Zynga is funding scholarships at North Carolina State AT&T University.
Zynga is funding scholarships at North Carolina AT&T State University.
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Zynga will provide $1.4M in scholarships for North Carolina A&T State as part of social impact fund

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Social mobile game publisher Zynga announced it has partnered with North Carolina A&T State University, the largest Historically Black College or University (HBCU), to help expand gaming development through Zynga’s Social Impact Fund.

As part of the partnership, Zynga will grant the university’s college of engineering a total of $1.4 million over a four-year period to create the Zynga Scholars program. Zynga scholars will receive support to strengthen their gaming development competencies throughout their undergraduate education.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.