Our Northwest Noggin undergraduate and graduate outreach volunteers are enthusiastic and informed, and regularly let knowledge serve by going places, making art, exploring brain research, sharing stories and listening to the questions and interests of community members in urban and rural K-12 public schools, coffee shops, museums, correctional facilities, houseless youth nonprofits, research conferences, Congress and more!
So what is it like to do outreach?
We regularly explore topics in neuroscience research and write up posts that describe where we went, what we discussed, the art we made and the scientific studies that we brought up in classrooms and other public spaces. You can learn more about these experiences at the link!
LEARN MORE: Noggin Bloggin
At Portland State University, undergraduates pursuing an interdisciplinary neuroscience minor often choose to write their own posts about their extensive outreach experiences, and we’ve gathered those for you to enjoy here.
Learn more at the links below!
Flex Your Muscles … and Your Brain!
Why do we think too hard?
It’s Not Me, It’s My Amygdala!
Let it Shine!
Déja Vu, Dreams, and Mechanisms of Memory
Character Building (literally!) on the Coast
Pre-school behaviors – in the brain!
Is stress ever good?
Your Invisible Sixth Sense
Brains Love Animals
How fast can you go?
Synapses to Shares
Always Room for Growth
Traversing tricky topics through outreach
Making art and making brains
Fentanyl On The Brain
Why does my brain FREEZE?!
A Dive Into Habits
Multilingual Brains!
Countering ACEs
Can music orchestrate emotional intelligence?
Aspiring to Assist
How does Narcan save a life?
Did school kill my brain?
Neuron Hats!
The Science of Sociability
The Art & Science of Nostalgia
The Magic of Music
How did we get the brain?
When I Grow Up: Learning, Memory, and LTP
Wrestling with Expectations, and Brains
A neurosymphony of skills!
Your Inner Worm Bin
Hey Vancouver: Let Kids Sleep!
Students & Stories : Tales of Acquired Brains
King Cortex!
Neuroscience for all: Creating a Brain Brochure
Sleepy brains at Fort
Papier-Mâché: Shaping Our Brain
Billions of Brain Cells
Nostalgia and BRAINS!
“What makes people struggle?”
“Branches of the same tree”
Hope through Change
The Classroom is like a Brain
Awestruck and Humbled Amazement
¡Ser bilingüe es maravilloso!
Enamored by Neuroscience!
Art, brains & GUTS at Ogden!
Moving beyond paywalls and jargon
Lightning in a Berry
Gathertown, Gathertown en ervaar het verhaal van de Nederlandse Noggin
The Qualia in Chromesthesia
Tik Tok: Welcoming undergraduate researchers in new ways
Brains With Little Brains
Who’s really good at asking “why?”
