GDC Student Scholarship Recipients
We are pleased to list the recipients of our past GDC Student Scholarship programs. Thanks to all who have participated in the past. We always receive many qualified and deserving applications from students all over the world, which makes it difficult to select only a handful of scholarship recipients each year. Good luck to all of you in your continued study of game development!
2009 GDC Student Scholarship Recipients
- Ricardo A Arango Slingsby - University of Aalborg Conpenhagen (Denmark)
- Tobias Baumann - Zurich University of the Arts (Switzerland)
- Isik Baris Fidaner - Bogazici University (Turkey)
- Sarah Brown - Cornell University
- Theresa Chen - Carnegie Mellon University Entertainment Technology Center
- Kerry Wayne Enfinger - DeVry University
- Zack Freedman - Stevens Institute of Technology
- Rachel Larsen - Art Institute of California - Orange County
- Christopher Jordan Lynn - University of Georgia
- Doug Macdonald - DigiPen Institute of Technology
- Brittnay Muckenmuller - University of South Alabama
- Alexander Mulder - Utrecht School of the Arts (The Netherlands)
- Gwendolyn Murray - Savannah College of Art & Design
- Andrew Papadopoulos - University Of Wollongong (Australia)
- Michelle Parent - Great Northern Way Campus (Canada)
- Lukasz Pasek - University of Derby (UK)
- Aylwin Po Villanueva - University of California- Irvine
- John Richardson - Emerson College
- Dan Rosenthal - American University, Washington College of Law
- Nicholas Rudzicz - McGill University (Canada)
- Karen Schrier - Columbia University
- Florian Schwarzer - University of Technology Ilmenau (Germany)
- Joseph Serra - International Academy of Design & Technology, Troy
- Daniel Starck - Blekinge Institute of Technology (Sweden)
- Matthew M. White - Memorial University of Newfoundland (Canada)
2008 GDC Student Scholarship Recipients
- Chase Bowen Martin - Indiana University
- Lisa Deanne Brown - Carnegie Mellon University
- Michael Callahan - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Mike Cornford - Great Northern Way Campus (Canada)
- Tatyana Dyshlova - Brown University
- Elizabeth England - Guildhall at SMU
- Jordan Fine - Macquarie University (Australia)
- Matthew Gaydos - University of Wisconsin, Madison
- Enrique Saúl González Di Totto - The University of Tokyo (Japan)
- Haris Halvatzis - University of Macedonia (Greece)
- Sean Hathaway - FullSail
- Jon Hayward - Edith Cowan University (Australia)
- Yuichi Hiruta - Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (Japan)
- David Larsson - Blekinge Institute of Technology (Sweden)
- James Leonis - FullSail
- Ken Leung - University of Southern California
- Silvia Lindtner - University of California, Irvine
- Sarah McGee - Rice University
- Jeff McNab - Savannah College of Art and Design
- Alice Rendell - University of Wales (UK)
- Philip "Fivel" Rothberg - Hunter College of CUNY
- Andrew Sorkin - Berklee School of Music
- Tynan Sylvester - Concordia University (Canada)
- Ryan Timoney - University of Southern California
- Barret Trickey - Kyoto Computer Gakuin (Japan)
2007 GDC Student Scholarship Recipients
- Jason Raymond Anderson - Michigan Technological University
- Lars Augensen - Hedmark University College (Norway)
- Jeremiah Bond - Devry University Online
- David Carrigg - Clarkson University
- Jonatan Crafoord - Royal College of Music, Stockholm (Sweden)
- Albert Dang - Parsons The New School of Design
- Camille Dodson - University of Colorado at Boulder
- Carla Engelbrecht - Teachers College, Columbia University
- Alexander Gordon - Champlain College
- Michael Hawker - McGill University (Canada)
- William Hayward - DigiPen Institute of Technology
- Whitney Hills - St. Olaf College
- Cheryl Ann Johnson - Art Institute of California - San Francisco
