Welcome to the Resource Guide for The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Dr. Gindlesparger, Director of Writing Across the Curriculum at Philadelphia University announces:
The First Year Experience Program and the Writing Program at Philadelphia University are pleased to announce that The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, written by Rebecca Skloot, has been chosen as the text for the 2011 Summer Reading Program. Skloot's nonfiction work, published in 2010, highlights the contributions to science made by cancer patient Henrietta Lacks, a working-class African-American woman whose cancer cells were unknowingly harvested for research. Lacks’ cells, known to scientists as HeLa cells, form the basis for modern research in the biological sciences.
FAQs about the book, from the author's website.
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Campus-wide Events Related to the Book
Summer Reading Discussion Groups
Friday, August 19
11:30am, Hayward Hall
Finding Purpose in Tragedy
Jay Scott, Executive Director of Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation
Thursday, September 8
1pm, Kanbar Campus Center Performance Space
Colleges Against Cancer Campus Event
Tuesday, September 13
12:30pm, Kanbar Campus Center Performance Space
Bio Ethics and Henrietta Lacks
Presentation by Dr. Arthur L. Caplan, Director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania
Thursday, September 15
1pm, Kanbar Campus Center Performance Space
Film for Thought: Sicko
Tuesday, September 20
12:30pm, Tuttleman Auditorium
HeLa Mock Trial
Presented by the Law and Society Program
Wednesday, September 21
7pm, Tuttleman Auditorium
Excellence in First Year Writing Dinner
Sponsored by the First Year Experience and Writing Programs
Monday, November 7
6 pm, Kanbar Campus Center Performance Space
ABC News, Jan 31 2010: Henrietta Lacks Was Never Compensated for Cells
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