Microsoft joins USC Games Gerald A Lawson Endowment Fund
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Microsoft joins USC Games Gerald A Lawson Endowment Fund
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USC Games launches fund to support Black and Indigenous game design students
USC Games has established a new fund with help from
Borderlands publisher Take-Two Interactive that will support Black and Indigenous students in game design and engineering.
The Gerald A. Lawson Endowment Fund has been created with the goal of increasing the representation of those groups in the video game and tech industries, and will provide student support for Black and Indigenous students who wish to pursue undergraduate or graduate degrees in game design or computer science through the USC Games program.
Take-Two made a significant seed contribution to help establish the Lawson Fund. The initiative is named after pioneering electronic engineer Gerald Lawson, who led the team that invented the interchangeable ROM cartridges used in the Fairchild Channel F console. Lawson was one of the few Black engineers working in the games industry during its inception.