Awards / News

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!

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.
Awards / News

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.