Graduate School of Art announces courtesy appointments in Master of Design program

The Sam Fox School’s Graduate School of Art has named four WashU educators as affiliate faculty to its new Master of Design for Human-Computer Interaction and Emerging Technology program. They include Caitlin Kelleher and Alvitta Ottley from the McKelvey School of Engineering, Maura Kepper from the Brown School, and Diane Wei Lewis from Arts & Sciences. Both Kelleher and Lewis will teach required coursework in the MDes program.

The affiliate faculty join six Sam Fox School faculty — including program chair Jonathan Hanahan — to offer a variety of deeply researched perspectives to MDes students, emphasizing the spirit of cross-university collaboration embedded in the program. Dave Walsh, a lecturer in American Culture Studies in Arts & Sciences, will also teach in the program.

The MDes program invites graduate students to pursue innovative and ethically minded digital product design. Graduates will be poised to advance their careers as designers, entrepreneurs, startup leaders, and academics. The program will welcome its inaugural cohort in the fall 2025 semester.

For a complete list of faculty teaching in the new Master of Design for Human-Computer Interaction and Emerging Technology program, visit samfoxschool.washu.edu/mdes.