Sponsored by the Biology Department and the Ethics Institute at Dartmouth College. To be held in Haledman 041.

The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, the HeLa cell line is still alive today, though Henrietta Lacks has been dead for more than sixty years and her family did not learn of the experiments using her cells until more than twenty years after her death. Science journalist Rebecca Skloot brilliantly weaves together the story of Henrietta Lacks, her children and grandchildren, the multi-million dollar bioengineering industry, the birth of bioethics, and the dark history of experimentation on African Americans.

(Free and open to the public, reservations not required. The Norwich Bookstore will be providing books for sale at the event; author signing to follow lecture.)