By Erin McConnell, Kayla Townsley & Bill Griesar Resource Council members (Erin, Kayla) for assessment NW Noggin wants to continually improve outreach, to make it more educational, thought-provoking, and engaging for a wide range of audiences. In order to do so, we rely on input and feedback from our community partners, as…
NW Noggin presented a workshop for the Washington State Psychological Association (WSPA) on Saturday, September 10 at North Seattle Community College. A second workshop will be presented at WSU Vancouver in 2017 (date/time TBD)… WORKSHOP SYLLABUS FROM SEPTEMBER (2 CE): WSPA Art Pain and Cannabinoids September 2016 Cannabis sativa from Vienna Dioscurides, 512 AD Bill Griesar,…
Science thrives, community builds, and people learn when scientists get together with graduates and undergraduates from area universities to talk about research. The annual Oregon & Southwest Washington Chapter meeting for the Society for Neuroscience took place at the McMenamin’s Edgefield this weekend, and there were many opportunities for brain and social network enhancement… 🙂…
Thanks to Katie Sale of the American Brain Coalition, our NW Noggin graduates and undergraduates from WSU Vancouver, Portland State University and OHSU were invited to spend our last East Coast morning enjoying art, science and history at the National Institutes of Health, a sprawling, 300+ acre campus of federal research agencies in Bethesda,…
NW Noggin was invited, as the guest of both the Neuroscience and the Science, Technology, Engineering, Art & Mathematics (STEAM) caucuses in the US House of Representatives, to present a “Brains + Art” briefing in April, 2016! READ MORE: NW Noggin House briefing invitation – 4-27-16 Image by Jeff Leake and Alex Voigt (2016) Three of…
This past Thursday March 10th, NW Noggin and Velo Cult Bike Shop presented Traumatic Brain Injury: Comedy, Communication, Community. The alliterative title might have had a few curious attendees scratching their noggins… Just what does comedy have to do with TBI?! And what does community have to do with an individual’s TBI?? Well,…
PSU speech-language pathology graduate student Lauren Ficker and media artist Cheryl Green take you on a multi-media tour of the brain and examine ways the community can better support peers with traumatic brain injury… WHAT: Traumatic Brain Injury: Comedy, Communication, Community WHO: Lauren Ficker (PSU) and Cheryl Green (http://whoamitostopit.com) WHEN:…
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…
Fresh off a long drive from a conference workshop in Ashland, and a shorter bike ride from Northeast Portland, Jeff and Bill had the exciting opportunity to attend the Portland Art Museum member opening of “Seeing Nature,” an extraordinary exhibit of landscape masterworks from the Paul G. Allen Family Collection… We headed first to…
By Elena Mahrt, Zoology/Neuroscience @ Washington State University Vancouver What a beautiful and terrifying sound! It wavered slightly, as if unsure it should be heard. But after a few moments it smoothed into a steady melody. What was this sound, you ask? Why, it was the sound of my own voice! I…