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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;">Through generous sponsorship of Professor Harold Fried (now Emeritus, Entrepreneurship), Professor Shane Cotter (Bioengineering) and Dean of Studies Wendy Sternberg (now Vice President for Academic Affairs at Occidental College), Hristina joined the program that would elevate her identity beyond that of a traditional engineering student and continue to guide her research and career interests to-date.</span> <span style="font-familysize: arialmedium;">Once a UIF, helveticaHristina 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, played a crucial project ideation role, as 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, sansco-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;"from the very first UIF assignments, through grad school reference letters, and into present-day openness to collaboration.</span> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); linefont-heightsize: 17pxmedium;">[https://youtu.be/GI9oUF5dsW8 Idea Lab] opened in 2016. Hristina's excellent academic performance and extensive leadership involvement granted her , the opportunity to advance innovation, entrepreneurshipfirst UIF from Union College, was succeeded by Sean Farrell (Mechanical Engineering) and creativity at Union College as a University Innovation Fellowmany wonderful teams of fellows over the years.</span> <brspan style="font-size:medium;">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]<br/span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); linefont-heightsize: 17pxmedium;">. 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, likes to dwell in domains of user experience and fluid dynamics. At Union College26, Hristina holds she is the position of Chair youngest Ph.D. candidate in the Engineering Student Forumher class year, speaks 5 languages and has recently founded The Women's Network with support of faculty advisorslived in 3 different countries. She was also the Vice President of ASME Student ChapterHer demeanor is people-oriented, user- and team-centric, energetic, and has worked as a tutor for mechanical engineeringpositive reinforcement driven.</span> <br/span style="font-size:medium;">While her schedule involves research, teaching, and USC campus involvement, she will always find the time for collaboration with local industries and professionals.<br/span> <span style="colorfont-size: rgb(51, 51, 51)medium; line">Hristina is a huge fan of art museum</span><span style="font-heightsize: 17pxmedium;">Hristina's interests range from fluid mechanics to international relations. She will be joining a mechanical engineering research program this summer, and expects to continue her academic and professional growth in the direction of technologicalstand-up comedy, caffeine, creativeLos Angeles, and social innovationconversations surrounding topics of gender. If you press play under [https://translate.google.&nbsp;com/#en/el/Christina this translation], you can learn how to pronou</span><br/span style="font-size: medium;">nce her first name.<br/span> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); linefont-heightsize: 17pxmedium;">Connect with Hristina is also fully bilingualon&nbsp;[https://www.linkedin.com/in/hristinamilojevic/ LinkedIn], with high conversational proficiency in three other languages&nbsp;[https://www.researchgate. At her age of 21net/profile/Hristina_Milojevic ResearchGate], she has already lived and studied in three different countries&nbsp;[https://twitter. She enjoys visiting new places com/thehristina/ Twitter], and meeting people from vastly different backgrounds.via&nbsp;[mailto:milojevi@usc.edu email].</span> </spanstyle="font-size:medium;">Authored Papers:</span> <p span style="textfont-alignsize: centermedium;">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. [[Filehttp:Hristina//impact1.usc.edu/wp-content/uploads/conference-pp/C83-DCC2018-HM-YJ.jpgpdf PDF]]</pspan> <span style="font-size:smallmedium;">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-familysize: arialmedium;">Milojevic, H., helveticaJin, sans-serifY. “Influence of Mindset on Design Performance”, In&nbsp;">Contact Hristina at ''hristina@universityinnovation.orgProceedings of Design Creativity Workshop 2016'', or connect on LinkedInEvanston (Chicago), USA, June 26, 2016. [[http: ''linkedin//impact1.usc.comedu/wp-content/uploads/inconference-pp/thehristinamilojevic''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.]]</spanp>== 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 Contributors|h]][[Category:Student Contributors]]