George J. Molnar,  '12 MS Crisis and Emergency Management, is senior director of technology for radio station WTOP. He lives in College Park, Maryland. 

Kurt Hildebrand, '88 BA Communication Studies, in October received the Nevada Association of School Boards award for print reporting. He is the editor of the Gardnerville Record-Courier. The last working journalist covering Douglas County, he reported on his first Douglas County School Board meeting in September 1989. In 1994, Hildebrand was named Nevada Outstanding Journalist and has been editor of the Record-Courier since May 2004. While at UNLV he served as editor of the student newspaper. A U.S. Navy veteran, he makes his home in Genoa with artist Jennifer Hollister.    

Jim O'Brien, '93 MPA Public Administration, '05 PhD  Environmental Science, is retired from his job as emergency management director for Clark County.

Diane Shearer Dierks, '95 BA Communication Studies, is the author of a new novel, Back to Life. In the book, protagonist Kate Mulligan is given a chance to relive her life. After a fatal accident, she is told she can have a do-over and begin again as a child, only this time with the wisdom she learned the first time around. Intrigued and convinced she can remedy a lifetime of mistakes, Kate opts to go back to 1976, the year her 9-year-old brother drowned. Dierks, who also is the author of another novel and two non-fiction books, donated some of the royalties from this latest book to Atlanta-area food banks. She lives in Dacula, Georgia.    

Tamia Dow, '87 BA Criminal Justice, is a filmmaker who creates socially conscious films addressing community issues such as veterans, homelessness, mental illness, domestic violence, sex trafficking, and child cyber stalking. Her award-winning sex trafficking awareness drama  “Why Should I Care ? “ has been screened at film festivals and for private groups. She also is a writer, director, and producer as well as a best-selling author and a professional development trainer. While at UNLV she served in the Army ROTC and the Nevada National Guard. After graduation she served as a military police officer in the Army. Now, she is a director on the board of the UNLV Alumni Veterans Club. From 1989 until her retirement in 2012, she was an officer in the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. Her last assignment was as a domestic violence detective.  

Jamie Ibanez, '18 BA Criminal Justice, has been promoted to assistant security supervisor of the D and Golden Gate casinos.