Ten Noggin volunteers visited Henrietta Lacks High School in Vancouver this week, with a well-traveled bucket of human brains, to talk neuroscience with several hundred students curious about everything from gender identity, music and memory, to anxiety, brain eating amoebas and sleep… (Picture by Alex Voigt) Our brainy team brought in several undergraduates from Portland State University (during…
An enthusiastic band of Noggin volunteers met an exuberant and well-informed classroom of 4 and 5 years olds this morning, who had been eagerly learning, and singing, about their changing brains! Kindergarten teacher Kelsey Day welcomed us into her friendly classroom at WSU Vancouver, where students already knew all about…
Friday marked the exciting and yet sorrowful conclusion of NW Noggin’s program at Fort Vancouver High School. We are going to miss our students! Volunteers started slow with a brief re-cap of brain lobe function as well as neuroanatomy terms that assist in navigating the brain, such as rostral and…
NW Noggin partnered with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra to present on music and the brain on Thursday, December 3rd, at the Brickstone Ballroom in downtown Vancouver… We arrived before dawn, to set up our brain display, and enjoy an excellent breakfast… Both the Brickstone and Symphony made us feel exceptionally welcome, with table centerpieces…
NWNOGGIN joined Sarah Morgan and her class of enthusiastic Art in the Elementary School students at Portland State University this week to discuss the importance of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Mathematics) education and the power of art in education. Joseph Cornell “Habitat Group for a Shooting Gallery” We talked…
NW Noggin returned for our third Trapper Friday at Fort Vancouver High School, where at first we saw (unsurprisingly, at 7:30am ?) a sea of tired faces. However, the excitement grew as students realized that “the brain people are back!” Some students, of course, still weren’t impressed. Yet as the tardy bell rang, one…
NW Noggin was just awarded $5000 from the US Bank Foundation to continue our STEAM outreach work in Portland and Vancouver. The money will allow us to purchase art supplies, sheep brains, and other educational items critical to our efforts, and better support our student participants from WSU Vancouver, PSU, OHSU and…
Post written by Rosie Salice, one of the NW Noggin undergraduate teaching leads at Fort Vancouver… We focused on neurons and synapses in our second week at Fort Vancouver High School, introducing nine separate classes to the “classical” neurotransmitters, and their roles in alertness, movement, motivation, and aspects of cognition… Students…
Jeff Leake and Bill Griesar presented a two hour workshop on art, drugs and the visual brain at the Portland Art Museum on Sunday, as part of the “In Dialogue” series associated with the “Seeing Nature” exhibit, which runs through January 10, 2016… Here are the slides from the talk, which…
Early Friday morning, a host of NW Noggin volunteers converged on Fort Vancouver High School with one thing on their minds: Brains! It was the first in a series of four outreach sessions planned for the school over the next month, and scores of students jumped at the chance to…