From External to Internal

Trading Darkroom Photography for Brain Imaging Post by Amanda Jones, undergraduate in Psychology and Social Science pursuing an Interdisciplinary Neuroscience minor at Portland State University. Amanda currently volunteers for the NCANDA-A study in the Developmental Brain Imaging Lab (DBIL) at Oregon Health and Science University. For as long as I can remember, cameras have always…

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My Pathway to Research

Post by Connie Tran, undergraduate in Biology pursuing an Interdisciplinary Neuroscience minor at Portland State University. Connie is a research assistant in Dr. Martin Schreiber‘s lab in the Donald D. Trunkey Center for Civilian and Combat Casualty Care at OHSU. Connie Tran at her research poster during the PSU BUILD EXITO Summer Research Symposium…

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More Than One Path to Research

Post by Frederick Schemel, undergraduate in Psychology pursuing an Interdisciplinary Neuroscience minor at Portland State University. Frederick is currently a research assistant in the Developmental Brain Imaging Lab (DBIL) run by Dr. Bonnie Nagel in the Department of Psychiatry at Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU). March of the Multitudes Neuroscience is not an easy…

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Trapper Keeper!

We love Fort Vancouver! We’ve visited Fort for close to a decade… …always arriving early, usually in winter, and mostly in the dark. First period started at 7:25am – far too early for healthy adolescent brain development, and we’ve spent years presenting, discussing and exploring the extensive neuroscience research illustrating…

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Synapses to Shares

Post by Zach Salcido, undergraduate in Psychology pursuing an Interdisciplinary Neuroscience minor at Portland State University. Zach is a valued outreach participant in Noggin K-12 school visits around the Pacific Northwest, including those in Oregon City and Vancouver Public Schools. “We live in an age where there is a firehose…

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Why do we throw up?

Ahhh…elementary school! The questions are the best! Northwest Noggin volunteers took the Interstate Bridge over the Columbia River north to Vancouver Public Schools, for a morning with energetic students at Eleanor Roosevelt Elementary. Our community-engaged participants included Bradley Marxmiller and Dr. Denesa Lockwood from OHSU, along with Justin Benner, Brin…

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Can a skull regenerate?

It’s February, and we are DEEP into our winter outreach schedule, which this term reaches from Portland and Vancouver, Corvallis and the Oregon State Capitol – all the way to Washington DC! Some huge thanks: our extensive all-volunteer efforts received welcome boxes of pipe cleaners, PLA filament and other art…

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STEAMing back to Washington!

Northwest Noggin returns to DC! This month we are honored to join Oregon’s Roundhouse Foundation along with a host of incredible rural, arts and tribal representatives at the National Arts Summit in Washington DC, organized by the National Endowment for the Arts and the White House Office of Domestic Policy! “This…

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