How do you find a job in a lab?

Post by Bradley Marxmiller, undergraduate in Biology and Interdisciplinary Neuroscience at Portland State University. Bradley followed up this post with more details on his experience in Dr. Atheir Abbas’s lab at the Portland VA Hospital/OHSU: Learning with Light. The most common question I get from fellow students interested in science…

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We love SUN!

At Northwest Noggin we got our start way back in 2012 with our first all volunteer summer program. We were poorly paid adjuncts in neuroscience and art, and programs like these were out of reach for our own kids. Portland’s huge Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) ran popular…

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Awestruck and Humbled Amazement

Post by Annabella (Bella) Showerman, undergraduate Psychology major and interdisciplinary neuroscience minor at Portland State University. Many who aspire to study the brain are fascinated with what makes us who we are and why we do the things that we do. I have always been drawn to neuroscience for this very…

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Bilingualism is Cool!

Post by Lidia Echeverria-Garcia and Ziru Bolen, Bilingual Graduate Student Clinicians, Communication Disorders & Sciences, University of Oregon. LEARN MORE: 双语很酷! LEARN MORE: ¡Ser bilingüe es maravilloso! TAKE THE SURVEY Please click on the link to take this survey when you finished reading the blog post – thank you! Many…

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Enamored by Neuroscience!

Post by Grace Taylor, undergraduate Psychology major and interdisciplinary neuroscience minor at Portland State University. Grace joined Noggin outreach volunteers at the gorgeous new MLK Elementary in Vancouver Public Schools this month, including fellow PSU undergraduates Yasaman Farhand, Britta Harbury, Sydney Watson, Elizabeth Munk, Lauren Kuiper and Annabella Showerman. We love brains This April…

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Art, brains & GUTS at Ogden!

Post by Tonia Bautista, undergraduate Psychology major and interdisciplinary neuroscience minor at Portland State University. Tonia joined Noggin outreach volunteers at Ogden Elementary in Vancouver Public Schools this month, including fellow PSU undergraduates Yasaman Farhand, Britta Harbury, Kristin Preston, Roman Cimkovich, Elizabeth Munk, Lauren Kuiper, Hannah Shawo, Tira Gaston and…

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