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Penny Arcade Announces 2010 Scholarship Winner

August 25, 2010 at 11:00 am
Summer Suzuki
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The Penny Arcade Expo (PAX) is next week, and the Penny Arcade team just announced the winner of their 2010 scholarship in a press release:

Penny Arcade has awarded University of Washington PhD student Jeffrey Lin the 2010 Penny Arcade Scholarship. Jeffrey plans to use the award to further his research into applying vision science to solve practical problems in game design.

The PA scholarship is available to college students interested in pursuing careers that contribute to the advancement of the game industry. The annual winner is selected based on service, leadership, character, financial need and the potential to make a positive impact.

This year’s winner impressed the selection committee with his interest in crossing traditional boundaries between game development and other academic disciplines. Lin plans to study how vision scientists can bring methods and insights developed in their field and apply them as members of game development teams.

“Vision scientists have the tools and skills to help developers tackle problems from how to reduce motion sickness some experience in FPS titles to how to make games more accessible to the color blind,” said Lin. “My goal is to eventually prove to game developers that vision scientists would be a valuable member of any developer’s team.”

Penny Arcade’s scholarship program was established in 2006 to help encourage the development of tomorrow’s bright new stars.

“Lin represents an intriguing future where an interdisciplinary approach to game design embraces professionals from vision scientists to economists, from city planners to linguists and everything in-between,” said Robert Khoo of Penny Arcade. “As each successful generation of game development becomes more advanced, the ability to draw from diverse fields will become more important.”

Application information for the 2011 scholarship will be available in spring 2011 at http://www.penny-arcade.com/pas/.

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Summer has been a comic book junkie since the age of 13 when she stole her 7-year old brother's first three issues of the Claremont/Lee run of the X-Men. On his birthday. Right after he unwrapped them. It's been all downhill from then on.

Besides being way too into comics, Summer enjoys nerding out over various movies and television shows (Supernatural, Lost, and Doctor Who to mention a few), listening to music, and adding to her massive book collection.

Currently, she's looking for a college or university where she can finish her double major in Art History and Art Therapy and getting her work into various art galleries, all while trying to survive working in a cubicle jungle.
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