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<span p style="colortext-align: rgb(51, 51, 51)center; font-family">[[File: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serifHM.png|250px|Selfie headshot!]]&nbsp; </p><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 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;the college's Schaffer Library, before moving to California to begin her Ph.D.</span> <p span style="textfont-alignsize: rightmedium; ">[[File: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), Hristinajoined 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.jpg]]</pspan> <span style="colorfont-size: rgbmedium;">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 (51Mechanical Engineering), 51who would later become her senior thesis advisor, 51played 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; font-family: Helveticafrom the very first UIF assignments, Arialthrough grad school reference letters, sansand into present-serif; day openness to collaboration.</span> <span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 17pxmedium;">Mathematics[https://youtu.be/GI9oUF5dsW8 Idea Lab] opened in 2016. Hristina, the first UIF from Union College, was succeeded by Sean Farrell (Mechanical Engineering) and many 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="colorfont-size: rgb(51medium;">. 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 the youngest Ph.D. candidate in her class year, 51speaks 5 languages and has lived in 3 different countries. Her demeanor is people-oriented, 51); fontuser- and team-family: Helveticacentric, Arialenergetic, sans-serif; and positive reinforcement driven.</span> <span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 17pxmedium;">Hristina's excellent academic performance While her schedule involves research, teaching, and extensive leadership USC campus involvement granted her , she will always find the opportunity to advance innovation, entrepreneurship, time for collaboration with local industries and creativity at Union College as a University Innovation Fellowprofessionals.</span> <br/span style="font-size: medium;">Hristina is a huge fan of art museum<br/span><span style="colorfont-size: rgb(51medium;">s, stand-up comedy, caffeine, 51Los Angeles, 51); font-familyand conversations surrounding topics of gender. If you press play under [https: Helvetica//translate.google.com/#en/el/Christina this translation], Arial, sans-serif; you can learn how to pronou</span><span style="font-size: 13pxmedium; line">nce her first name.</span> <span style="font-heightsize: 17pxmedium;">At Union College, Connect with Hristina holds the position of Chair on&nbsp;[https://www.linkedin.com/in the Engineering Student Forum/hristinamilojevic/ LinkedIn],&nbsp;[https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Hristina_Milojevic ResearchGate], and has recently founded The Women's Network with support of faculty advisors&nbsp;[https://twitter. She was also the Vice President of ASME Student Chaptercom/thehristina/ Twitter], and has worked as a tutor for mechanical engineeringvia&nbsp;[mailto:milojevi@usc.edu email].</span> <br/span style="font-size:medium;">Authored Papers:<br/span> <span style="colorfont-size: rgb(51medium;">Milojevic, H. and Jin, 51Y. “Building a Social-Cognitive Framework for Design: Personality and Design Self-Efficacy Effects on Pro-Design Behaviors”, 51)in&nbsp;''Proceedings of''&nbsp;''Design Computing and Cognition DCC’18,&nbsp; font''July 2-family: Helvetica4, 2018, ArialMilan, sansItaly. [[http://impact1.usc.edu/wp-serif; content/uploads/conference-pp/C83-DCC2018-HM-YJ.pdf PDF]]</span> <span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 17pxmedium;">Hristina's interests range from fluid mechanics to international relationsMilojevic, H., Girardello, A., Zhang, Z. She will be joining a mechanical engineering research program this summer, and expects to continue her academic and professional growth Jin, Y. Influence of Thinking Style on Design Creativity. in &nbsp;''Proceedings of the direction of technological&nbsp;4nd International Conference on Design Creativity (ICDC2016), creative&nbsp;''November 2-4,&nbsp;''2016, and social innovation.&nbsp;<''Atlanta, USA. [[http://impact1.usc.edu/wp-content/uploads/span><brconference-pp/>C79-ICDC2016-HM-YJ.pdf PDF]]<br/span> <span style="colorfont-size: rgb(51medium;">Milojevic, H., Jin, Y. “Influence of Mindset on Design Performance”, 51In&nbsp;''Proceedings of Design Creativity Workshop 2016'', 51Evanston (Chicago); font-family: Helvetica, ArialUSA, June 26, sans2016. [[http://impact1.usc.edu/wp-content/uploads/conference-pp/C76-DCW2016-serif; fontHM-YJ.pdf PDF]]</span><p style="text-sizealign: 13pxcenter; line">[[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-heightalign: 17pxcenter;">Hristina is also fully bilingual, with high conversational proficiency in three other languages[[File:HristinaIdeaLab. At her age of 21, she has already lived and studied jpg|600px|First visit to the brand new Idea Lab in three different countries. She enjoys visiting new places and meeting people from vastly different backgroundsearly 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]]