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…
NW Noggin will join undergraduates, graduates and faculty from Oregon and Southwest Washington this weekend at the McMenamin’s Edgefield in Troutdale, Oregon, for the annual chapter meeting for the Society of Neuroscience… Topics will include vertebrate vocal circuitry, the role of microRNAs and RNA granules in temporally and spatially regulating gene expression, hippocampal…
Thanks to Katie Sale of the American Brain Coalition, our NW Noggin graduates and undergraduates from WSU Vancouver, Portland State University and OHSU were invited to spend our last East Coast morning enjoying art, science and history at the National Institutes of Health, a sprawling, 300+ acre campus of federal research agencies in Bethesda,…
On an outreach journey that became more extraordinary by the day, beginning with brains and art projects at two DC public schools, and briefings on STEAM education and neuroscience research in both houses of Congress, we gathered Thursday morning outside the gates of the magnificent Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House…
On Thursday evening (4/28/16) NW Noggin joined the Phillips Collection for Brains, Beauty, & Brews, an enjoyable night of neuroscience and art in connection with the Seeing Nature exhibit of Paul Allen’s remarkable private collection of landscape paintings. Above photo by Alex Voigt How did this come about..? In the fall of…
Since December, we have collaborated with the American Brain Coalition, the incredible staff at Rep. Earl Blumenauer and Rep. Suzanne Bonamici’s House offices, the Department of Psychology and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Portland State University, the Chair of the Department of Behavioral Neuroscience and Director of the…
We have never been more proud or excited about the exceptional volunteers we’ve assembled from Portland State University, OHSU, PNCA, and other Northwest campuses as we were during this extraordinary week of Northwest outreach, art and neuroscience education in our nation’s capital… We gathered early Tuesday morning in Northeast DC at the Inspired…
We have the following events confirmed for our outreach participants in Washington DC. We fly there on Monday, April 25th, and leave Saturday, April 30. Noggin folks should plan to arrive EARLY, with ID, to all scheduled appearances! There are security screenings, and often long lines to enter buildings. PRINTABLE SCHEDULE…
Our last spring Noggin Wednesday at P:ear was bittersweet – but mostly sweet! We enjoyed demonstrating an unusually tasty link between neuron structure and function – the role of taste receptor cells, which detect chemicals in food, on our perceptual experience of flavor… Image source Taste receptor cells are found in taste buds, which…