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Professor Kevin Hamilton, the Dean of the College of Fine and Applied Arts and a scholar of new media in the School of Art & Design, will join the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign on February 1. Hamilton, who has led FAA since 2018, will continue to serve as Dean while the ongoing search to identify his successor proceeds. During that time, he will hold the title of Interim Associate Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation—Humanities, Arts, and Related Fields (AVCRI-HARF), pending Board of Trustees approval. He will serve as FAA dean through May 15, at which time an interim or permanent successor will serve as dean.