Outreach

The ONE Core supports educational efforts to engage the general public in current cutting edge scientific endeavors. An understanding of our very own brains empowers ALL OF us across the facets of our lives. Together we convene to inspire, inform, and involve ourselves in all things neuroscience.

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In particular, we provide resources to the Neuroscience Outreach Group, which aims to engage people from all walks of life in free neuroscience education for an enthusiastic lifetime of self awareness. The Neuroscience Outreach Group (NOG) is an organization run by enthusiastic graduate students, faculty, and staff at the CU Anschutz Medical Campus.

Funding for these projects was in part generously provided by the Dana Foundation. The Dana Foundation advances neuroscience that benefits society and reflects the aspirations of all people. We explore the connections between neuroscience and society’s challenges and opportunities, working to maximize the potential of the field to do good.

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Projects supported:

  • Large Neuron
  • Large Glowing Eye
  • Auditory Guessing Boxes
  • Smell-y Boxes
  • Large Nose
  • Large Ear
  • Large Hair Cells
  • Blindspot Activity
  • Taste Activity: Jellybeans
  • Rumba Whale
  • Tongue Board
  • Backyard Brains: Roaches
  • Whisker Board
  • Cochlea
  • Mirror Boxes
  • Miracle Berries
  • Prism Goggles
  • Infrared Snake

Some of these projects are detailed with more information below. Beyond simply showing the means to build these for your own outreach programs, we hope that these projects show you engineering techniques that ARE INDEED APPLICABLE to science! Many of these projects CAN BE IMPLEMENTED FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH!!

We have also created beautiful posters which can be printed and used for your outreach presentations.

Encourage everyone, all ages, all levels of education to learn something about these 80 billion little cells that somehow makes a human brain.

Please acknowledge our Core in your publications. An appropriate wording would be “The Optogenetics and Neural Engineering (ONE) Core at the University of Colorado School of Medicine provided engineering support for this research. The ONE Core is part of the NeuroTechnology Center, funded in part by the School of Medicine and by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke of the National Institutes of Health under award number P30NS048154.”

Unless explicitly stated, all projects (software, documentation, drawings, and other file types) are shared freely under the MIT License.