Graduate students who entered the program Fall 2010
Toi Sin Arvidsson. In a country rich with opportunities for anyone to become anything they desire, to become social activists who strive for the good of human kind, to become entrepreneurs or artistic spirits who dance to the tunes that touch their heart, how do we best help our new generation of youths equip themselves to fully realize their potentials and find long lasting inspiration that give them a happy and satisfying life? It is my passion to find the answer of such question. Moving from doing technical work in the profit driven private sector to becoming a counselor at a halfway home and coming in contact everyday with underserved populations opened my eyes to finding what is inspirational to my life. I am here at SFSU to realize it. I hope I will help the next generation to find the same. Toi Sin was accepted to the Ph.D. program in Human Development at Columbia University to begin in the fall of 2012.
Brea Kelsey. Brea graduated from California State University, San Bernardino with a B.A. in Finance in 2005 and from San Francisco State University with a B.A. in Psychology in 2010. As an undergrad she worked in a family context lab emphasizing the difference of divorced and intact families, and continues to work in that lab as a graduate student. Her research interest are in family relations and behavioral problems.
Maysa Mohajer. Maysa
graduated from the the University of California, Riverside with
a B.A. in psychology in 2009. She was a research assistant in
three labs: a child development lab that studied parent-child
relationships, a child development lab that studied bullying in
pre-adolescents, and a personality traits and goal attainment
lab. Additionally, Maysa has extensive experience volunteering
and tutoring children. Her research interests include
parent-child relationships and culture, assimilation and
acculturation, personality, gender-typing, and sociometrics.
Trang Nguyen.
Trang graduated in 2007 from the University of California, Davis
with a B.S. in Psychology. Trang
has experience working with children with autism and
neurodevelopmental disorders at the MIND Institute at the UC
Davis Medical Center. She spent lots of time volunteering in
preschool classrooms before working in the areas of Mental
Health and Disabilities for a Federal preschool program,
overseeing social and emotional, language, and over all
development assessments and referrals. This job position gave
her the motivation to pursue a Master's Degree. Some of Trang's
interests are children's social and emotional development,
mental health, cognition, social-cultural impacts, and
personality research.
Ian Vianu. Ian graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz with a B.A. in psychology in 2009. He was a research assistant in two labs: a child development lab where he studied parent child interaction and a cognitive modeling lab where he studied multitasking. Ian has also worked in the mental health field. He held a number of positions working in educational and clinical environments with developmentally disabled adults and children as well as mentally ill adults. His research interests include development of musical ability in children, specifically how perfect pitch develops, music cognition, theory of mind development, and the development of executive functioning.
