Education & Talent

Adapting first aid, CPR training to be used on infants

Providence instructor finds strong demand for classes

July 30, 2015

Providence Health Care class instructor Clair Bennett says an infant/child first aid and CPR class she proposed and then launched about a year and a half ago with the Spokane-based health care system's blessing is attracting the strong interest that she

International Service Learning centralizes in downtown Spokane

ISL employs 200 people throughout organization

July 30, 2015

LeAnn Bjerken

International Service Learning, a nongovernmental organization that offers volunteers practical experience in medical, education, and community enrichment programs, has centralized its headquarters in downtown Spokane in a transition from years of remote

Startup involving Whitworth professor launches new app

TextMuse has preloaded content for messaging

July 16, 2015

Treva Lind

Whitworth University professor Pete Tucker, who co-founded a software development startup a year ago, says its new text messaging app called TextMuse provides smartphone users with automatic content updated daily to share as quick communication with conta

Gonzaga graduates find good fit with menswear startup

Vincero Collective chooses products via crowdfunding

July 16, 2015

Kim Crompton

Three Gonzaga University alumni who earned business degrees at the Jesuit school here five years ago, and then spent four years in China, have gotten off to a promising start with an online premium menswear company called Vincero Collective that they co-f

WSU researchers hope to track preemie pain

New grant enables work after old award expired

July 2, 2015

Samantha Peone

Washington State University researchers are developing a device that can detect pain in premature infants and might be used in the future to help prevent disabilities, says assistant professor Martin Schiavenato, WSU College of Nursing.

EWU institute launches Tri-Cities data tracker

Information could benefit businesses in Spokane

June 18, 2015

Eastern Washington University's Institute for Public Policy and Economic Analysis says it has developed a Web-based data bank for businesses, community leaders, and residents of Benton and Franklin counties, the university says. But Patrick Jones, the

SCC looks to keep aerospace momentum rolling

State to kick in money when federal grant ends

June 18, 2015

Though federal funding from an Air Washington worker retraining grant will end in the fall, Dave Cox, dean of Spokane Community College's technical education division, says he's confident the department will continue to grow.

First of five bond-funded Post Falls school projects rises

Architects West designed middle school expansion

June 4, 2015

Mike McLean

Construction is under way on a $3.1 million expansion project at River City Middle School, in Post Falls, says Scott Fischer, the project architect with the Coeur d'Alene design firm Architects West Inc.

Elmer erects addition in Valley for FedEx

Distribution site expansion will be completed this fall

June 4, 2015

Mike McLean

A major expansion project is under way at the FedEx Ground distribution center in Spokane Valley.

Central Valley school district starts grocery building remodel

$8.6 million project slated to be finished in early '16

June 4, 2015

Judith Spitzer

Central Valley School District started work in late April on a project to convert a former Yoke's Fresh Market building into new quarters for Barker High School and the Central Valley Early Learning Center.