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…
Our NW Noggin participants delivered a sunrise presentation at WSU Vancouver this morning, as part of the Jay D. Miller Conference on best practices in health communication for the Neuroscience caregiver… The conference was supported by WSU Vancouver, and organized by PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center, with a focus on faculty in…
We carried our well-sealed bucket of brains to the Portland Art Museum on Thursday night, for animated discussions about vision and art in our gallery space on “The Nature of Seeing…” We promised no hazardous spills amongst the Morans and Monets, and arrived with far less formaldehyde than, for example, artist Damien Hirst… 🙂 We…
It was easy to hear the large, excited crowd that gathered under the bikes at Velo Cult on Thursday evening, for a lively presentation on audition and the artistry of sound… Phil Uribe, a graduate student in Neuroscience from WSU Vancouver, and Kimberly Cordray, an Arts Practices major from PSU, worked together to inform the audience…
We enjoyed our last fall gathering at P:ear today, with great food, and great questions from enthusiastic young people curious to learn more about the brain… We brought along the popular Mindflex Duel, and explained the electrical nature of information flow along networks of linked neurons, and how thinking about different topics, or engaging…
Our volunteer art and brain educators from PSU, WSU Vancouver and PNCA returned to P:ear this week, this time with donated neuroscience textbooks, and cool and cerebral screen printing designs… Carrie Miyamoto from PNCA brought along her metal frames, and spent a busy few hours teaching folks at P:ear how to spread…
In light of our recent work with the Portland Art Museum, we decided to take our trusty pipe cleaner neuron down to the Art Institute of Chicago. We were in the city attending the 2015 Society for Neuroscience conference, and enjoyed an afternoon re-imagining some famous works of art. LEARN MORE:…
Our well-traveled pipe cleaner neuron took a busy tour of SfN this weekend, thanks to travel support from the Vancouver branch campus of WSU, and drew in many curious conference attendees… We began with a special Brain Awareness poster session on Saturday, devoted to “Sparking Connections Through Brain Awareness Around the Globe…”…
Eight volunteers from PSU, PNCA and WSUV have been dropping by P:ear at lunchtime to talk about brains, make beaded neurons, draw sulci and gyri, and examine real human cerebrums up close… We’ve been part of “Science Wednesdays” at this much valued “safe” space for homeless youth in downtown Portland, and have enjoyed…
Jeff Leake and Bill Griesar head to Chicago this week to present a poster on NW Noggin STEAM outreach efforts in both formal and informal settings – everything from K-12 schools to theaters, art museums, breweries, conferences, homeless youth outreach centers, and bike shop pubs 🙂 We’ll present at the…