2023: In Search of Meaning: Memory Becomes Us

Patricia Moss-Vreeland, an artist interested in the creative nature of memory, has a new exhibition with comments from Dasa Zeithamova at the Phillips Museum at the Franklin & Marshall College. If a trip to Lancanster, PA, is not in your immediate future, you can check out the highlights from the exhibition here: In Search of Meaning: Memory Becomes Us

October 2022: SPICE Open House

Brain and Memory lab participated in the annual Science Open House of the Science Program to Inspire Creativity and Excellence (SPICE)! Ben, Dominique, Lea, Troy and Min showed children visual illusion demos, the brain, memory experiment demos, and etc. Our table was popular among children who were excited about science.

SAIL: August/2022

The Brain and Memory Lab came back to the Summer Academy to Inspire Leaning (SAIL)! We are excited to be holding in-person outreach event again! Ben, Lea, Troy and Min represented our lab. They did an engaging workshop for middle and high school students.

October 2019: SPICE Open House

Brain and Memory lab participated in the annual Science Open House of the Science Program to Inspire Creativity and Excellence (SPICE)! We had different booths with visual illusion demos, the brain, memory experiment demos, and etc. Our table was popular among children who were excited about science.

July 2019: Midsummer Conference

Cait and Stefania and Lea went to the Apprenticeships in Science & Engineering (AES) Saturday Academy Midsummer Conference in Corvallis, OR! They did a hands-on workshop, “Mental Time Travel” on memory and the brain.

March 2018: Outreach at Edison Elementary School

The Brain and Memory lab went to Edison Elementary School to demonstrate how the brain works as part of the brain awareness week.

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October 2017: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute

Cait gave a community talk to members of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Oregon (OLLI-UO). The title of the talk was “Memory and aging: Transfer of information from short-term to long-term memory”.

SAIL: July 2017/2018

The Brain and Memory Lab came back to the Summer Academy to Inspire Leaning (SAIL)! Cait and Stefania represented our lab in 2017, and Lea joined them in 2018. They did an engaging workshop for middle and high school students.

ASE: July 2017/2018

Cait and Stefania (and Lea in 2018) did a hands-on workshop, “Mental Time Travel” for the Apprenticeships in Science & Engineering (AES) Saturday Academy in Corvallis, OR! The ASE program helps motivated high school students gain pre-professional internship experiences in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).

March 2017: Girls’ Science Adventure: Inside Your Brain

Girls in grade 4-6 got an up-close look participated in a neuropsychology adventure day in which members of the UO Women in Graduate Sciences helped them learn all about how human brains work, how they change over time, and what they look like through a brain scan. This event is part of the Science Factory’s Girls’ Science Adventures workshop series. Dasa represented our lab. In addition to our regular outreach kid activities, she brought cute little brain soap for the girls!

January 2017: Meet a scientist

Our lab would not have missed “Meet a scientist“, the annual event organized by the Science Factory Museum. Kids participated in an ongoing experiment and helped us display the results on a chart using tiny star stickers. It was fun, but coloring a brain hat remained their favorite activity!

September 2016: 6th Annual SPICE! Science Open House 2016

Last September, the Science Program to Inspire Creativity and Excellence (SPICE) and UO STEM CORE held the 6th annual “Science Open House”. Cait, Lea, and Alex were at the Brain and Memory lab’s booth, showing kids what an experiment looks like in our lab. Kids particularly enjoyed seeing their brain activity with our mobile EEG headset!

February 2016: Meet a Scientist

In February 2016, the Brain and Memory Lab was back at the Meet a Scientist event in Eugene’s own Science Factory for more fun! Children enjoyed visualizing their brainwaves, participated in psychology experiments that looked like games but also taught them about the scientific method and about how our memory works, and left with a brain hat that they decorated themselves! Parents were not the least curious and they asked us a lot of question about our research at the University. Everybody enjoyed themselves!

July 2015: SAIL

The Summer Academic to Inspire Learning (SAIL) is an innovative pipeline program that helps local eighth
through twelfth graders prepare for college. We were pleased to welcome SAIL students who were excited to learn about cognitive psychology! Dasa presented some of our last research findings and students participated in small experiments to learn about the research process.

February 2015: Meet a Scientist
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In February 2015, the Brain and Memory Lab set up a booth at the Meet a Scientist event in Eugene’s own Science Factory. Children and parents could explore a model brain, measure their brainwaves, play a memory game, and make their own Brain Hat.

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