NW Noggin returned to Susie Ridgeway’s science classroom at Henrietta Lacks High School (HeLa High) in Vancouver this week, after our two previously scheduled visits were scuttled by snowpocalypses..! We assembled quite a crowd of volunteers educators, including Sulema Rodriguez, Allana Zuccaro, Jessica Patching-Bunch and Kayla Stippich from Psychology at Portland…
The Society for Neuroscience conference will bring 30,000 researchers to Washington DC this November (11/11 – 11/15), including many of our NW Noggin (nwnoggin.org) outreach volunteers. NW Noggin brings together graduate and undergraduate collaborators from the Pacific Northwest, who since 2012 have developed and delivered their own arts-integrated instruction on the brain and…
Noggin is returning to P:ear, a remarkable Portland organization aimed at building positive relationships with homeless and transitional youth through education, art and recreation to affirm their personal worth and help them create more meaningful and healthier lives… We are excited to communicate science through the extraordinary volunteer efforts of our talented graduate…
Ram Kandasamy from WSU Vancouver presents research on cannabinoids and chronic pain along with Portland musicians Bob Desaulniers and Tony Remple at the incomparable Velo Cult Bicycle Repair Shop and Pub! UPDATE: Click here for pics, description and music links from this Noggin Velo event! VELO CULT FLYER (pdf): Chronic Pain & Mary Jane WHAT: Chronic Pain &…
We’re a 501(c)(3) nonprofit! Northwest Noggin received federal 501(c)(3) status on November 15, 2016. Contributions – which let us purchase sheep brains, pipe cleaners, electrodes and modeling clay for outreach, plus send our graduate and undergraduate volunteers from Portland State University, Oregon Health & Sciences University and other area institutions to public schools,…
Since November 2015, the artists Jeff Leake and Kindra Crick have been working together with NW Noggin, a Pacific Northwest neuroscience outreach group. In Cerebral Wilderness, they examine memory, place and its impact on one’s inner and outer identity. While Leake looks outward toward the horizon, depicting remembered and invented landscapes, Crick’s work turns inward by…
“My old addiction, changed the wiring in my brain…” – from “Chet Baker’s Unsung Swan Song,” by David Wilcox Compelling NW Noggin outreach by artist Kindra Crick and neuroscience postdoc Dr. John Harkness is featured in an article by Kindra in the November issue of Interalia Magazine, an online publication dedicated to the interactions between the arts, sciences and…
Another eager crowd of Noggin volunteers arrived at iTech Prep this afternoon, to talk synapses, receptors and drugs with 160 sharp high school students we met last week… Today we also welcomed Ram Kandasamy, a graduate student in Mike Morgan’s lab at WSU Vancouver, and post doc Dr. John Harkness…
“Fractal geometry is not just a chapter of mathematics, but one that helps Everyman to see the same world differently.” – Benoit Mandelbrot A nice, crisp fall evening in Portland, Oregon… Perfect for bicycling to Velo Cult for a pint, along with thought-provoking science and art… Curious folks, including many from Portland…
NW Noggin presented cutting edge research and art concerning the neuroscience of behavioral change this week at the Portland Art Museum, as part of the Change Connect 4 conference for the Association of Change Management Professionals… High school students from Fort Vancouver High School crafted diverse and colorful neurons from pipe cleaners which hung as a dramatic malleable network during…