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2014 GDC Scholars Announced, plus E3 Application Now Open

5 Feb 2014

Please welcome the 2014 Game Developers Conference Scholars!

  • Raghav Bashyal (University of Southern California, USA)
  • Sherol Chen (UC Santa Cruz, USA)
  • Kenneth Chong (UC Irvine, USA)
  • Caitlin Goodale (University of Abertay, Dundee, Scotland)
  • Anders Hillestad (NITH – The Norwegian School of IT, Norway)
  • Jacob Jackson (Champlain College, USA)
  • Matthew Lee (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
  • Andrew Macdonald (University of Abertay, Dundee, Scotland)
  • Eduardo Marisca (MIT, USA)
  • Karen McCarthy (Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy, USA)
  • Erich Schuler (Southern Polytechnic State University, USA)
  • Chad Toprak (RMIT, Australia)
  • Jonatan Van Hove (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
  • Sebastian Zethraeus (Södertörns University, Sweden)
  • Tiffany Zhang (University of Southern California, USA)

In addition, this year’s Eric Dybsand Memorial AI Scholar (awarded by the IGDA Foundation) is Matt Arvin Villas Cabanag!

Learn more about this year’s recipients on the IGDA Scholarships website. Congratulations all!

Want to be an IGDA Scholar?

Applications for the 2014 E3 Scholars program are being accepted through 23 March. Apply today!

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