Synapses in San Diego: Noggin @ SfN

In addition to presenting a new Noggin poster at the Public Teaching of Neuroscience:  Outreach session, and another poster at the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) Brain Awareness Campaign Event… POSTER:  Brain Awareness Campaign Event Presentation Time: Saturday, Nov 12, 2016, 2:30 PM – 4:30 PM Location/Room: San Diego Convention Center, Room 16 POSTER:  Public Teaching of…

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Skyhawk Synapses @ Skyridge!

Post written by PSU Psychology undergraduate Allie Clark.  Pictures by Kanani Miyamoto (PNCA), Jessica Patching-Bunch (PSU), and Joey Seuferling (WSU Vancouver)… Noggin returned for three days this week to Skyridge Middle School in Camas, Washington to teach over 250 students about their fascinating brains… OUR PREVIOUS VISIT:  Synaptic Pruning @ Skyridge This…

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Is Your Brain Fractal?

“Fractal geometry is not just a chapter of mathematics, but one that helps Everyman to see the same world differently.”  –  Benoit Mandelbrot A nice, crisp fall evening in Portland, Oregon… Perfect for bicycling to Velo Cult for a pint, along with thought-provoking science and art… Curious folks, including many from Portland…

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Interneurons @ iTech

This week we introduced our depolarizing crowd of Noggin volunteers to 160 high school students at iTech Prep, a Vancouver public school that takes a welcome and familiar STEAM approach to education, “integrating art and design principles into research and problem-based learning…” Our volunteers included Wendy McMakin and Andrew Stanley from Psychology…

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The Art and Neuroscience of Change

NW Noggin presented cutting edge research and art concerning the neuroscience of behavioral change this week at the Portland Art Museum, as part of the Change Connect 4 conference for the Association of Change Management Professionals… High school students from Fort Vancouver High School crafted diverse and colorful neurons from pipe cleaners which hung as a dramatic malleable network during…

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Noggin @ White House Frontiers

“Societies in which we are able to unify ourselves around values and ideals and character and how we treat each other and cooperation and innovation…are gonna be more successful than societies that don’t” -Barack Obama The White House Frontiers Conference brought together some of the world’s leading innovators in Pittsburgh this week to…

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Parietal Party in the PSU Park

Post by Noggin volunteer and PSU Psychology undergraduate Allie Clark… This week the NW Noggin brains took a field trip from their usual home at WSU Vancouver to Portland’s Park Blocks! The brains were the stars of the show at the PSU Neuroscience Club’s booth for Portland State’s annual Party in the Park, a…

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