ISDP Awards Committee
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Announcing the 2025 ISDP Award Winners:
- Rovee-Collier Mentor Award – Patricia Brennan, PhD, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor, Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, USA
- Senior Investigator Award – Nathan A. Fox, PhD, Distinguished University Professor
University of Maryland, Human Development and Quantitative Methodology, College Park, USA - Distinguished Service Award – Rick Richardson, PhD, Professor
School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia - Sandra G. Wiener Student Investigator Award – Jessica F. Sperber, Doctoral Candidate in Developmental Psychology, Teachers College, Columbia University New York, USA
- David Kucharski Young Investigator Award – Lauren C. Shuffrey, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital at NYU Langone, Investigator, Neuroscience Institute, NYU Langone Medical Center AND – Karen E. Smith, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Rutgers University, Newark, USA
- Dissertation Award – Özlü Aran, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Associate
Research on Integrated and Early Development (REID) Lab, College of Science, Northeastern University, Boston, USA
- ISDP Student/Postdoc Member Travel and/or Abstract Awards (Student Members and Early-Career members who are still Postdocs) for ISDP 2025 Meeting. Application is through the online Abstract Submission Form, submission deadline extended to June 16, 2025.
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Announcing the 2020 FABBS Early Career Impact Award Winner:
Announcing the 2020 ISDP Award Winners:
2020 Awards Committee: Dima Amso, Brown University (Chair); Natalie Brito, New York University and Bridget Callaghan, University of California, Los Angeles
- Sandra G. Wiener Student Investigator Award, Denise M. Werchan, PhD, Dept. of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences, Brown University
– Mentor: – Dima Amso, PhD, Brown University (Now Columbia University in the City) - Dissertation Award, Morgan Reiss Firestein, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, Division of Developmental Neuroscience, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY USA
– Postdoctoral Mentor: William Fifer, PhD, Columbia University in the City; Dissertation Mentor: Frances Champagne, Columbia University in the City - David Kucharski Young Investigator Award, Natalie Hiromi Brito, PhD, Assistant Professor of Developmental Psychology, Department of Applied Psychology, NYU
- Senior Investigator Award, Mark S. Blumberg, PhD, Wendell Miller Professor, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, University of Iowa
- Rovee-Collier Mentor Award, Martha Ann Bell, PhD, Department of Psychology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
- Hennessy-Smotherman Wiley Best Student Paper Award for the journal Developmental Psychobiology, Julia E. Morgan, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, UCSF
- Best Poster Award: Giana Isabella Teresi, Stanford University
- People’s Choice Best Poster Award: Joscelin Rocha Hidalgo, Georgetown University
Thanks to our grantors, sponsors and exhibitors
Thank you to all of our sponsors, who have generously supported ISDP Student & Postdoc Member Travel Awards as well as selected Symposium Speaker’s travel. Funding for these awards was generously provided by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, John Wiley and Sons Publishing, (publishers of the ISDP’s official journal, Developmental Psychobiology, the Division of Developmental Neuroscience in Psychiatry at Columbia University, MagstimEGI, Brain Vision, LLC, The Trust Insurance Programs, ANT Neuro, Zero to Three and the members of the ISDP. Thanks to all our generous sponsors and exhibitors!
These were the 2019 ISDP Award Winners:
2019 Awards Committee: Amanda Tarullo, Boston University (Chair); Dima Amso, Brown University; and Natalie Brito, New York University
- Rovee-Collier Mentor Award, Joanne Weinberg, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
- Senior Investigator Award, Martha Ann Bell, Professor of Psychology, Virginia Tech
- Distinguished Service Award, George F. Michel, Professor, Department of Psychology, The University of North Caroline at Greensboro
- Sandra G. Wiener Student Investigator Award, Raha Hassan, Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMasters University – Mentor: – Louis Schmidt, PhD
- David Kucharski Young Investigator Award, Bridget L. Callaghan, Assistant Professor of Psychology, The University of California, Los Angeles
- Dissertation Award, Virginia C. Salo, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stress and Early Adversity Laboratory, Vanderbilt University, Department of Psychology and Human Development, Nashville, Research – Postdoctoral Mentor: Kathryn L. Humphreys, PhD, Ed.M.; Dissertation Mentor: Nathan Fox, PhD
- Hennessy-Smotherman Wiley Best Student Paper Award for the journal Developmental Psychobiology, Sarah L Blankenship, Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland for her first author paper: “Early parenting predicts hippocampal subregion volume via stress reactivity in childhood”, First published: 04 October 2018 https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.21788
- Best Poster Award: Paul Bloom for his poster presentation: MULTIVERSE ANALYSIS STRATEGIES FOR DEVELOPMENTAL FMRI
- Best Perinatal Poster: Amirah Hurst for her poster presentation: LONG TERM CONSEQUENCES OF EARLY LIFE OPIOID EXPOSURE ON THE BRAIN
- People’s Choice Best Poster Award: Cynthia Rodriguez for her poster presentation: DELAYED MATURATION OF VISUAL EVOKED POTENTIALS IN NEWBORNS OF GESTATIONAL DIABETIC MOTHERS
Thank you to all of our sponsors, who have generously supported ISDP Student & Postdoc Member Travel Awards as well as selected Symposium Speaker’s travel. Funding for these awards was generously provided by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR), John Wiley and Sons Publishing, (publishers of the ISDP’s official journal, Developmental Psychobiology, the Division of Developmental Neuroscience in Psychiatry at Columbia University, the Nurture Science Project at Columbia University, as well as our Industry Sponsors: Philips Neuro, Positive Science and Zero to Three and the members of the ISDP. Thanks to all our generous sponsors and exhibitors!