- Christopher Kossa - Bloomfield College
- Michael Lee - Georgia Institute of Technology
- Elizabeth Lehtonen - University of Art and Design Helsinki (Finland)
- David McDonough - Savannah College of Art & Design
- Brandon Mechtley - Arizona State University
- Cliff Mitchell - Sheridan College
- Eve Powell - University of North Carolina at Charlotte
- Christian Schlager - University of Magdeburg (Germany)
- Joshua Seaver - Carnegie Mellon University Entertainment Technology Center
- Scott Jon Siegel - Bard College
- Erik Wesslen - Purdue University
- Kate Yu - Guildhall at SMU
2006 GDC Student Scholarship Recipients
- Gillian Gus Andrews - Teachers College, Columbia University
- Anouk Bachman - San Francisco State University
- Ashley Bennett - Full Sail
- Matthew Raymond Billock - DePaul University
- Eric Webster Brown - Carnegie Mellon University
- Elizabeth M. Chung - Pennsylvania State University
- Julia Detar - Cleveland Institute of Art
- Robert Matthew Florio - The Art Institute Online
- Eric Peter Foster - University of Advancing Technology
- Eric Francksen - Viterbo University
- Leo Galway - University of Ulster (Northern Ireland)
- Matthew Griffin - Columbia University School of the Arts
- Michael James Haka - Michigan Technological University
- Vitaliy Hamuha - Lviv Polytechnic National University (Ukraine)
- Morgan Allen Hill - Academy of Art San Francisco
- Travis Weiren Ho - National University of Singapore (Singapore)
- Juergen Musil - Vienna University of Technology (Austria)
- Mansur Ahamed Nazimuddin - Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (India)
- Danielle Oprean - East Tennessee State University
- Megan Perry - Rensselear Polytechnic Institute
- Michelle Pun - Carnegie Mellon University
- Emily Carol Scrivner - Full Sail
- Gabriel Smedresman - Yale University
- Courtney Soest - Art Institute of CA Orange County
- Duncan Thum -
University of Southern California
2005 GDC Europe Student Scholarship Recipients
- Jeppe Revall Frisvad - Technical University of Denmark (Denmark)
- Silje Ganger - Hedmark University College (Norway)
- Per Hugoson - Linköping University (Sweden)
- Mark Korthals - Columbia University (USA)
- Tom Law - Surrey Institute of Art and Design (England)
- Alger Lee - Uiversity of Manchester (England)
- John-Patrick Molloy - Ballfermot College of Further Education (Ireland)
- Annelise Nielsen - IT University of Copenhagen (Denmark)
- Magali Stretton - Surrey Institute of Art & Design (England)
- Lance Winter - University of Salford (England)
2005 GDC Student Scholarship Recipients
- Aaron Knoll, University of Utah
- Arjuna Ravikumar, Carnegie Mellon University
- Britney K. Brimhall, Arizona State University
- Christopher Scott Joyce, University of Baltimore
- Dan Roy, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Derek Ehrman, Full Sail Real World Education
- Drew Murray, Southern Methodist University
- Erin McKinney, University Advanced Technology
- Erin Reynolds, University of Southern California
- Evan Marc Pollock, University of Denver
- Galip Kartoglu, Yildiz Technical University (Turkey)
- Havard Christensen, Hedmark University College (Norway)
- Jennifer Estaris, Columbia University
- Larz Smith, Guildhall at SMU
- Marvin John Semila, De La Salle University – Manila (Philippines)
- Melanie Lam, Carnegie Mellon University
- Nick Schrag, University of Cincinnati
- Ronald Andaya, Cogswell Polytechnical College
- Sebastian Schmidt, Bauhaus University Weimar (Germany)
- Stephen Erin Dinehart, University of Southern California
- Ting-Wei Liu, Digipen Institute of Technology
- Travis Draper, Queensland University of Technology (Australia)
- Vancito Wallace, Carnegie Mellon University
- Victoria Webb, Carnegie Mellon University
- Wesley Beary, Grinnell College
2004 GDC Student Scholarship Recipients
