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…
Noggin volunteers generated a little STEAM this week, during a visit to Sarah Morgan’s arts classroom at Portland State University… Art students joined Lauren Wilgus, Austin Howard, Jacob Schoen and Alex Voigt from PSU to discuss how the arts engage and motivate, and allow for personal, relevant, creative expression and exploration of ideas and…
The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) is the world’s largest organization of scientists and physicians devoted to understanding the brain and nervous system. The nonprofit organization, founded in 1969, now has nearly 40,000 members in more than 90 countries and 130 chapters worldwide. Neuronline is the SfN members-only home for learning and…
Our Noggin volunteers returned to Discovery Middle School this Tuesday for more creative art and brains with science teacher Sam Barnhart’s 7th grade classes. Alex Voigt, Erin McConnell, Justin Case, Gil Brady, Jacob Schoen, Jason Koch, Danae Brown, and Kayla Stippich from Portland State, and Rosie Salice and Essence Zundel…
A nice crowd of Noggin volunteers spent their Friday afternoon with science teacher Nina Gross’ enthusiastic 7th grade students at Discovery Middle School in Vancouver. We were guests of Nina’s, and her fellow science teacher Sam Barnhart, whose classes many of us will return to visit next Tuesday… Hilary Frey and Austin Howard of…
Noggin packed the bike house Wednesday, for an informative, entertaining look at how brains encode memories, covering both genetic and “epi-genetic” contributions to why you remember what you remember, and do what you do… Dr. John Harkness, a postdoc in Barbara Sorg’s former Neuroscience lab at WSU Vancouver, teamed up with celebrated…
Thanks to the extraordinary Brain Watch program at Providence St. Vincent Hospital, three high school teachers, one Noggin volunteer, and twelve Noggin high school participants from McCoy Academy, Skyview and Fort Vancouver High Schools witnessed brain surgery today… Angela Fojtik, a Biology teacher at Skyview, brought along Noah Tukhashvili (who…
Join us for an evening with internationally renowned artist Kindra Crick, and Dr. John Harkness from the Sorg lab at WSU Vancouver, on WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27th, from 6 – 8pm..! WHAT: Remembering is who we become How neurogenetics influence our preferences, memories and personalities… Kindra Crick and John Harkness WHEN:…
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…