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<p style="text-align: center;">[[File:HM.png|250px|Selfie headshot!]]&nbsp;</p><span style="font-size:smallmedium;">Hristina Milojevic first joined University Innovation Fellows mid-way through her bachelor's degree at Union College in Schenectady, New York. There, she established U-CREATE campus-wide creativity initiative and planned out the Idea Lab, a makerspace in the college's Schaffer Library, before moving to California to begin her Ph.D.</span> <span style="font-familysize: arialmedium;">Through generous sponsorship of Professor Harold Fried (now Emeritus, helveticaEntrepreneurship), Professor Shane Cotter (Bioengineering) and Dean of Studies Wendy Sternberg (now Vice President for Academic Affairs at Occidental College), sansHristina 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-serifsize:medium;">Once 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, 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, co-signing 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="colorfont-size: medium;">[https: rgb(51//youtu.be/GI9oUF5dsW8 Idea Lab] opened in 2016. Hristina, 51the first UIF from Union College, 51was succeeded by Sean Farrell (Mechanical Engineering); lineand many wonderful teams of fellows over the years.</span> <span style="font-heightsize: 17pxmedium;">Hristina Milojevic is now a third 4th year undergraduate Ph.D. student in mechanical engineering at Union College University of Southern California in New YorkLos 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-size: medium;">. 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 26, she is majoring the youngest Ph.D. candidate in Mechanical Engineering her class year, speaks 5 languages and has lived in 3 different countries. Her demeanor is people-oriented, user- and team-centric, energetic, and positive reinforcement driven.</span> <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.</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 minoring 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="colorfont-size: rgbmedium;">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 (51ICDC2016),&nbsp;''November 2-4, 51&nbsp;''2016, 51)&nbsp; line''Atlanta, USA. [[http://impact1.usc.edu/wp-content/uploads/conference-pp/C79-ICDC2016-HM-YJ.pdf PDF]]</span> <span style="font-heightsize: 17pxmedium; ">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: rightcenter;">Mathematics[[File:HristinaElliotBre.jpg|High energy and high fives at the Epicenter Research Summit (2014) with co-presenters Elliot Roth and Bre Przestrzelski.]]</spanp></spanp style="text-align: center;">[[File:HristinaIdeaLab.jpg|600px|First visit to the brand new Idea Lab in early 2016.]]</spanp>== Related Links ==

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