Where is NW Noggin?
NW Noggin is a locally sourced, 501(c)(3) ALL-VOLUNTEER shoestring nonprofit organization. Your tax-deductible contribution supports the purchase of sheep brains, pipe cleaners, electrodes and clay for innovative, arts-integrated outreach, and helps send volunteers from local universities (including Portland State University, OHSU, and other area institutions) to public school classrooms, conferences and free community events.
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NW Noggin: Art + Brains
Drugs, Genes & Waltzing Mice!
Serving 700 students at SfN!
Long skinny lightning in Siletz
Join us in Chile in 2025!
LEARN MORE: LAS NEURONAS SON BACANES. APPLY HERE (PSU): Valparaiso - Arte y Cerebros en Chile APPLY HERE (NON-PSU): ARTS AND BRAINS IN CHILE
Brains on Art: Member Night @ the Museum
We carried our well-sealed bucket of brains to the Portland Art Museum on Thursday night, for animated discussions about vision and art in our gallery space on “The Nature of Seeing…” We promised no hazardous spills amongst the Morans and Monets, and arrived with far less formaldehyde than, for example, artist Damien Hirst… 🙂 We…
Helping Hair Cells @ Velo
It was easy to hear the large, excited crowd that gathered under the bikes at Velo Cult on Thursday evening, for a lively presentation on audition and the artistry of sound… Phil Uribe, a graduate student in Neuroscience from WSU Vancouver, and Kimberly Cordray, an Arts Practices major from PSU, worked together to inform the audience…
P:ear Plans: We’re coming back!
We enjoyed our last fall gathering at P:ear today, with great food, and great questions from enthusiastic young people curious to learn more about the brain… We brought along the popular Mindflex Duel, and explained the electrical nature of information flow along networks of linked neurons, and how thinking about different topics, or engaging…
Noggin Wednesdays @ P:ear!
Our volunteer art and brain educators from PSU, WSU Vancouver and PNCA returned to P:ear this week, this time with donated neuroscience textbooks, and cool and cerebral screen printing designs… Carrie Miyamoto from PNCA brought along her metal frames, and spent a busy few hours teaching folks at P:ear how to spread…
Monet to Magritte, Contemplating Neuroscience at the Art Institute of Chicago
Posters, Politics and the PPA
Our well-traveled pipe cleaner neuron took a busy tour of SfN this weekend, thanks to travel support from the Vancouver branch campus of WSU, and drew in many curious conference attendees… We began with a special Brain Awareness poster session on Saturday, devoted to “Sparking Connections Through Brain Awareness Around the Globe…”…
Peppered with questions @ P:ear!
Eight volunteers from PSU, PNCA and WSUV have been dropping by P:ear at lunchtime to talk about brains, make beaded neurons, draw sulci and gyri, and examine real human cerebrums up close… We’ve been part of “Science Wednesdays” at this much valued “safe” space for homeless youth in downtown Portland, and have enjoyed…
Noggin @ Chicago SfN
Jeff Leake and Bill Griesar head to Chicago this week to present a poster on NW Noggin STEAM outreach efforts in both formal and informal settings – everything from K-12 schools to theaters, art museums, breweries, conferences, homeless youth outreach centers, and bike shop pubs 🙂 We’ll present at the…
Listen in @ Velo Cult: October 29!
WHAT: One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Deaf Fish: What Fish Can Teach Us About Hearing Loss, with Phil Uribe (WSU Vancouver) and Kimberly Cordray (Portland State University) WHEN: Thursday, October 29, 2015, 6 – 8pm WHERE: Velo Cult, 1969 NE 42nd Avenue, Portland, OR Hearing is among our most critical…
The Nature of Seeing: Noggins and Art
Fresh off a long drive from a conference workshop in Ashland, and a shorter bike ride from Northeast Portland, Jeff and Bill had the exciting opportunity to attend the Portland Art Museum member opening of “Seeing Nature,” an extraordinary exhibit of landscape masterworks from the Paul G. Allen Family Collection… We headed first to…
Synapsing in San Diego
“I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands. You need to be able to throw something back.” ―Maya Angelou.
Our AMAZING volunteers organized the largest all ages Art & Neuroscience Festival in the Pacific Northwest! We offered live bands, science-inspired art, neuroscience research presentations, and the chance to ask questions and examine real brains! The fifth annual Noggin Fest helped send more young scientists and artists to the Society for Neuroscience conference in San Diego - and into San Diego Unified Public Schools! LEARN MORE @ Brains Beyond SfN!.