Sonia Alcantar of Gainesville is one of three recent graduates of the University of North Georgia awarded internships with the U.S. Department of Energy to study at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, N.M., and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Wash. Alcantar is working as an intern at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Alcantar, one of four children, is the first member of her family to graduate from a university.