- Ahmad Saad, Concordia University, Canada
- Asbjoern Malte Soendergaard, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- Benjamin C. Lemer, University of Oregon
- Dirk Henkemans, University of Alberta, Canada
- Douglas McCracken, University of Michigan Business School
- Eben Myers, Carnegie Mellon Entertainment Technology Center
- Eliana Garcia, University of Washington
- Jared Todd McCallister, Ohio State University
- Jean-Christian Delannoy, University of Ottawa, Canada
- Jesse Ray Bernoudy, Digipen Institute of Technology
- Jessica Josephson, New York University
- Jessie Elizabeth Boyer, Full Sail
- Justin Sweeney, Colorado State University
- Katherine Marlin, Millikin University
- Marleigh I. Norton, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Masashi Seiki, University of Tokyo, Japan
- Michael Justin Boccieri, Academy of Art College
- Moneta K. Ho, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Neil Vidyarthi, University of Waterloo, Canada
- Paul Mayze, University of Derby, England
- Reagan C. Heller, Carnegie Mellon Entertainment Technology Center
- Sebastian Nemeth, University of Tech. Sydney, Australia
- Sharon Richardson, Sir John Cass Business School, City University, London, England
- Steve Woyach, University of Southern California
- Ted Brown, Guildhall @ Southern Methodists University
2003 GDC Europe Student Scholarship Recipients
- Robin Hunicke, Northwestern Unitversity, USA
- Ian-Michael Weyna, Art Institute Of Los Angeles, USA
- Jeremy Thornton, University Of Hull, UK
- Marina Miltiadou, Bournemouth University Media School, UK
- Rita Linsley, John Moores University, Liverpool, UK
- Giles Hitchcock, Cambridge University, UK
- Nicolas Fabien, ESC Grenoble, France
- Wang Jianqing, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- Mustafa K. Isik, Munich University of Technology, Germany
- Fernando Jose Herrera Avila, Helsinki University of Technology (HUT), Finland
- Kevin Murphy, Limerick Institute of Technology, Ireland
- Ethan Levy, The University of Southern California, USA
- Espen Almdahl, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
- Paulo Gonçalves de Barros, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
- Jose Eduardo Fernandes Canelas Lopes, University of Exeter, UK
- Oliver Pilarski, University of Stuttgart, Germany
- Ben Bradley, University of Abertay Dundee, Scotland
- Jon Pledger, John Moores University, Liverpool, UK
- Schertenleib Sebastien, EPFL, Switzerland
- Marque Pierre Søndergaard, University of Teesside, UK
- Jamie Cheng, Simon Fraser University, Canada
- Umran Ali, University Of Salford, UK
- Dennis Colburn, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
- Liya Zheng, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
- Sean Chaston O'Hara, Michigan Technological University, USA
2003 GDC Student Scholarship Recipients
- Adam Daniel Mechtley, Art Institute of Phoenix
- Alexia Bowers, Penn State University
- Amin Ebadi, EPFL Switzerland
- Bartek Gudowski, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden
- Brandii Rhiannhon Grace, Western Washington University
- Carol A. Kinzler, Nova Southeastern University
- Chad Alan Bartlet, DigiPen
- Derek Kube, Simon Fraser University, Canada
- Erin Hoffman, Rensselaer Polytechnic
- Jason David Rooks, University of Central Florida
- Jeremy David Acs, University of Cincinnati
- Jim Shepard, Full Sail
- Jovan Cornelio da Costa, UNICENP, Brazil
- Kathy Fung, University of Toronto, Canada
- Kenneth Richard Pocklington, Stanford University
- Lacey Chapman, Baylor University
- Marc Fielding, UCLA
- Marc Noseworthy, University of Manitoba, Canada
- Matthew John Ota, University of Queensland, Australia
- Panayoti Haritatos, University of California San Diego
- Richard Leavitt Suter, University of Massachusetts Lowell
- Ted Hung, Carnegie Mellon University
