David Schwartz
Director of the School of Interactive Games and Media
David Schwartz
Director of the School of Interactive Games and Media
Education
BS, MS, Ph.D., University at Buffalo
Bio
David I. Schwartz, Ph.D. (he/him/his) has been working in the academic field of game design and development since 2001 when he founded the Game Design Initiative at Cornell University. In 2007, Schwartz moved to the Rochester Institute of Technology. He was part of the founding department in 2009, which became the School of Interactive Games and Media in 2011. After receiving tenure in 2011, he became IGM's Director in 2015. His current research focus is on cybersecurity games, geogames, and physically-based animation.
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In the News
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March 22, 2022
RIT game design programs ranked among best in the world
RIT is one of the best places in the world to study game design and develop a career, according to new rankings from The Princeton Review.
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March 18, 2022
RIT’s game design programs ranked No. 5 nationally
Animation Career Review has again named RIT one of the top game design universities in the country. RIT ranked No. 5 on the list of Top 50 Game Design Schools and Colleges in the U.S. and No. 2 in New York state.
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March 24, 2021
Job preparedness key to RIT’s game design and development receiving Princeton recognition
WROC-TV talks to David Schwartz, director of Interactive Games and Media, and Coehl Gleckner, fifth-year interactive games and media student, about RIT’s game design and development programs.
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February 15, 2022
Schwartz, Tomaszewski receive grant to prototype resilience game for critical infrastructure leaders
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November 15, 2021
Schwartz co-edits ‘Gaming and Geospatial Information’
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June 2, 2021
Schwartz named associate editor of journal