Mushrooms and Meth @ Velo!

We celebrated our first year of free art and science events at Velo Cult this week, with a presentation on psychostimulants and the adolescent brain.  Emily Eastwood, a newly minted Ph.D. from OHSU Behavioral Neuroscience joined Tara Williams, an art student at PNCA who creates compelling fungal prints, to talk about mushrooms, and methamphetamine… Velo seemed…

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First graders grow dendrites!

We headed to Woodstock Elementary School in southeast Portland, where teacher Joyce Iliff told us her first grade students were learning about dendrites!  Joyce wasn’t kidding  –  they were a very informed and energetic class of kids… We began by introducing ourselves, and described where we work and study.  We also explaining…

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Protecting Noggins @ the Newmark

We gathered quite a crowd of volunteers at the Newmark Theater in downtown Portland this week, to staff our outreach table, assist the OHSU Brain Institute in collecting surveys, and listen to a remarkable lecture by Robert Stern, an expert on brain injuries and sports at Boston University… Dr. Stern was featured in a…

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The Rake’s Brain @ PAM!

We enjoyed an artistic science-packed educational evening in the creative surroundings of the Portland Art Museum on Thursday night, as featured speakers for a “Remixing the Museum:  STEAM and New Media” event… We were guests of Hana Layson, the School and Teacher Programs Specialist, Kristin Bayans, the Interpretive Media Specialist, and Phillippa Pitts, a…

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Neurophilosophy @ the Newmark

Once again, thanks to the generosity of the OHSU Brain Institute, we brought our busy outreach volunteers to an extraordinary lecture by Patricia Churchland at the Newmark Theater in downtown Portland this week… We staffed another NW Noggin table, and had great fun introducing theater-goers to the creative joys of building pipe cleaner…

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Healthy Noggins @ Jeff

Our energetic Noggin crew joined Mark Rutledge-Gorman from the Portland Alcohol Research Center (PARC) and a host of other presenters at Jefferson High School in Portland this week, for a Health Fair in the cafeteria… Allie Clark and Rosalie Lee from Portland State University, Angela Gonzalez from WSU Vancouver, and Alfredo Zuniga…

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Gray matter @ McCoy

Today we met fifteen sharp high school students at McCoy Academy, a school in Northeast Portland that serves students who have left Portland Public Schools, for (according to teacher Kim Keyes) more structure and smaller class sizes… A group of NW Noggin undergraduates, including Rosalie Lee, Alex Voigt (pictured above)…

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