Business Beat: a collection of achievement and acknowledgement

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Architecture

Emily Greif has joined MMEC Architecture & Interiors as an interior designer. Greif has six years of lighting experience and graduated from Washington State University.

Land Expressions has promoted Nicholas Hamad to design director. Hamad is a licensed professional landscape architect in Washington state. He has been with the company for eight years.

Education

CleanTech Alliance Washington has named Washington State University as a recipient of the CleanTech Achievement Award in recognition of the university’s work in clean technology research and outreach into communities.

Engineering

DCI Engineers has promoted Scott Rivas to associate. Rivas joined the firm in 2004 and previously served as a senior project manager. He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Health care

Paul McVay has been named the executive director of Life Care Center of Coeur d’Alene. McVay was previously the executive director for Extendicare and has 12 years of experience in long-term care.

Nonprofit

Skils’kin has hired David Watts as an assistant in the human resources department. Watts graduated from Eastern Washington University and was previously an intern in the human resources department.

The Friends of the Centennial Trail have made a $20,000 donation from the Trail Builder’s Fund to the Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission for the Centennial Trail extension in Nine Mile Falls.

The Greater Spokane Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America has announced the winners of the 2015 Communication Leadership Awards as follows: Degerness Award for Excellence in Public Relations, Michelle Hege; Executive Communicator of the Year, Katherine Morgan; Communications Professional of the Year, Pam Pyrc; Rising PR Star of the Year, Hayley Graham.

Retail

Etailz has hired Samantha Allie as a warehouse administrative assistant and Richard McLeod as a buyer.

Technology

Nuvodia has named April McKenna as the director of clinical applications. Previously, McKenna was the client services manager at Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. She has extensive experience in information technology and operations management.