Congratulations to PoNG’s founder Leanne Chukoskie on her tenure track Associate Professor position at Northeastern University! She is now faculty in the Department of Physical Therapy, Movement, and Rehabilitation Science in the Bouvé College of Health, and the Games Program in the College of Arts, Media, and Design at Northeastern University. She plans to extend her work with sensor-enabled experiences and neurodiverse young adults in the newly formed ReGame XR lab. She passes on lead directorship of PoNG to Joe Snider.
Graduate students Trent Simmons and Sundararaman Rengarajan have transferred to Northeastern to continue their graduate work with Leanne. Ara Jung also joined Leanne in Boston to manage the ReGame XR lab.
Trish Stone has stepped away from PoNG to focus on curating the QI Gallery.
Jack Chen took a new position with Creative Coding Careers, working with our colleague and collaborator Mike Roberts, as a Software Engineer.
Khalil Jackson has transferred to Jules Jaffe’s lab at the Scripps Institution for Oceanography where he will help design visualization for underwater audio.
Student artist Corly Huang has graduated and moved on to bigger and better things. Her spot is filled by the very talented Cindy Lin; a computer science major with some serious artistic chops.