Gallery 114 Hosts PNCA Exhibit As part of an ongoing collaboration with the Pacific Northwest College of Art, in February Gallery 114 hosts a show of MFA candidates entitled “Four.” Four PNCA graduate students present paintings, prints, and installation work in a show curated by Maximiliano Martinez, MFA candidate in…
WHAT: “Marijuana: Fact or Fiction. Art, Pain, and Cannabinoids,” Sponsored by the Washington Academy of General Dentistry WHERE: Washington AGD Educational Center, Heyamoto Conference Room, 19415 International Blvd, #410, SeaTac, WA 98188 WHEN: Saturday, January 21, 2017, 8:00am – 5:00pm Course Outline: Cannabis, marijuana, is legal in the states of Washington, Oregon,…
“Societies in which we are able to unify ourselves around values and ideals and character and how we treat each other and cooperation and innovation…are gonna be more successful than societies that don’t” -Barack Obama The White House Frontiers Conference brought together some of the world’s leading innovators in Pittsburgh this week to…
A blog by Kirk Wydner — Bringing you the latest news at the crossroads of neuroscience and technology. December 27th, 2016 Spinal cord injuries have always come with a painful finality. The delicate nature of our nervous system makes it very difficult if not impossible for any recovery to happen after a…
Post written by Ram Kandasamy, Neuroscience, WSU Vancouver Ram presented his graduate research on cannabinoids and chronic pain as part of a Washington State Psychological Association workshop in September, 2016; a workshop that will also be offered at WSU Vancouver early in 2017 (date/time TBA)… EXPLORE MORE: Art, Pain – and…
NW Noggin “charged” south – way south! – to the dramatic, artistically and scientifically rich central coast of Chile, to visit the region where neuroscience blossomed in the second half of the last century, and explore potential links with a celebrated outreach program in Valparaíso… Neurons, of course, carry messages – information about…
NW Noggin would not exist without these folks! They tirelessly offer their creativity, engagement, time and support to art and neuroscience education in our community. We’d like to recognize them as members of the NW Noggin Resource Council. KANANI MIYAMOTO Resource Council member for arts integration Carrie Ann Kanani Miyamoto holds an MFA in…
This Friday 26 exuberant Skyview High School students made the trek from Vancouver to Portland to join us at the Portland Art Museum for an afternoon of art and science. We began by discussing how all of our students were already equipped with the knowledge necessary to address any artwork they…
For the last four years, our Pacific Northwest Noggin volunteers, developing experts in neuroscience, psychology, anthropology, and the arts, have collaborated, and partnered with public schools, museums, libraries, hospitals, symphonies, homeless youth centers, drug rehabilitation clinics, and bicycle shop pubs… Even Congress, and the White House! We’ve brought Noggin graduates and undergraduates…
On an outreach journey that became more extraordinary by the day, beginning with brains and art projects at two DC public schools, and briefings on STEAM education and neuroscience research in both houses of Congress, we gathered Thursday morning outside the gates of the magnificent Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House…