Cynthia De La Torre, ’03 BA Communication Studies, is the communications manager for a $20 million grant from the National Institutes of Health that is housed at UNLV. The grant involves 13 institutions in seven states. She handles all social media and communications for the grant, including campaigns for its various funding mechanisms. Each year she organizes a meeting for 200 scientists and faculty members across the Mountain West. An advocate for immigration, prison reform, and higher education, she facilitates a support group for women coping with incarcerated family members. Her hobbies include hiking, cycling, reading, and networking. She has an 11-year-old daughter.

Bryce Clutts, ’03 BS Business Administration, is president of DC Building Group where he oversees strategy implementation, customer relations, and business operations. The company has received multiple awards, including the 2013 Safest Contractor of the Year Award, the 2010 Contractor of the Year Award from the Associated General Contractors (AGC), and the 2015 JA Tiberti Spirit Award from AGC and the Nevada Contractors Association. He is president of the Nevada Contractors Association, immediate past president of the Associated General Contractors of Las Vegas, and a recipient of the Juliette Low Pearl Lifetime Achievement Award from the Girl Scouts of Southern Nevada. He was appointed to the Nevada State Public Works Board and to the city of Henderson’s Development Services Oversight Committee. He and his wife, Tonya, have four children, Aubrianna, Austin, Andrew, and Addison. His hobbies include hunting, fishing, and riding horses.

Jon Castagnino, ’03 BA Communication Studies and BS Sports Injury Management, is an instructor in UNLV’s Hank Greenspun School of Journalism and Media Studies. He launched the “Rebel Report,” a student-run TV and social media platform covering UNLV athletics and Las Vegas events. He began his career as a student journalist for the show UNLViews, broadcast from the basement of the Flora Dungan Humanities building, and went on to write and produce for TV news in Wyoming and Texas. Most recently, he worked as a sports anchor/reporter at FOX5 News in Las Vegas.

Joseph Baker, ’03 BS Physics, is in his second year as an assistant professor of theoretical and computational chemistry at the College of New Jersey, a four-year undergraduate institution in Ewing. He received his doctoral degree in physics from the University of Arizona and held a postdoctoral position at the University of Chicago in the department of chemistry and the Center for Multiscale Theory and Simulation. His hobbies are playing the violin, reading science fiction, and walking and hiking with his dog.

Magdalena Zepeda, ’02 MA Communication Studies, this year was promoted to assistant principal at Central Middle School in Riverside, California. Her hobbies are long-distance running, mentoring, reading, and writing. She lives in Coachella.

Michele Lucero Villagran, ’01 BS Business Administration, is a lecturer in the library & information sciences department at the University of North Texas.

Rosemary  Lato, ’01 BS Business Administration, is a certified public accountant. She recently celebrated the 10-year anniversary of Petrova & Pearson, CPAs. She lives in North Las Vegas.

Jason Aaron Goldberg, ’00 BFA, is the producer of the independent feature film The Three Es, which follows the Dunn family struggles as members regain their balance and composure after the middle and only male child has been severely injured in Iraq. The film won the Audience Choice Feature Film Award at the 2015 Laughlin International Film Festival, Best Feature Film Award at the Manhattan Film Festival, and a number of awards at the 2016 Idyllwild and Cinema on the Bayou film festivals. Goldberg also wrote and directed the film, which was coproduced with Joseph Campanale, ’01 BFA. The film features Jon Paul Raniola, ’00, and Vanessa Elgrichi, ’11.

Huichia “Jessica” Jen, ’99 BS Hotel Administration, ’03 MBA, is general manager of the Westgate Flamingo Bay Resort. She joined Westgate Resorts in 2007 as the regional controller to assist the company in building its first project on the Las Vegas Strip, PH Towers by Westgate. After that project was acquired by another company in 2012, she transitioned her role to resort operations in addition to her financial role.

Janet Hollinger, ’98 BS Biological Sciences, has worked for UNLV as a transition advisor at the Charleston campus of CSN since 2012. Before that she was an academic advisor in UNLV’s College of Sciences. She has been married for more than 28 years and is the mother of two daughters, Melinda Hollinger, a UNLV senior majoring in multidisciplinary studies, and Heather. Her hobbies include animal rescue, reading, women’s soccer, and NASCAR.

Paul Villaluz, ’97 BS Civil Engineering, ’06 MS Civil Engineering, is a project engineer II with Manatee County (Florida) department of public works. He received the Coordinating Council Best Project Award at the 2015 annual meeting of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE). The award recognizes the best technical product resulting from work developed, completed, and sponsored by a council in the previous calendar year. As chair of the Traffic Engineering Council Committee, he served as lead author for the ITE informational report titled Sight Triangle and Corner Clearance Policies at Intersections and Driveways. He lives in Bradenton.

Gabrielle Pullen, ’97 BA French, recently completed her master’s degree in writing at the Pan-European MFA program at Cedar Crest College. She will obtain her certificate in teaching this spring. Having taught movement as a Feldenkrais practitioner, she has a special interest — and training — in how learning functions. She recently completed her creative thesis in the form of an historical novel titled The Witches of East Lothian. She lives in Bothell, Washington, having recently relocated from Northern California with her horse.