News

2024

• Jo Nisa Cabilogan has been selected to participate in the 2024 Dream Summer Fellowship at UCLA out of 750 applicants. She will be working as a fellow in the Dream Resource Center to work on their research project about the educational experiences of AAPI undocumented students in California, New York, and Texas.
• Dr. Mello's Symposium on Time Perspective accepted for presentation at ISSBD.
• Dr. Mello was elected to the Board of Directors for the Society of Research on Adolescence.
• Dr. Mello was Program Co-Chair for the Society for Research on Adolescence 2024 Conference.
• Tiffany Wong was accepted into all of her Master's programs and will be a graduate student at San Jose State University's Research/Experimental Psychology M.A. program in the fall.

2023

• Dr. Mello featured in SFSU Marketing and Communications. Link
• Dr. Mello joins Health Equity Institute as a Faculty Affiliate.
• Dayanne Liseth Herrera Suarez was awarded the Cornelius Hopper Diversity Supplement by Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program entitled "Immigration, Mental Health, and Tobacco Use Among Adolscents" for $20,000.
• Tiffany Wong was awarded the Cornelius Hopper Diversity Supplement by Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program entitled "Research Methods for Examining Tobacco Use Among Adolescents" for $20,000.
• Dr. Mello's research was highlighted in the European Association for Research on Adolescence Newsletter
• Dr. Mello will Chair a session entitled "The Developmental Significance of Skin Color" at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Human Development in Philadelphia, PA on October 13-15, 2023
• Dr. Mello will present a paper entitled "Wealth and Health: Examining how Classism is Associated with Tobacco Use Among Adolescents" at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Human Development in Philadelphia, PA on October 13-15, 2023
• İlke Bayazıtlı was accepted to the School Psychology Ph.D. program at University of California, Berkeley.
• Daniel Grafil was accepted to the School Psychology M.S. program at San Francisco State University.
• Dr. Mello's (PI) EAGER proposal, “Developing a New Tool to Measure Discrimination Based on Social Class for Adolescents,” was recommended for funding by the National Science Foundation.
• Jo Nisa Cabilogan's poster submission, "Examining the Association Between Perceived Discrimination Based on Immigration and Tobacco Use Among Asian-American Immigrant Adolescents," was accepted to the annual meeting of the Society of Research on Adolescence.
• İlke Bayazıtlı's poster submission, "Time Beyond Personality: Time Perspective, Personality Traits, and Academic Achievement Among Adolescents," was accepted to the annual meeting of the Society of Research on Adolescence.
• Julia Moon's poster submission, "Sexism Shapes Lives: How Perceived Discrimination Based on Gender is Associated With Health Outcomes Among Adolescents," was accepted to the annual meeting of the Society of Research on Adolescence.
• Betsy Centeno's submission, "The Colors of Drugs: The Association Between Colorism and Substance Use Among Latinx Adolescents," was accepted as a constructed paper symposium to the annual meeting of the Society of Research on Adolescence.
• Dr. Mello's submission, "Show Me the Money: Introducing a New Conceptual Model for Examining Perceived Discrimination Based on Social Class Among Adolescents,” was accepted as a constructed paper symposium to the annual meeting of the Society of Research on Adolescence that will be held in San Diego in April 2023.

2022

• Jo Nisa Cabilogan was awarded the Continue the Dream for Academic Excellence Scholarship.
• Jo Nisa Cabilogan was awarded the College of Science and Engineering/Associated Students Scholarship.
• Jo Nisa Cabilogan was awarded the University Scholarship.
• Betsy Centeno was awarded the National Latinx Psychological Association (NLPA) Student Travel Award.
• İlke Bayazıtlı was awarded the Robert W. Maxwell Memorial Scholarship for graduate students in the College of Science and Engineering.
• İlke Bayazıtlı was awarded the Associated Students Jack Adams Memorial Scholarship.
• Dr. Mello was awarded the COVID Recovery Administrative Supplement by Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program entitled "Racial and gender discrimination, tobacco use, and time perspective among adolescents" for $100,000.
• İlke Bayazıtlı was awarded the Cornelius Hopper Diversity Supplement by Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program entitled "Delay discounting and tobacco use among racial/ethnic minority adolescents" for $20,000.
• Jo Nisa Cabilogan was awarded the Cornelius Hopper Diversity Supplement by Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program entitled "Immigration status and tobacco use among racial/ethnic minority adolescents" for $20,000.
• Betsy Centeno was selected to participate in the NSF Mentee-Mentor Emerging Scholars Program and awarded the #ConstructingTheOther NSF Emerging Scholar Travel Award.
• Betsy Centeno was awarded the Graduate Student Award for Distinguished Achievement.
• Dr. Mello was awarded a grant by Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program entitled "Tobacco use and perceived discrimination based on socioeconomic status among adolescents" for $766,734.
• İlke Bayazıtlı was designated as Student Life Manager in the Summer 2022 session of the Brown University Pre-College Program.
• Dr. Mello was elected to the Monte Rio Unified District School Board.
• İlke Bayazıtlı was awarded the Diana T. Y. Chung & Henry W. S. Chung Memorial Scholarship for International Students.
• Jo Nisa Cabilogan was awarded the Continue the Dream for Academic Excellence Scholarship
• Jo Nisa Cabilogan was awarded the University Scholarship
• Jo Nisa Cabilogan was awarded the College of Science and Engineering/Associated Students Scholarship

