The Sandia internships are under the guidance of Nathan Fabian along with Jon Whetzel. Fabian is a Senior Member of the Sandia technical staff an adjunct professor at UNM co-teaching game development. 

As part of the Sandia internship, Alexandra Valdez worked as the lead artist on SIGNAL, a new online experimental wargame developed in collaboration with the University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory through the Project on Nuclear Gaming. She designed and created the visual assets used in the game and also helped make minor changes to the code base.

Recent graduates Alex Booher and Alexandra Valdez came from different academic areas in the Film & Digital Arts department at The University of New Mexico, but both ended up in internships with Sandia National Laboratories where their skills in game development went far beyond gaming for entertainment.  

The American West stretches from the sandy shores of the Pacific to the peaks of the Rockies, its diverse landscapes of deserts, foothills, beaches, mesas, grasslands, and mountains boasting of sunshine in the summer and snowpack in the winter. Water is...

Ryan Webb in the Water Resources and Hydraulics Lab in UNM's Centennial Engineering Center with a Federal Snow Sampler used in the field to measure snowpack and meltwater.

Ryan Webb near the Niwot Ridge Long-Term Ecological Research station near Boulder, Colo.

Recent graduates Alex Booher and Alexandra Valdez came from different academic areas to the Film & Digital Arts department at The University of New Mexico, but both ended up in internships with Sandia National Laboratories where their skills in game...