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UNM meets Sandia National Laboratories

UNM meets Sandia National Laboratories

Jonathan Whetzel, Principal Member of the Sandia technical staff and adjunct professor at UNM, co-teaches game development in the UNM Film & Digital Arts department and guides students during internships at Sandia.

UNM intern at Sandia National Laboratories

UNM intern at Sandia National Laboratories

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.

UNM intern works on experimental wargame

UNM intern works on experimental wargame

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.

UNM interns at Sandia National Laboratories

UNM interns at Sandia National Laboratories

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.

UNM Sandia internships prepare grads for careers in non-entertainment game development

Commercial gaming development skills used for research and training purposes

By Mary Beth King June 01, 2019

Categories: Front Page College of Fine Arts Media Arts Interdisciplinary Film & Digital Media Program

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