UNLV alumni and longtime friends Jacob Lanning, ’00 BA Communications, ’05 MBA Finance, and his wife Lauren Lanning, ’09 MBA Marketing, and Michael Schlazer, ‘15 MBA, and Christina Schlazer, ’12 MS Health Physics, ’16 MBA Marketing, opened The NOW Massage Henderson in February 2021 in Henderson. The Lannings and the Schlazers were drawn to the idea that self care is a necessity and not a luxury, as well as the holistic business approach of The NOW.  The group plans to open more locations in the Las Vegas Valley.

Kurt Hildebrand, '88 BA Communication Studies, editor of The Record-Courier in Gardnerville, was invited to participate in a critical thinking piece for Editor & Publisher magazine on the topic "Should Newsrooms Unpublish or Modify Old Crime Stories?"    

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.