NEED Lab in the News
January 2023 - Findings from Baby's First Years Study featured in Spectrum News NY, read along here!
September 2022 - Findings from Baby's First Years Study featured in The Reader, read along here!
March 2022 - Findings from the Baby's First Years Study were featured in Medscape Medical News, read along here!
January 2022 - Dr. Noble was interviewed on MSNBC - All in with Chris Hayes. Watch here!
January 2022 - Dr. Troller-Renfree discussed findings from the Baby's First Years Study on MPR, listen here!
January 2022 - Findings from the Baby's First Years Study were featured in the New York Times, read along here!
January 2022 - Findings from the Baby's First Years Study were featured by VOX, read along here!
January 2022 - Findings from the Baby's First Years Study were featured by AP News, read along here!
January 2022 - Findings from the Baby's First Years Study were featured by NBC News, read along here!
January 2022 - Findings from the Baby's First Years Study were featured in the Philadelphia Inquirer, read along here!
January 2022 - Findings from the Baby's First Years Study were featured in the New Orleans Times - Picayune, read along here!
September 2021 - Dr. Noble was featured on NPR's Freakonomics Radio podcast, listen here!
April 2021 - The Baby's First Years Study was featured in the New York Times, read along here!
March 2021 - Dr. Noble was featured on NPR's TED Radio Hour, listen here!
January 2019 - Canada's Macleans Magazine just published a feature on the groundbreaking Baby's First Years Study. Read along here!
May 2019 - The Baby's First Years Study was featured in the NY Post (read along here) and Pix11 (read along here).
April 2019 - The Wall Street Journal released a feature on the Baby's First Years Project, which is coming up on its first year! Read along here.
April 2019 - Dr. Noble had a wonderful time in Santiago discussing our work and the ongoing Baby's First Years study at the Center for Public Studies (CEP) and Adolfo Ibáñez University. Read about her trips here and here.
January 2019 - Dr. Noble presented about poverty in the brain at TED. Read about it here and watch the talk here!
October 2018 - Dr. Noble commented on Rachel Romeo's excellent work linking conversational turns and white matter tracts for Psychology Today. Read on here.
May 2018 - NPR's Planet Money podcast featured Dr. Noble in a segment about our Baby's First Years project that launched this month! Listen here.
May 2018 - The Economist wrote a great piece about the upcoming Baby's First Years project that will be kicking off next week! Read it here.
October 2017 - Our upcoming poverty reduction RCT project was featured in the cover story of Der Spiegel, the top news magazine in Germany! See the original story here.
September 2017 - APA Science named Dr. Noble a Scientist to Thank for her research on socioeconomic disparities and cognitive development.
July 2017 - Learn more about our work and the upcoming randomized control trial in poverty reduction from this piece in Mother Jones and The Guardian. Find it in Mother Jones here, and The Guardian here!
June 2017 - Teachers College did a profile of one of our RAs who's continuing on to get her PhD in Early Childhood Education. Check it out here!
June 2017 - The Vancouver Sun wrote an article about one of our RAs that recently graduated from the Neuroscience and Education Masters program at 19. Congrats Rachel! Read it here.
May 2017 - Dr. Noble spoke with Mic to refute HUD Secretary Ben Carson's suggestion that poverty is a state of mind. Read about it here!
April 2017 - Psychology Today did a Q&A with Dr. Noble. Click here to read more about our work and future directions.
March 2017 - Le Monde, the national newspaper in France, published a piece on poverty and the brain featuring Dr. Noble and the lab's work. See it here and read the interview in English here!
March 2017 - Dr. Noble wrote a piece on Inequality and the Brain for this month's issue of Scientific American. Read it here or check out the Scientific American blog post about it here!
February 2017 - Dr. Noble was featured on The Charlie Rose show's episode about Childhood Adversity. Check it out here!
August 2016 - Newsweek just published a piece 'How Poverty Affects the Brain' featuring Dr. Noble.
October 2015 - One of our postdocs, Dr. Natalie Brito, participated in a roundtable discussion about poverty and brain development at the Society for Neuroscience's Annual Meeting, covered in Scientific American.
October 2015 - Check out The Bloomberg View's excellent piece on poverty, featuring our work.
October 2015 - Dr. Noble wrote an op-ed on poverty and brain development, featured in the Washington Post and the Chicago Tribune.
June 2015 - Excited about the mention of our Nature Neuroscience article in The New Yorker's piece on What Poverty Does to the Young Brain!
April 2015 - Our Nature Neuroscience publication was featured along with other studies on brain science and the achievement gap in The Washington Post! Dr. Noble also appeared on Huffington Post Live to discuss our findings. Also check out this new piece in the Huffington Post.
March 2015 - Our Nature Neuroscience publication on SES disparities in brain development is receiving worldwide attention. Dr. Noble has been featured in national pieces by NBC News, The Washington Post,PBS, Forbes, AAAS, and Psychology Today. Internationally, she has been interviewed on The BBC and Swiss Radio, and appears in pieces by The Guardian and the New Zealand Herald.
March 2015 - A Letter to the Editor written by Dr. Noble and our colleague Dr. Lisa Gennetian was published in the Wall Street Journal, in response to an op-ed suggesting that the link between income and SAT scores is based primarily on parent IQ.
December 2014 - Check out Lab Manager Samantha Melvin's post, It's Not Just Us: We Can't Fight Poverty Without Collaboration, on the APA's Psychology Benefits Society Blog! It is part of a great series on how psychology can contribute to discussions of poverty in light of 50 years of the War on Poverty.
July 2014 - Dr. Noble was featured along with our colleague Dr. Anne Fernald in a piece about the importance of talking to babies in a story on Radio Health Journal! She was also quoted in a Slate article about the necessity of researching child development across the socioeconomic spectrum, citing the tendency of much developmental research to ignore such important factors.
June 2014 - Dr. Noble was interviewed for an article on NBC Today about the CDC's new report on falling induction rates. She cites her work on the relationship between gestational age and later educational outcomes as evidence for the importance of waiting until at least 39 weeks to give birth whenever possible.
February 2014 - Dr. Noble recently spoke in a symposium at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL. She is featured in the Associated Press and Agence France-Presse for her talk on SES disparities in language areas of the brain, as well as in the Associated Press article Tips for Talking to Babies, Toddlers. She was also featured in The Economist for this presentation, so make sure to watch the video for a closer look at the NEED Lab's work!
November 2013 - Dr. Noble was quoted in the Swiss national newspaper, Neue Zuercher Zeitung.
August 2013 - Dr. Noble was recently interviewed for a Reuters Health article on neurodevelopmental outcomes in extremely premature babies, as well as a Live Science article on the relationship between poverty and cognitive ability.
March 2013 - The Pennsylvania Gazette, the alumni magazine for the University of Pennsylvania, featured Dr. Noble's work that shows a relationship between SES and children's brain development.
October 2012 - Dr. Noble was featured in The Washington Post for a publication that shows how individual components of SES differentially affect brain structure in children.
March 2012 - Dr. Noble's publication in Pediatrics has been featured by the Associated Press, Reuters, Time, the Wall Street Journal, NBC news, ABC news, Kveller.com, NPR, and CBS radio! Dr. Noble is lead author on this paper, which shows significant differences in 3rd grade academic achievement between early full-term and late full-term children. Click here to view the official press release.