SMU Guildhall

Achievement Unlocked ✅ Cohort 34, you are officially Game Dev graduates and the newest members of the network of 1150+ SMU Guildhall alumni working at hundreds of studios across the globe 🎓🎉🎮💪 Onward and upward!

We are thrilled to present our 2026 Career Day beginning this evening with Opening Sessions including a special industry panel with Steve Nix (CEO ), Joanie Kraut (CEO ), Chris Schmidt (Game Director ), and Mark Tardif (General Manager at Unannounced Studio).

This year’s event includes a host of awesome industry guest speakers and volunteers providing a wealth of insights and 1:1 professional development guidance for students, networking opportunities for developers and alumni, game showcases and a special peek into a live Team Game Development class, and more.

Welcome, all! We are honored and thrilled to have you here.

Ethics-Focused AI Literacy Course Beats National Completion Rates

Aleshia Hayes, clinical associate professor at SMU Guildhall, is helping shape how universities teach AI to broad campus audiences, emphasizing how to use it responsibly. A newly published Springer volume on STEM education makes the case that teaching ethics alongside AI fundamentals drives real learner engagement.

Ethics-focused AI literacy course beats national completion rates SMU Guildhall professor Aleshia Hayes designed a free AI literacy course that reached 2,000+ learners with a 75% completion rate.

SMU Guildhall graduate students: we appreciate you! It’s Graduate and Professional Student Appreciation Week, and we want to give special recognition to your hard work. We are proud of all that you have accomplished in your individual studies, research, and Team Game production. You are surely destined to do great things ahead.

Want to check out our students’ work first-hand?
Join us for the SMU Guildhall 2026 Thesis Exhibition on May 8, where each graduating Master’s student’s thesis will be showcased. Learn more and register: https://www.smu.edu/guildhall/news-and-events/annual-events/thesis-exhibition