Copies of Rebecca Skloot’s "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" are now available to students—free of charge—in the Multicultural Education and Resource Center (MERC)
and the library. (Supplies are limited.)

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks has been chosen by the President’s Committee on Diversity as the first book in our new Diversity Common Reader Program. It tells the story of a woman whose cells have been used for some of the most important medical research of the last sixty years. Raising issues of race, class, and gender—as well as medical ethics and research methods—it is a fascinating read that will appeal to students in multiple disciplines.

Book discussions and tours of Northern’s tissue labs will be held in April in addition to a keynote event on April 15 at 7 p.m. in Jamrich 102 at which David Lacks, son of Henrietta Lacks, and Dr. Ruth Faden, Executive Director of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, will speak and answer questions. Watch for more information as these events draw nearer.

Pick up your copy today!