WHAT: Regional Arts & Culture Council (RACC) Juice Awards! Amazing morning! Learn more about RACC, and the Top Ten Ways you can make a difference for arts and culture at this link..! Ten Ways to Support the Arts WHERE: Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Ave, Portland, OR 97205 WHEN: Thursday,…
WHAT: Art + Science panel with NW Noggin WHERE: Littman Gallery, Portland State University Smith Center, Room 250, 1825 SW Broadway, Portland, Oregon 97207-0751 WHEN: Wednesday, January 31, 6:00 – 8:00pm For the panel on Art + Science, Kindra Crick will speak with her collaborator at WSU, memory researcher Dr. Harkness, and…
LITTMAN GALLERY at Portland State University 1825 SW Broadway #250 Portland, OR 97201 Illuminated Wilderness: Memory January 8 – February 2, 2018 Exhibition reception: Wednesday, January 17th, 5pm – 9pm Art & Science Panel w/NW Noggin: Wednesday, January 31st, 6-8pm “Has it ever struck you… that life is all memory,…
Post by Jobe Ritchie, Noggin volunteer from Portland State University “The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical effort, sometimes to reduce pain, and sometimes to postpone death, or at least render it more bearable.” -Santiago Ramón y Cajal For better or worse, we are all…
A huge thanks to the Society for Neuroscience for inviting our undergraduate outreach participants to this fall’s conference in Washington, DC, waiving registration and poster fees, and joining us for our Noggin/American Brain Coalition briefing in Congress – and at Turner Elementary, where we worked with over 650 kids! LEARN MORE:…
“It always seems impossible until it’s done” -Nelson Mandela And now it’s done! Learn more about our week in DC at the link! From classrooms to Congress! Dream it, risk it, reach out, speak up, mess up, work hard, come back, think more, change it, make art, innovate, remember consequences…
“You ask the world, and the world says no It’s the world’s refrain, mine says go…” -John Gorka Our outreach office, and our pipe cleaners, air dry clay, sheep brains, cerebral jello molds, EEG electrodes – were once kept in a closet behind two locked doors. The tiny hidden…
Our Noggin volunteers tackled sclerotic commuter highways to meet with sleepy 10th graders at Liberty High School in Hillsboro Public Schools last week, early on a foggy autumn morning… We were invited by Ramona Toth, the Health and Chemistry teacher at Liberty, whose classroom we’d visited previously on the same memorable day we’d…
Noggin traveled this morning to the Rockwood neighborhood offices of the Latino Network, a Latino-led organization grounded in culturally-specific practices and services that aims to lift up youth and families to reach their full potential… LEARN MORE: LATINO NETWORK We are thrilled to partner with this fellow community nonprofit which…
WHAT: Homelessness & the Brain @ p:ear WHERE: p:ear, 338 NW 6th Ave. Portland, OR 97209 WHEN: Thursday, October 19, 10:00am – 1:00pm (9:00am set up for presenters) NW Noggin has been visiting p:ear, laden with plaster casts of cerebral hemispheres! We’ve been discussing plans to present brain research and art related to…