Gov. Gary Locke announces his proposal to create Washington’s Promise Scholarships in a news conference Tuesday at the HUB. He was joined by UW President Richard L. McCormick.

Don Baldwin

This sketch depicts a gorgon, one of history’s most ferocious predators, attacking a dicynodon, a tortoise-beaked herbivore. Neither creature survived the world’s most severe mass extinction 250 million years ago at the end of the Permian period, the last phase of the Paleozoic era. (Credit: Cedric Hunter, the South African Museum)

Peter Esselman, Kathleen Bell (seated) and Sureyya Dikmen meet to confer on the model system for treating traumatic brain injury. Photo by Jordan Rehm.

Holiday card-making—About 50 UW Medical Center employees gathered Dec. 3 for a workshop on hand-made holiday cards. Dianne Erickson, the medical center’s artist in residence, set up materials and offered advice. The workshop was a change from her usual duties, which involve art projects with patients. The card-making workshop was part of the medical center’s First Thursday series of lunchtime programs for employees. Photo by Craig Degginger.

The newly named Aagaard Tower, tallest building in the Health Sciences Center, is at the center of this photo taken from the Burke-Gilman Trail. Photo by Gavin Sisk.

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