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My Pathway to Research

Post by Connie Tran, undergraduate in Biology pursuing an Interdisciplinary Neuroscience minor at Portland State University. Connie is a research assistant in Dr. Martin Schreiber‘s lab in the Donald D. Trunkey Center for Civilian and Combat Casualty Care at OHSU. Connie Tran at her research poster during the PSU BUILD EXITO Summer Research Symposium…

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More Than One Path to Research

Post by Frederick Schemel, undergraduate in Psychology pursuing an Interdisciplinary Neuroscience minor at Portland State University. Frederick is currently a research assistant in the Developmental Brain Imaging Lab (DBIL) run by Dr. Bonnie Nagel in the Department of Psychiatry at Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU). March of the Multitudes Neuroscience is not an easy…

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Trapper Keeper!

We love Fort Vancouver! We’ve visited Fort for close to a decade… …always arriving early, usually in winter, and mostly in the dark. First period started at 7:25am – far too early for healthy adolescent brain development, and we’ve spent years presenting, discussing and exploring the extensive neuroscience research illustrating…

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Can a skull regenerate?

It’s February, and we are DEEP into our winter outreach schedule, which this term reaches from Portland and Vancouver, Corvallis and the Oregon State Capitol – all the way to Washington DC! Some huge thanks: our extensive all-volunteer efforts received welcome boxes of pipe cleaners, PLA filament and other art…

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See what we did this fall!

Our interdisciplinary neuroscience undergrads and faculty were BUSY this fall, from local public schools and Boise conferences to OHSU research labs and the halls of Congress! Here are the latest interdisciplinary neuroscience undergraduate posts from our Noggin volunteers, covering research on houselessness and sleep, childhood development, youth corrections, artificial intelligence,…

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A Brain without Glia

Post by Natalie Robison (she/her), undergraduate in Biology at Portland State University pursuing an Interdisciplinary Neuroscience minor. Did you know that, by some measures, a brain has just as many glial cells as it does neurons? LEARN MORE: The search for true numbers of neurons and glial cells in the…

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Always Room for Growth

Post by Abubakar Nur, undergraduate in Psychology pursuing an Interdisciplinary Neuroscience minor at Portland State University.  I’m an undergraduate at PSU, and I’m pursuing an interdisciplinary neuroscience minor. This Halloween I joined my fellow undergrads, along with graduate students and scientists from the nearby Oregon National Primate Research Center, for a visit to Dr. Martin…

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Noggin Takes DC

“I just hope that more people will ignore the fatalism of the argument that we are beyond repair. We are not beyond repair. We are never beyond repair.” — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Brains change, but they also develop routines, and adult brains are less plastic and more fixed in their neural…

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Je pense, donc je suis: Traversing tricky topics through outreach

Post by Dan Jang, an undergraduate triple majoring in Computer Science, Biomedical Physics and General Science, and also pursuing a double minor in Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Neuroscience at Portland State University. Dan is a PSU Neuroscience Club General Officer (’21-’24) and served as Club President (’22-’23). “Je pense, donc je suis,” an insight…

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