WHAT: NW Noggin @ Sunnyside Environmental School WHERE: Google Meet link coming soon for Noggin volunteers! WHEN: 1. Thursday, April 22, 12:30 – 2:00pm (Pacific) 2. Friday, April 23, 12:30 – 2:00pm (Pacific) 3. Thursday, April 29, 12:30 – 2:00pm (Pacific) 4. Friday, April 30, 12:30 – 2:00pm (Pacific) We…
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,…
Ben Johnston is finishing his Bachelor of Science in Applied Health and Fitness with a minor in Interdisciplinary Neuroscience at Portland State University. He previously earned an AAS degree in Exercise Science at Portland Community College. Recently, I’ve been able to join fellow students to visit OMSI (for the Brain…
Post and (most!) photography by Shae Zeimantz, undergraduate in Psychology pursuing an Interdisciplinary Neuroscience minor at Portland State University. “I feel like I’ve dreamed half of my life that hasn’t happened yet, so a lot of times I’m going along, and I do stuff, and I know that I’ve done…
Post by Rocio Garcia, an undergraduate in Psychology pursuing a minor in Interdisciplinary Neuroscience at Portland State University. Rocio is currently a substitute teacher at the Montessori of Alameda school in Portland, Oregon. My name is Rocio Garcia, and I am an undergraduate senior at PSU, majoring in Psychology and…
Post by Diego Sanchez, an undergraduate pre-Physician’s Assistant in Psychology pursuing an Interdisciplinary Neuroscience minor at Portland State University. There are many activities that I enjoy doing when I have the time. I like to travel, go to the beach, watch a movie with the family, and so forth. Two…
Noggin drama! This spring we traveled to Oregon’s spectacular North Coast for a few days of theater and school visits, to explore the cellular actors that populate our brains. We are indebted to TRIO Clatsop and the tireless work of Meredith Payton, who once again helped organize housing and meals…
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,…