WHAT: Noggin Keynote Address @ SfN Brain Awareness Campaign Event We did it! Learn more at the link… Synapsing in San Diego @ SfN! WHERE: San Diego Convention Center, SDCC 16 WHEN: Saturday, November 3, 2:30-4:00pm Organizer/Moderator: Society for Neuroscience CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT NOGGIN PLANS AT SfN NW Noggin: Action…
Post and pictures by Denesa Lockwood Oberbeck, OHSU/NW Noggin Board “Home of the Seagulls!” Today we visited a 3rd grade classroom at Lakeshore Elementary School in Vancouver, Washington. Our enthusiastic volunteers included Denesa Lockwood of OHSU, Iris Gutierrez, Ruth Marigomen and Anthony Almonte from WSU, and Joey Seuferling, our Noggin Resource Council member…
“It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.” –Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles Native stories are often seasonal, and those who closely observe fellow denizens of our natural world tell instructive tales, and create dances and songs relating the…
Post by Jesse Hamlin, NW Noggin Resource Council member for music and performance. Jesse is a Portland State University undergraduate in Psychology and completed this work as part of his honors thesis. He also organized Noggin Fest in fall, 2017, which helped bring 21 volunteers to Washington DC to present…
“Our national obsession with test scores as the measure of school quality has not only not produced progress, but it is breaking our public school system apart. We have had a decade and a half of this misguided focus. It must stop.” –Carol Burris, Executive Director of the Network for…
We love Brain Awareness Season, a popular winter/spring series of neuroscience activities and events. NW Noggin is honored to partner with the Dana Foundation, a leading philanthropic organization that first established Brain Awareness Week, and supports research through grants, publications, and programs. LEARN MORE: Brain Awareness Week (BAW) is the global campaign to increase public…
“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well” – Virginia Woolf We wheeled our colorful cart back to Portland’s Newmark Theater to hear Bita Moghaddam, the Chair of Behavioral Neuroscience at OHSU, provide the nutritious conclusion to this year’s OHSU Brain Awareness lecture series on…
How much energy does a brain require? How many brain cells do we have? Are humans unique in terms of brain size, number of neurons – or social skills, tool use, deception, or play..? How do you make “brain soup?” And what’s the best way to bring fresh cerebrums on an international…
Noggin volunteers and members of the Neuroscience and Psychology Clubs from Portland State University beelined to the historic art and beer-saturated McMenamin’s Edgefield Hotel last Friday to join the annual Society for Neuroscience Oregon/Southwest Washington Chapter meeting at the mouth of the Columbia River Gorge… It was a mossier, wetter morning…
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the sprawling federal agency that funds research, including brain research. The BRAIN (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies®) Initiative is an NIH program aimed at “revolutionizing our understanding of the human brain” through investment in technologies that should ultimately allow neuroscientists to visualize how individual…