Rate My Professor Kimberly Noble

As principal investigator of Baby’s First Years, the first U.S. randomized controlled trial of poverty reduction through unconditional cash transfers to families with infants, Noble's work has produced influential findings on infant brain function and shaped public policy, including her 2022 testimony contributing to the expansion of New York's Empire State Child Credit for children aged 0-3. Key publications include the 2015 Nature Neuroscience article 'Family Income, Parental Education and Brain Development in Children and Adolescents,' which linked socioeconomic status to brain structure variations; 'Neural Correlates of Socioeconomic Status in the Developing Human Brain' (2012, Developmental Science); and 'Socioeconomic Disparities in Neurocognitive Development in the First Two Years of Life' (2015, Developmental Psychobiology). Noble has received the 2021 American Psychological Association Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest (Senior Career), the 2017 Association for Psychological Science Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions, and is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science. She has delivered a TED Talk viewed over 2.5 million times, provided keynote lectures, and consulted for organizations such as Sesame Workshop and the National Academies of Sciences. Noble mentors over 20 students, has graduated seven doctoral students, and supports faculty recruitment and curriculum development at Teachers College.