Awards

2026 Bethany Reeb-Sutherland Mid-Career Award – Jamie Hanson, PhD

2026 Bethany Reeb-Sutherland Mid-Career Award goes to Jamie Hanson, PhD, Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh and a Research Scientist at Pitt’s Learning Research & Development Center. His research examines the neural circuitry children and adolescents use to learn about their environments, how early life stress shapes those circuits, and why the resulting neural changes raise the risk for negative outcomes.

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Congratulations Natalie Brito and Jamie Hanson! Winners of the Newly Established ISDP Bethany Reeb-Sutherland Mid-Career Award

We have two winners of the NEW Mid-Career Award: ISDP Bethany Reeb-Sutherland Mid-Career Award. This award is given to honor the memory of Bethany Reeb-Sutherland, a promising mid-career investigator in the field of Developmental Psychobiology who was Treasurer of the ISDP at the time of her passing in November of 2020. Congratulations to Natalie Brito and Jamie Hanson!

Awards

2026 Bethany Reeb-Sutherland Mid-Career Award – Natalie Brito, PhD

2026 Bethany Reeb-Sutherland Mid-Career Award goes to Natalie Brito, Associate Professor at Columbia University and director of the Infant Studies of Learning and Neurocognitive Development (ISLAND) Lab. Using behavioral, physiological, and ecologically grounded methods, she investigates the pathways through which caregiving and environmental contexts influence brain and behavioral development. Her work aims to advance developmental theory while generating policy-relevant insights that support children and families across diverse communities.

Rachel Barr, Ph.D. is a Professor of Psychology at Georgetown University and the Director of the Georgetown Early Learning Project. Barr is interested in how young children learn so rapidly from the world around them, including learning in the digital world and multilingual environments. She has used media content as part of an early intervention parenting program. Currently she is working on a manybabies project to examine family media ecology globally. She has worked with Zerotothree to disseminate the knowledge via’s Screensense resources.
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2026 ISDP Senior Investigator Award – Rachel Barr, PhD

Rachel Barr, Ph.D. is a Professor of Psychology at Georgetown University and the Director of the Georgetown Early Learning Project. Barr is interested in how young children learn so rapidly from the world around them, including learning in the digital world and multilingual environments. She has used media content as part of an early intervention parenting program. Currently she is working on a manybabies project to examine family media ecology globally. She has worked with Zerotothree to disseminate the knowledge via’s Screensense resources.