Kyuha “Q” Shim, after an incredible 7 year career at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Design as an Associate Professor and Director of Computational Creativity Lab, will be leaving CMU to join the Korea National University of Arts as a Professor of Convergence Design. 

The School of Design Associate Professor Molly Wright Steenson has been named the new Vice Provost for Faculty at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Steenson is also the K&L Gates Associate Professor of Ethics & Computational Technology. From 2018–21, she was Sr. Associate Dean for Research in the College of Fine Arts.

Dina El-Zanfaly, an Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Design, was recently named a Research Scholar by Google. The Research Scholar Program aims to support early-career professors who are pursuing research in fields relevant to Google and provides unrestricted gifts to support research at institutions around the world, and is focused on funding world-class research conducted by early-career professors. El-Zanfaly is one of six CMU professors to win the award this year and is the first representative to come from the College of Fine Arts.

Stacie Rohrbach, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Design, was recently award the Henry Hornbostel Teaching Award. The Hornbostel Award, which is the College of Fine Arts' annual recognition for teaching excellence, is named after Henry Hornbostel (1867 – 1961), the first Dean of the College of Fine Arts and the architect and designer of several Carnegie Mellon University buildings including the College of Fine Arts Building, Baker Hall, Doherty Hall, Hammerschlag Hall and Margaret Morrison Carnegie Hall.