Teaching Associate Professor, Psychology and Interdisciplinary Neuroscience
Bill Griesar, Ph.D., is a teaching associate professor in Psychology and co-founder of the interdisciplinary neuroscience minor at Portland State. He is co-founder and neuroscience coordinator of the outreach non-profit NW Noggin and affiliate graduate faculty in Behavioral & Systems Neuroscience at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU).
Griesar loves teaching, learning, and listening to stories — from all ages, everywhere, all the time. He was recognized as an innovator by the Obama White House and has taught neuroscience courses at PSU, OHSU, PCC, WSU Vancouver, Clark and Lower Columbia College since 2001.
Through NW Noggin, which is entirely volunteer, he has met over 75,000 urban and rural K-12 students, houseless youth, members of Congress, incarcerated young people, museum goers, pub patrons and other community members over shared interests in perception, cognition, behavior, brain research and art.