All images and 4K video by Alex Voigt… Our third and final day at Bonny Slope Elementary, this time with well over 200 2nd and 3rd graders! In the service of equity, our Spy, Scout, Scribe, Guard, Councilor and Wise Leader have introduced brains and art projects to every student in the school… Our…
Another day at Bonny Slope Elementary, this time with 200 4th and 5th grade students eager to learn about their Wise Leader (frontal lobe cortex), and their Spy (occipital lobe), Scout (temporal lobe), Councilor of Spatial Awareness (parietal lobe), Scribe (their hippocampus, in their medial temporal lobe), and Guard (that threat-sensitive,…
Tonight Noggin offered visitors to the Newmark Theater a generous spread of colorful neurons, real brains, cannabis strain guides, and even home-baked brownies (the regular kind, thanks to Brianna Jacobs and Tara Leake)..! This was the most popular, practically sold out lecture of Brain Awareness Season, and folks arrived early to admire Noggin neurons,…
All images and video by Alex Voigt… Five exceptionally creative Noggin participants debuted a play at Bonny Slope Elementary School, for kindergartners and first graders eager to learn about the various parts of their brains..! Erin McConnell, Jacob Schoen, Penny Allen and Brianna Jacobs from Portland State University, and Matty McCasland from…
Thanks to Kate Stout of the OHSU Brain Institute, NW Noggin had plenty of space on Monday night, for brains, games, and our eager volunteers from Portland State University, and WSUV… We were there to learn about how video games might improve cognitive performance, from Adam Gazzaley, a professor of Neurology, Physiology and…
We returned to Skyridge Middle School last Friday, this time for Raeleen Gilman’s classes. Courtney Miskell, Joseph Seuferling, Nathan Allen, Rosie Salice from Washington State University Vancouver, and Ellena Rosenthal from Portland State University joined us for a day of conversation about brains and behavior with four well informed groups of…
NW Noggin is excited to have arranged stipends from Bonny Slope Elementary in Beaverton Public Schools, for five experienced outreach experts to present three days of brains, art and theater to about 600 K-5 students! WE DID IT! The Land of Cerebrum Erin McConnell, Brianna Jacobs, Jacon Schoen and Penny…
PSU speech-language pathology graduate student Lauren Ficker and media artist Cheryl Green take you on a multi-media tour of the brain and examine ways the community can better support peers with traumatic brain injury… WHAT: Traumatic Brain Injury: Comedy, Communication, Community WHO: Lauren Ficker (PSU) and Cheryl Green (http://whoamitostopit.com) WHEN:…
The OHSU Brain Institute kicked off their 16th annual Brain Awareness Season with a lecture by neuroscientist Kathy Grant on alcohol and the brain. NW Noggin volunteers, many from the active Neuroscience Club at PSU, were eager to help explain the actions and effects of this popular drug… Upcoming OHSU lectures promise to…
Our enthusiastic Noggin crew joined Ms. Morrisey and three of her very knowledgeable middle school classes this last Friday from 9:20 to 1:50. The students were well prepared with questions, and already knew a surprising amount about the brain. We gamely discussed everything from why we sleep and dream, to what…