Lincoln Land Community College Library
Rebecca Skloot, the author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, is coming to the University of Illinois Springfield Sangamon Auditorium this fall. ABOUT THE BOOK: In her bestselling book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2010), Skloot tells the story of a young black woman who died of cervical cancer in 1951and left behind an inexplicably immortal line of cells known as HeLa. Skloot spent more than ten years researching Henrietta Lacks, whose cellsharvested without her knowledge or consentcontributed to scientific advancements as varied as the polio vaccine, treatments for cancers and viruses, in-vitro fertilization, and the impact of space travel on human cells.<iframe width="425" height="349" src="/Portals/23/http://www.youtube.com/embed/nQPOCaFcDDY?hl=en&fs=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Rebecca Skloot, the author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, is coming to the University of Illinois Springfield Sangamon Auditorium this fall. ABOUT THE BOOK: In her bestselling book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2010), Skloot tells the story of a young black woman who died of cervical cancer in 1951and left behind an inexplicably immortal line of cells known as HeLa. Skloot spent more than ten years researching Henrietta Lacks, whose cellsharvested without her knowledge or consentcontributed to scientific advancements as varied as the polio vaccine, treatments for cancers and viruses, in-vitro fertilization, and the impact of space travel on human cells.<iframe width="425" height="349" src="/Portals/23/http://www.youtube.com/embed/nQPOCaFcDDY?hl=en&fs=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Alternative Sources for Textbooks
The library would like to remind students that it provides materials to support student research and enrichment, but it is neither the library's mission nor its policy to supply course textbooks.
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