From their website: “The Society for Neuroscience is the world’s largest organization of scientists and physicians devoted to understanding the brain and nervous system.”
NW Noggin volunteers include neuroscience undergraduates, graduate students, postdocs and artists, and both individually and collectively we present and attend local chapter meetings and international conferences for the Society for Neuroscience (SfN).
Yet we don’t typically stay in the humongous convention centers of Chicago, San Diego or DC. We make a point to bring our informed and enthusiastic outreach volunteers into surrounding communities, to make brain art and discuss neuroscience research with K-12 students and the public!
We’ve also worked with SfN to present global webinars on outreach, run a mobbed Art of Neuroscience pipe-cleaner neuron building booth, bring real human brains into their 50th anniversary – and in 2018 we presented the keynote address on Brain Awareness!
Learn about all these experiences, how we manage to support so many students – and how you can do this too – at the links below 🙂
Check out what we did in DC this fall 2023!
Psychedelics & Outreach
Observing Art & Brains @ SfN
Brains Beyond SfN
2022 Society for Neuroscience conference!
2021 Society for Neuroscience conference!
We submitted our poster abstract to the first LIVE, in person SfN Conference since 2019! Abstract submission opens on Tuesday, July 6 and closes on Thursday, July 15.
NOTE: We decided to withdraw this year, and direct resources towards direct community engagement. But we plan to return live and ready for public outreach to an exciting in person SfN conference in 2022!
SEE OUR NW NOGGIN ABSTRACT FOR SFN 2021
Action AND Potential!
Reconnecting our brains, one cell at a time
Noggins in CHICAGO!
Reflections on Chicago
Brains & Sex @ SfN
Synapsing in San Diego @ SfN!
Lakeside sits a ship
Noggin @ SfN: Brain Awareness Campaign Event
Noggins & Noodles @ SfN!
Mental health @ McMenamin’s
From classrooms to Congress!
Serving 700 students at SfN!
NW Noggins Bring #brains2DC!
NW Noggin: Art of Neuroscience
Myelin @ McMenamin’s!
A network grows in San Diego
Art & Science @ SfN 2016
Cortical Connections in San Diego Schools!
Synapses in San Diego: Noggin @ SfN
Society for Neuroscience covers Noggin in DC!
Bringing Neuroscience to Congress
Edgefield EPSPs: Growing in Networks @ SfN!
NW Noggin featured in SfN Neuroscience Quarterly!
SfN Chapter Meeting: Drugs, Genes & STEAM!
NW Noggin featured in SfN Neuronline
Noggin @ Chicago SfN
Posters, Politics and the PPA
Monet to Magritte, Contemplating Neuroscience at the Art Institute of Chicago
NW Noggin at Oregon SfN
NW Noggin visits DC!