- Ted Lightman, Cornell University
- Tyler Lynn Seymour, Juniata College Pennsylvania
- Zachary Murphy, Art Center College of Design Pasadena
2002 GDC Europe Student Scholarship Recipients
- Heather Andrew, John Moores University Liverpool
- Alexander Benz, FH Darmstadt
- Patrik Bergman, Malmö University
- Peter Brophy, Thames Valley University
- Stephen Chamberlain, University of Teesside
- Fotis Chatzinikos, University of Hull
- Pelle Christensen, Aalborg University
- Simon Dew, Bournemouth University
- Thomas Di Giacomo, University of Geneva
- Aubrey Hesselgren, University of Manchester
- Alexander Hornung, Aachen University
- Søren Jensen, Syddansk Universitet
- Karl Johnsen, IT-University of Copenhagen
- Per Karefelt, Royal Institute of Technology
- Teemu Mikael Kivikangas, Helsinki School of Economics
- Ramon C. Kool, University of Utrecht
- Martin Neumann, Freie Universität Berlin
- Scott Nowson, University of Edinburgh
- Kirill Pankratiev, Universite Louis Pasteur
- Richard Perrin, Sheffield Hallam University
- Stig Vilholm Petersen, University of Abertay Dundee
- Tom Salter, University of Teesside
- Daire Stockdale, University of Abertay
- Jerome Thoma, RWTH Aachen
- Liliana Vega Zazueta, Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers
2002 GDC Student Scholarship Recipients
- Eric Anderson, DigiPen Institute of Technology
- Michael Bowling, Carnegie Mellon University
- Scylla Costa Neto, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
- Mark DeGeorge, University of California at Los Angeles
- Anthony DiCola, The Ohio State University
- Klaus Drobec, Technical University of Vienna
- Chaim Gingold, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Yotam Gingold, Brown University
- Veronica Gonzales, Indiana University - Bloomington
- Darren Joe, Simon Fraser University
- Niclas Kjellin, University of Abertay Dundee, Scotland
- Nick Klawitter, Humber Collage
- Sherman Chin Lit Kong, University of Portsmouth
- Timothy Nixon, University of Otego
- Bethany Nowviskie, University of Virginia
- Ramon Nunez, New York City Technical College
- Erik Peterson, Western Washington University
- Stig Peterson, University of Abertay Dundee, Scotland
- Cynthia Poremba, Technical University of British Columbia
- Ian Roth, University of Missouri Columbia
- Todd Smith, University of Utah
- Virginia Suchodolski, University of Southern California
- Muon Van, Northwestern University
- Christopher Van Horn, Northern Kentucky University
- Andrew Zaferakis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2001 GDC Student Scholarship Recipients
- Francois Antoine, Savannah College of Art & Design
- Kevin Bray, Penn State University
- Howard Brown, Hampton University
- Arnaldo Carvalho, University of Illinois, Springfield
- Douglas Croeni, Oregon State University
- Gary Dahl, University of Minnesota
- Victor Didra, Pepperdine University
- Todd Michael Fay, University of Massachusetts Lowell
- Markus Friedl, Fachhochschule Vorarlberg, Austria
- Maxim Garber, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- Jelyn Gaskell, CSU, Hayward and CSU, Stanislaus
- Alexander Jhin,Yale University
- Patrick Lee, University of Southern California
- JoAnna Lio, University of Kentucky
- David D. Massey, University of New Mexico
- Shaun Matthew McCabe, Full Sail
- Scott Morse, Case Western Reserve University
- Daniele Nanni, Art Institute of Phoenix
- Salako Rafiu Oladele, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Nigeria
- Sooyun Park, Pratt Institute
- Matthew Earl Rapelje, Washington State University
- Vincent Scheib, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- Jeferson Luiz Freitas Valadares, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
- Stephen Wong, University of California, Los Angeles
- Robert Zubek, Northwestern University