2021

• Dr. Mello has joined the Editorial Board of the Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology.
• Undergraduate Research Assistant Catriona Clohessy was admitted into the MA program in Nursing at the University of San Francisco.
• The Time Lab started its own YouTube channel to get the word out! 
• Finding Refuge, co-founded by Graduate Research Assistant Lena Azzouz, was awarded a grant of £2000 from the UK Lush Charity Pot.
• A new article published by Dr. Mello in the European Journal of Psychological Assessment is now available online.
• Dr. Mello and Julia Moon presented Examining Associations Between Time Perspective Dimensions and Tobacco Use in Three Samples of American Adolescents at the 5th International Conference on Time Perspectives.
• Betsy Centeno contributed to San Francisco State University's surveys and studies on First-Year Student Retention During COVID-19 and First-Year Experience During Remote Learning
• Betsy Centeno was awarded the Sally Casanova Pre-Doctoral Scholarship.
• Dr. Mello was selected to congratulate the class of 2021 as a part of the virtual commencement.
• Jena D'Amico was admitted into the MA program in Marriage and Family Therapy at Chapman University.
• Jules Kutner was admitted into the MA program in Social Psychology and Affective Science at San Francisco State University.
• Jesse Simnegar was admitted into the MA program in Social Psychology and Affective Science at San Francisco State University.
• Dr. Mello featured in the San Francisco State University CampusMemo newsletter on receiving funding from the Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program to study tobacco use and discrimination in adolescents.

2020

• Dr. Mello was awarded grant by Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program entitled "Racial and gender discrimination, tobacco use, and time perspective among adolescents" for $619,228.
• Dr. Mello was invited to be Assistant Editor at Journal of Adolescence.
• Jules Kutner was accepted into the Undergraduate Psychology Honors Program with her project entitled “Racial discrimination and occupational expectations in adolescents.”
• Erick Romero was accepted into the Undergraduate Psychology Honors Program with his project entitled “Ethnic identity and time perspective in Latinx adolescents.”
• Jesse Simnegar was accepted into the Undergraduate Psychology Honors Program with his project entitled “Is time money? How is time perspective associated with socioeconomic status in adolescents?”
• Liliana Moore compiled a list of resources entitled "Black Lives Matter: Resources for Anti-Racism," which was published on the San Francisco State University Institute for Civic and Community Engagement website.
• Lena Azzouz opened a community housing center in Athens, Greece for homeless refugees. The center, part of Finding Refuge Greece, has become home to refugees from countries all over the world including Syria, Cameroon, Iraq, Somalia, and Afghanistan. https://www.findingrefugegr.com/duniya-2
• Lena Azzouz launched the LEAD program (Language Education and Development) through Finding Refuge Greece, which connects unemployed, Arabic-speaking refugees, migrants, and asylum seekers in Greece with students from all over the world who are interested in learning Arabic. https://www.findingrefugegr.com/aboutlead

2019

• Dr. Mello guest-edited a special issue entitled Time Perspective from Adolescence through Adulthood for the journal of Research in Human Development.
• Dr. Mello was invited to join the editorial board for the Journal of Adolescence. 
• Julia Moon was awarded the Robert W. Maxwell Memorial Scholarship for graduate students in the College of Science and Engineering.
• Dr. Mello gave invited presentation "The psychology of time: How time perspectives are associated with health and human development" at San Diego State University.
• Julia Moon featured in SF State News: "Five SF State students take the top prizes at CSU Student Research Competition". 
• Lindsey Seril, Jennifer Wahleitner, Jack Chase, and Stephanie Kirkman received the 3rd place award in the Behavioral Science Graduate Division of the College of Science and Engineering Student Research Showcase at San Francisco State University for their poster "He was elected and now we will change the world: A mixed-methods study examining adolescents' reactions to the election of Donald Trump."
• Julia Moon received the 1st place award in the Behavioral Science Graduate Division of the College of Science and Engineering Student Research Showcase at San Francisco State University for her poster "Time and trepidation: Are adolescents' thoughts and feelings about time related to their anxiety?"
• Julia Moon received the 1st place award in the Behavioral and Social Sciences Graduate Division of the California State University Student Research Competition at California State University Fullerton for her presentation "Time and trepidation: An examination of thoughts and feelings about the past, present, and future and anxiety among adolescents."
• Dr. Mello gave invited presentation "A healthy time perspective? How thoughts and feelings about the past, present, and future are associated with psychological well-being and risky behaviors among adolescents" at the Midwestern Psychological Association.
• Julia Moon received the 1st place award in the Behavioral and Social Sciences Category of the California State University Student Research Competition at San Francisco State University for her presentation "Time and trepidation: An examination of thoughts and feelings about the past, present, and future and anxiety among adolescents."