A week before finals at Portland State and OHSU, our enthusiastic outreach volunteers gathered early at David Douglas High School to enjoy a full day of neuroscience research and art with around 200 curious students! LEARN MORE: Everything but guns Heather Roberts, a high school Social Studies teacher who also…
WHAT: Noggin visit with 4th graders at Sunnyside Environmental School, Portland Public Schools We did it! LEARN MORE AT THE LINK… What about the glia? WHERE: Sunnyside Environmental School, 3421 SE Salmon St, Portland, OR 97214 WHEN: Thursday, November 21, 2019, 12:30 – 3:00pm Contact: Asa Gervich, 4th Grade Teacher,…
We love BRAIN FAIR! What do we love about the annual Brain Fair at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry? It’s FREE! Brain Fair is FREE, which is – unfortunately – not a typical OMSI experience. If you want to visit the rest of Portland’s premier science institution with…
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,…
Post by Lorenzo Nungaray, undergraduate in Biology pursuing an Interdisciplinary Neuroscience minor at Portland State University. Lorenzo works as a research technician in the Sleep & Health Applied Research Program (SHARP) at OHSU, under the direction of Dr. Miranda Lim. LEARN MORE: Lorenzo Nungaray, SHARP Lab @ OHSU “Each night, when I go to…
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…
Post by Kasey Judd, undergraduate in Psychology pursuing an Interdisciplinary Neuroscience minor at Portland State University. “Hello, my name is Kasey and I am studying Psychology and Interdisciplinary Neuroscience at Portland State University. I think brains are fascinating!” — Kasey Judd, undergraduate at PSU This is typically what I’d say as we briefly introduced ourselves…
Post by Alexandria Bills, undergraduate in Psychology pursuing an Interdisciplinary Neuroscience minor at Portland State University. My name is Alexandria Bills, and I am a senior at Portland State University (PSU) pursuing a degree in Psychology and a minor in Interdisciplinary Neuroscience. I am also co-president of the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanic and…
“Sabía poco, pero al menos sabía eso: que nadie habla por los demás. Que aunque queramos contar historias ajenas terminamos siempre contando la historia propia”—Alejandro Zambra Storytelling and the brain Storytelling has a long history, and it’s a powerful and accepted method of teaching science. Research finds that curricula which…
Post by Austin Schubert, graduate student in the Neuroscience Graduate Program at OHSU. Austin is interested in the genetic and molecular basis of how the cerebral cortex develops in the context of health, disease, and evolution, and presented on brain organoids at NogginFest 2023. We all began as a single-celled…