NEED Lab Updates
September 2023- Congratulations to Melina Amarante, Chanel Ramirez, and Melissa Giebler for presenting their posters at the FLUX conference!
August 2023- A warm welcome to Luciane Piccolo, the new Research Scientist for BFY! Dr.Piccolo's work integrates developmental psychology and cognitive neuroscience. We're so happy to have her at the lab!
July 2023- Congratulations to Dayanara Sanchez, Angie Narvaez, and Aislinn Sandre for presenting their work at the ISDP conference! Dayanara and Angie presented their posters, and Aislinn gave a talk. Huge congratulations!
July 2023- A warm welcome to Angie Narvaez, the new project coordinator for BFY! Angie was a full-time RA for BFY's Age-4 wave of data collection. We're so happy to continue having her work on the project!
July 2023- A warm welcome to Ana Beatriz Vizcaino, the new NYC site coordinator for BFY! Ana was a full-time RA for BFY's Age-4 wave of data collection. We're so happy to continue having her work on the project!
April 2023- Congratulations to Katrina Simon (now Dr.Simon!) for passing her dissertation defense!
March 2023- Congratulations to our doctoral students, Emma and Jessica, for presenting their talks at the SRCD conference!
September 2022- Congratulations to Melina Amarante, Chanel Ramirez, Katrina Simon, and Melissa Giebler on presenting their posters at the ISDP conference!
July 2022- Congratulations to our doctoral students, Emma and Jessica, for presenting their posters at the IMBES conference!
June 2022- A warm welcome to Dayanara Sanchez, the new Lab Manager at the NEED Lab! Dayanara just graduated from Rutgers University-Newark in May, and we're so happy to have her at the lab!
June 2022- A warm welcome to Angie Narvaez, the new full-time research assistant for the BFY study! Angie just graduated from Skidmore college in May, and we're so happy to have her at the lab!
June 2022- A warm welcome to Katie Diaz, the new full-time research assistant for the BFY study! Katie just graduated from Florida State University in May, and we're so happy to have her at the lab!
September 2021 - A huge congratulations to Dr. Noble for receiving the 2021 APA Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest (Senior Career) Award!
August 2021 - A warm welcome to Chanel Ramirez, the new full-time research assistant for the BFY Study! Chanel joined our lab as a volunteer RA, and is working towards completing her MS in Neuroscience and Education while in this new role!
August 2021 - A warm welcome to Renata Penalva, the new study coordinator for BFY! Renata volunteered as an RA while she completed her MS in Neuroscience and Education at TC, and we're so happy to have her continue on with the lab!
August 2021 - A warm welcome to Melina Amarante, the new coordinator for the BUDDY Study! Melina volunteered as an RA while she completed her MS in Neuroscience and Education at TC, and we're so excited for her to stay on in this new role!
April 2021 - We are so excited to have the NEED Lab well represented at SRCD's virtual conference!
October 2020 - Congratulations to the NEED Lab members presenting at ISDP's virtual conference!
June 2020 - A warm welcome to our new Post-Doc, Molly Scott! Molly joins us from Temple University, where she completed her doctoral training under Dr. Kathy Hirsh-Pasek. We're so excited to have her as part of the NEED Lab team!
June 2020 - Welcome to our new Lab Manager, Isabel Kovacs! Isabel worked in the lab as an RA during her time at Barnard College, and we look forward to having her stay on in this new role!
July 2019 - The Building Understanding of Developmental Differences across Years (BUDDY) Study has launched! Sign up to participate if you are currently pregnant!
June 2019 - Welcome to Liv Colón, the new coordinator for the BUDDY Study!
June 2019 - A warm welcome to Yasmin Salazar, the new study coordinator for the Baby's First Years study!
January 2018 - Congratulations to Dr. Noble who just presented about our work at TED! Read about it here and stay tuned for a full link!
December 2018 - We are so excited to have the NEED Lab well represented at SRCD! Make sure to catch Emily, Natalie, Sonya, Dina, Pooja and Dr. Noble who will be sharing work at the conference. See you in Baltimore!
November 2018 - Dr. Noble delivered Grand Rounds in the Department of Pediatrics at the Columbia University Medical Center. Thanks to all who joined this morning!
November 2018 - Dr. Noble is delighted to be named to the APA's Committee on Socioeconomic Status!
September 2018 - Dr. Noble was invited to deliver Psychiatry Grand Rounds at the Columbia University Medical Center.
July 2018 - Dr. Noble was invited to speak at the Summer School on Socioeconomic Inequality, Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group. See you in Chicago!
July 2018 - Welcome to our new Lab Manager, Pooja Desai! Pooja completed her senior thesis work through the lab as an RA, and we look forward to having her stay on in this new role.
June 2018 - A warm welcome to our new Post-Doc, Sonya Troller Renfree! Sonya joins us from the University of Maryland where she completed her doctoral training under Dr. Nathan Fox. Check out some of her amazing work here!
May 2018 - Our post-doc Emily will be presenting at the Association for Psychological Science conference in San Francisco. See you on the West Coast!
April 2018 - Our lab manager Elaine presented at the American Education Research Association Conference (AERA) right here in New York. Congratulations Elaine!
March 2018 - We are thrilled to announce our new National Project Director for the Baby's First Year study, Lauren Meyer! A hearty welcome to the NEED Lab Lauren!
November 2017 - Dr. Noble was named the Wiley Distinguished Speaker and traveled to Washington DC to present the lab's work at the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology (ISDP).
August 2017 - Congratulations to our postdoc, Natalie Brito, for moving on and up to her own lab at NYU Steinhardt! Best of luck, we will miss you! To see more about her work follow her lab on twitter or check out her NYU faculty page here!
January 2017 - The Association for Psychological Science awarded Dr. Noble the 2017 Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions! Click here to see the profile written about her.
December 2016 - The NEED Lab had 5 presentations accepted for the SRCD 2017 conference. See you in Austin!
September 2016 - We have a new Visiting Scholar from the University of Aberdeen. Welcome to the NEED Lab Clarisse!
March 2016 - The American Academy of Pediatrics just issued its first ever policy statement on poverty. Take a look here!
February 2016 - Check out Dr. Noble's lecture, Socioeconomic Status, Children and Brain Development, from the Brain Insight lecture series, sponsored by Columbia's Zuckerman Institute.
December 2015 - Six abstracts from our lab were accepted to the 2016 Annual Meetings of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society and Eastern Psychological Association. See you this spring in NYC!
November 2015 - The BabBLE study has launched! Sign up to participate with your 6-12 month old.
July 2015 - We've moved! Come visit our new home at Teachers College, Columbia University!
March 2015 - Dr. Noble and colleagues in the Pediatric Imaging, Neurocognition, and Genetics (PING) study found SES disparities in brain structure throughout early childhood and adolescence, published this month in Nature Neuroscience. Our first paper with the PASS Network was also published in Developmental Psychobiology this month, reporting SES disparities in language and memory in the first two years of life.