What is the USF "One Book -- Global Connections" Common Reading Experience?
The Common Reading Experience is designed to provide USF students with a common intellectual experience to generate discussion, promote critical thinking, and instill a sense of community among students, faculty/staff and alumni. The USF One Book – Global Connections Common Reading Experience will:
The Common Reading Experience is designed to provide USF students with a common intellectual experience to generate discussion, promote critical thinking, and instill a sense of community among students, faculty/staff and alumni. The USF One Book – Global Connections Common Reading Experience will:
- Unite the campus community in a shared intellectual experience that generates discussions around diverse ideas, experiences, and points of view
- Promote dialogue and connections among students, faculty, staff, and alumni
- Expose students to issues relevant in today's global society
- Bridge learning experiences inside and outside the classroom
2013 Selection: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Skloot’s debut book, took more than a decade to write but quickly became a New York Times best-seller. The nonfiction book recounts the story of Henrietta Lacks, a poor southern African American tobacco farmer, whose cells – taken without her knowledge – were the first human cells grown in a lab and kept alive outside the body. They are credited with being at the source of many significant medical and scientific breakthroughs, as well as the formation of a multi-million dollar industry. Lack’s cells, now known as the HeLa cells, have been replicated by the billions, yet neither she nor her family benefited financially.
To find out how the Lacks family is doing today, visit www.helafamilystories.com
For current events surrounding the HeLa cells, please visit the following resources:
- http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/nih-reaches-pact-with-family-of-woman-on-access-to-dna-data-from-her-cells/64405?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
- http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/08/science/after-decades-of-research-henrietta-lacks-family-is-asked-for-consent.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0
- http://www.nbcnews.com/health/nih-finally-makes-good-henrietta-lacks-family-its-about-time-6C10867941
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