The University of Utah’s The Division of Games (Utah Games) program is proud to celebrate the success of Back Off Me Booty, a student-developed game that captured the hearts of players at IndieCade 2024, earning the coveted Audience Choice Award. This prestigious honor highlights the talent, creativity, and dedication of the University’s budding game developers. […]
Read MoreBob Kessler, Ph.D., EAE’s co-founder and founding director, will be posthumously inducted as a HEVGA Fellow during a ceremony to be held at the Game Developers’ Conference in San Francisco, CA, the week of March 20th, 2023. Kessler was a towering figure in the history of EAE, serving to co-found the program in 2008 […]
Read MoreThe Entertainment Arts and Engineering Program is proud to announce that Professor Ashley Guajardo has been awarded the Early Career Teaching Award for their exceptional contributions to the university’s educational community. This prestigious award recognizes the outstanding efforts of early career faculty members in promoting a positive and dynamic learning experience for their students. Dr. […]
Read MoreRogelio Cardona-Rivera, a jointly appointed assistant professor in the Entertainment Arts and Engineering Program and in the School of Computing at the University of Utah, has been selected to receive a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award, NSF’s highest honor for early-career scientists and engineers. The five-year, $544,379 CAREER award, which recognizes faculty who possess the […]
Read MoreOn July 16, 2020, the Higher Education Video Game Alliance (HEVGA) inducted Entertainment Arts and Engineering professor José Zagal into the ranks of the prestigious HEVGA Fellows. Zagal joins a list of distinguished fellows that includes EAE Associate Professor Roger Altizer and EAE Director Michael Young. Established in 2017, HEVGA’s Fellows Program recognizes senior scholars […]
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