Brief: Outreach Group Spreads Love of Science in the Nation’s Capital Source: Society for Neuroscience With the goal of sharing the joy of science with the world, about two dozen volunteers from the Northwest Neuroscience Outreach Group (Growing in Networks), or NW NOGGIN, came to Washington, DC, recently for a week…
What do prairie voles have to do with heavy drinking..? WHAT: “The Unpredictable Science of Drinking Too Much,” presented by Andrey Ryabinin (OHSU Behavioral Neuroscience) and Rob Oberdorfer & The Neutral Spirits (members of Ages and Ages) WHEN: First Thursday, July 7th, 2016 WHERE: VELO CULT, 1969 NE 42nd Avenue,…
(Alliteration by Noggin volunteer Austin Howard!) School’s out – but our Noggin volunteers won’t slow down! We kicked off a beautiful Northwest summer weekend in Vancouver, Washington, at the Healthy Kids Fair at Legacy Salmon Creek… Lynette Wolf, Austin Howard, Jessica Patching-Bunch, Gaile Parker and Allie Clark from Psychology at Portland State…
This Friday 26 exuberant Skyview High School students made the trek from Vancouver to Portland to join us at the Portland Art Museum for an afternoon of art and science. We began by discussing how all of our students were already equipped with the knowledge necessary to address any artwork they…
After a week of projects and activities with our grads and undergrads from Portland State University, Oregon Health & Science University, and WSU Vancouver, we hit the road for field trips! We’d already enjoyed an exciting introduction to the brain on Tuesday… And creative neuron printmaking with artist Carrie Miyamoto and artist/neuroscience…
We kicked off four days of NW Noggin outreach excitement this morning at Skyview High School, just down the road from WSU Vancouver… GEAR UP, a federal program aimed at preparing low income students for college, offered stipends to five practiced Noggin participants, including Gaile Parker from Psychology at Portland State University, Carrie…
For the last four years, our Pacific Northwest Noggin volunteers, developing experts in neuroscience, psychology, anthropology, and the arts, have collaborated, and partnered with public schools, museums, libraries, hospitals, symphonies, homeless youth centers, drug rehabilitation clinics, and bicycle shop pubs… Even Congress, and the White House! We’ve brought Noggin graduates and undergraduates…
Science thrives, community builds, and people learn when scientists get together with graduates and undergraduates from area universities to talk about research. The annual Oregon & Southwest Washington Chapter meeting for the Society for Neuroscience took place at the McMenamin’s Edgefield this weekend, and there were many opportunities for brain and social network enhancement… 
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The Society for Neuroscience just published its Neuroscience Quarterly for Spring 2016, spotlighting creative efforts to engage the public in scientific research and discovery… NW Noggin, and an article co-written by Bill Griesar and Jeff Leake, were highlighted in this latest publication from the world’s largest organization of scientists and physicians devoted to understanding…
Our Noggin team returned to the annual Health Fair at Jefferson High School in North Portland today, to speak with students about brains during lunch..! Students left their plates of food on nearby tables to don gloves and ask many interesting questions about how our brains work. One student was fascinated by the idea of…