Our creative Noggin crew, seasoned by a year of brains and art with over 3000 K-12 students, and preparing for more collaborative STEAM outreach this summer, found much to applaud in this final Brain Awareness lecture at Portland’s Newmark Theater… (Photo by Dan Carter @ www.dancarterphoto.com) We gathered many of our art, psychology and neuroscience…
We enjoyed one last spring day with the engaged, informed and insightful students we’ve had the pleasure to work with, and learn from, over four weeks of Monday visits to McCoy Academy. The classroom was packed, as several students had brought along friends – to school! Angela Johnson, a recent graduate of WSU Vancouver, and John Harkness, who is…
We celebrated our first year of free art and science events at Velo Cult this week, with a presentation on psychostimulants and the adolescent brain. Emily Eastwood, a newly minted Ph.D. from OHSU Behavioral Neuroscience joined Tara Williams, an art student at PNCA who creates compelling fungal prints, to talk about mushrooms, and methamphetamine… Velo seemed…
We headed to Woodstock Elementary School in southeast Portland, where teacher Joyce Iliff told us her first grade students were learning about dendrites! Joyce wasn’t kidding – they were a very informed and energetic class of kids… We began by introducing ourselves, and described where we work and study. We also explaining…
How does methamphetamine affect genes, behavior, and development? How does the adolescent brain respond to psychostimulants..? Emily Eastwood from OHSU, and Tara Williams from PNCA, discuss the science – and art – of development and drugs at Velo Cult on Wednesday, May 27th, from 6-8pm… Come join us for this…
We gathered quite a crowd of volunteers at the Newmark Theater in downtown Portland this week, to staff our outreach table, assist the OHSU Brain Institute in collecting surveys, and listen to a remarkable lecture by Robert Stern, an expert on brain injuries and sports at Boston University… Dr. Stern was featured in a…
Our third visit to one of our favorite classrooms, in a converted house on NE MLK… Our dedicated neuro-educator crew from WSU Vancouver and Portland State returned to school on Monday, to talk about synapses, neurotransmitters and drugs… Sarah Loftus from PSU took the lead, using a worksheet she’d designed to introduce…
We enjoyed an artistic science-packed educational evening in the creative surroundings of the Portland Art Museum on Thursday night, as featured speakers for a “Remixing the Museum: STEAM and New Media” event… We were guests of Hana Layson, the School and Teacher Programs Specialist, Kristin Bayans, the Interpretive Media Specialist, and Phillippa Pitts, a…
Once again, thanks to the generosity of the OHSU Brain Institute, we brought our busy outreach volunteers to an extraordinary lecture by Patricia Churchland at the Newmark Theater in downtown Portland this week… We staffed another NW Noggin table, and had great fun introducing theater-goers to the creative joys of building pipe cleaner…
Sarah Neveux from WSU Vancouver Neuroscience took the teaching lead this morning, and focused on the neuron, that key cellular component of the complex networks that make up our remarkable nervous systems… We began by reviewing the cortical lobes, and then delved into a discussion of how the 200 billion or…