Lab at Oregon Health and Sciences University. Time for a story! When 14-year-old Ralphie is playing football, he…
Post by Frederick Schemel, undergraduate in Psychology pursuing an Interdisciplinary Neuroscience minor at Portland State University. Frederick is currently a research assistant in the Developmental Brain Imaging Lab (DBIL) run by Dr. Bonnie Nagel in the Department of Psychiatry at Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU). March of the Multitudes Neuroscience is not an easy…
We love Fort Vancouver! We’ve visited Fort for close to a decade… …always arriving early, usually in winter, and mostly in the dark. First period started at 7:25am – far too early for healthy adolescent brain development, and we’ve spent years presenting, discussing and exploring the extensive neuroscience research illustrating…
Post by Zach Salcido, undergraduate in Psychology pursuing an Interdisciplinary Neuroscience minor at Portland State University. Zach is a valued outreach participant in Noggin K-12 school visits around the Pacific Northwest, including those in Oregon City and Vancouver Public Schools. “We live in an age where there is a firehose…
Ahhh…elementary school! The questions are the best! Northwest Noggin volunteers took the Interstate Bridge over the Columbia River north to Vancouver Public Schools, for a morning with energetic students at Eleanor Roosevelt Elementary. Our community-engaged participants included Bradley Marxmiller and Dr. Denesa Lockwood from OHSU, along with Justin Benner, Brin…
It’s February, and we are DEEP into our winter outreach schedule, which this term reaches from Portland and Vancouver, Corvallis and the Oregon State Capitol – all the way to Washington DC! Some huge thanks: our extensive all-volunteer efforts received welcome boxes of pipe cleaners, PLA filament and other art…
We did it! Northwest Noggin was honored and stoked by an invitation from Oregon State Senator Kim Thatcher to present neuroscience research on the clear community and individual health benefits of making standard time – not daylight savings time – permanent in Oregon. Our remarkable undergraduate and graduate students at…
Northwest Noggin returns to DC! This month we are honored to join Oregon’s Roundhouse Foundation along with a host of incredible rural, arts and tribal representatives at the National Arts Summit in Washington DC, organized by the National Endowment for the Arts and the White House Office of Domestic Policy! “This…
Our interdisciplinary neuroscience undergrads and faculty were BUSY this fall, from local public schools and Boise conferences to OHSU research labs and the halls of Congress! Here are the latest interdisciplinary neuroscience undergraduate posts from our Noggin volunteers, covering research on houselessness and sleep, childhood development, youth corrections, artificial intelligence,…
Post by Natalie Robison (she/her), undergraduate in Biology at Portland State University pursuing an Interdisciplinary Neuroscience minor. Did you know that, by some measures, a brain has just as many glial cells as it does neurons? LEARN MORE: The search for true numbers of neurons and glial cells in the…