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<span p style="fonttext-sizealign:smallcenter;"><span style="font-family[[File: arial, helvetica, sans-serifHM.png|250px|Selfie headshot!]]&nbsp;"</p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); linefont-heightsize: 17pxmedium;">Hristina Milojevic is a third year undergraduate first joined University Innovation Fellows mid-way through her bachelor's degree at Union College in Schenectady, New York. She is majoring in Mechanical Engineering There, she established U-CREATE campus-wide creativity initiative and minoring planned out the Idea Lab, a makerspace in&nbsp;</span><span style="color: rgb(51the college's Schaffer Library, 51, 51); line-height: 17px; text-align: right;">Mathematicsbefore moving to California to begin her Ph.D.</span></span></span>

<span style="font-size:smallmedium;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgbThrough generous sponsorship of Professor Harold Fried (51now Emeritus, 51, 51Entrepreneurship); line-height: 17px;">Hristina's excellent academic performance and extensive leadership involvement granted her the opportunity to advance innovation, entrepreneurship, and creativity at Union College as a University Innovation Fellow.</span><br/><br/><span style="color: rgbProfessor Shane Cotter (51, 51, 51Bioengineering); line-height: 17px;">At Union College, Hristina holds the position of Chair in the Engineering Student Forum, and has recently founded The Women's Network with support Dean of faculty advisors. She was also the Studies Wendy Sternberg (now Vice President of ASME Student Chapter, and has worked as a tutor for mechanical engineering.</span><br/><br/><span style="color: rgb(51, 51Academic Affairs at Occidental College), 51); line-height: 17px;">Hristina's interests range from fluid mechanics to international relations. She will be joining joined the program that would elevate her identity beyond that of a mechanical traditional engineering research program this summer, student and expects continue to continue guide her academic research and professional growth in the direction of technological, creative, and social innovation.&nbsp;</span><br/><br/><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 17px;">Hristina is also fully bilingual, with high conversational proficiency in three other languages. At her age of 21, she has already lived and studied in three different countries. She enjoys visiting new places and meeting people from vastly different backgrounds.&nbsp;</span></span></span><p style="text-align: center;">[[File:Hristina.jpg]]</p><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sanscareer interests to-serif;">Contact Hristina at ''hristina@universityinnovationdate.org'', or connect on LinkedIn: ''linkedin.com/in/thehristinamilojevic.''</span></span>

== <span style="font-size:smallmedium;"><span style="font-family: arialOnce a UIF, Hristina surrounded herself with faculty and administrators who shared her passion for intersectionality of engineering and the liberal arts. Professor Ronald Bucinell (Mechanical Engineering), who would later become her senior thesis advisor, helveticaplayed a crucial project ideation role, sansas did Frances Maloy (Director of Schaffer Library) and Professor Erika Nelson (German Studies). Dean of First Year Students Kate Schurick helped Hristina commit to the #UIFresh initiative to integrate the UIF experience into the first year orientation activities, co-serifsigning a letter of intent to former President Obama. Hristina is forever grateful to Humera Fasihuddin and Leticia Britos Cavagnaro for their continued help and celebration of success;">For information about innovation at Union Collegefrom the very first UIF assignments, through grad school reference letters, please see the following:&nbsp;and into present-day openness to collaboration.</span></span> ==

<span style="font-size:smallmedium;"><span style="font-family[https: arial, helvetica//youtu.be/GI9oUF5dsW8 Idea Lab] opened in 2016. Hristina, sans-serif;">[[the first UIF from Union College]]</span>, was succeeded by Sean Farrell (Mechanical Engineering) and many wonderful teams of fellows over the years.</span>

<span style="font-size:smallmedium;">Hristina is now a 4th year Ph.D. student in mechanical engineering at University of Southern California in Los Angeles. She focuses on thinking and creativity behind engineering design, and works for&nbsp;[http://impact1.usc.edu/ USC Impact Lab]</span><span style="font-familysize: arialmedium;">. Her doctoral studies began the same year her bachelor’s degree was obtained. Hristina is an innovation and tech entrepreneurship enthusiast who, aside from design, helveticalikes to dwell in domains of user experience and fluid dynamics. At 26, sansshe is the youngest Ph.D. candidate in her class year, speaks 5 languages and has lived in 3 different countries. Her demeanor is people-serif;">[[Union College Strategic Priorities]]</span>oriented, user- and team-centric, energetic, and positive reinforcement driven.</span>

<span style="font-size: medium;">Hristina is a huge fan of art museum</span><span style="font-size:medium;">s, stand-up comedy, caffeine, Los Angeles, and conversations surrounding topics of gender. If you press play under [https://translate.google.com/#en/el/Christina this translation], you can learn how to pronou</span><span style="font-size: medium;">nce her first name.</span> <span style="font-size:medium;">Connect with Hristina on&nbsp;[https://www.linkedin.com/in/hristinamilojevic/ LinkedIn],&nbsp;[https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Hristina_Milojevic ResearchGate],&nbsp;[https://twitter.com/thehristina/ Twitter], and via&nbsp;[mailto:milojevi@usc.edu email].</span> <span style="font-size:medium;">Authored Papers:</span> <span style="font-size:medium;">Milojevic, H. and Jin, Y. “Building a Social-Cognitive Framework for Design: Personality and Design Self-Efficacy Effects on Pro-Design Behaviors”, in&nbsp;''Proceedings of''&nbsp;''Design Computing and Cognition DCC’18,&nbsp;''July 2-4, 2018, Milan, Italy. [[http://impact1.usc.edu/wp-content/uploads/conference-pp/C83-DCC2018-HM-YJ.pdf PDF]]</span> <span style="font-size:medium;">Milojevic, H., Girardello, A., Zhang, Z., Jin, Y. Influence of Thinking Style on Design Creativity. in&nbsp;''Proceedings of the&nbsp;4nd International Conference on Design Creativity (ICDC2016),&nbsp;''November 2-4,&nbsp;''2016,&nbsp;''Atlanta, USA. [[http://impact1.usc.edu/wp-content/uploads/conference-pp/C79-ICDC2016-HM-YJ.pdf PDF]]</span> <span style="font-size:medium;">Milojevic, H., Jin, Y. “Influence of Mindset on Design Performance”, In&nbsp;''Proceedings of Design Creativity Workshop 2016'', Evanston (Chicago), USA, June 26, 2016. [[http://impact1.usc.edu/wp-content/uploads/conference-pp/C76-DCW2016-HM-YJ.pdf PDF]]</span><p style="text-align: center;">[[File:HristinaElliotBre.jpg|High energy and high fives at the Epicenter Research Summit (2014) with co-presenters Elliot Roth and Bre Przestrzelski.]]</p><p style="text-align: center;">[[File:HristinaIdeaLab.jpg|600px|First visit to the brand new Idea Lab in early 2016.]]</p>== Related Links == [[Union College]] [[Union College Strategic Priorities|'''Union College Student Priorities''']] University Innovation Fellows Spring 2016: [[Robert Barsamian]] [[Lakhena Leang]] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Vera_Marsova Vera Marsova&nbsp;] [[Luke McCaffrey]] [[Arielle singer|Arielle Singer]] Spring 2015: [[Sean Farrell]] Spring 2014: '''Hristina Milojevic&nbsp;''' [[Category:Student ContributorContributors|Student_Contributorh]][[Category:Student Contributors]]