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Vanessa Northington Gamble at the Capstone Event: “Henrietta Lacks Beyond Her Cells: Race, Racism, and American Medicine”
Posted on April 4, 2011Last week the Go Big Read blog featured Ruth Faden, keynote speaker on April 15th for the Capstone Event. This week, we’re […]
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Ruth Faden at the Capstone Event: “Henrietta Lacks: Ethics at the Intersection of Health Care and Biomedical Science”
Posted on March 31, 2011A number of panelists and speakers will be present at the Go Big Read Capstone Event on April 15-16 at the Wisconsin […]
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Go Big Read Capstone Event: April 15-16
Posted on March 30, 2011The Go Big Read Capstone event, “Who Owns My Body and Where is it Now?” will be held April 15-16 at the […]
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Colloquium: Bruno Strasser on “Collecting Experiments: The New Production of Biomedical Knowledge”
Posted on March 28, 2011As we near the Go Big Read capstone event, the UW community is still discussing topics relevent to The Immortal Life of […]
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Henry Louis Gates on “African American Lives”
Posted on March 25, 2011A full house turned out for Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr’s talk last night in Mills Concert Hall. Gates, Alphonse Fletcher University […]
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An Evening with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Posted on March 21, 2011Go Big Read looks forward to welcoming Henry Louis Gates, Jr to Mills Hall, Mosse Humanities Building, on March 24th at 7:30 […]
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Last Two Weeks of Informing Consent Exhibit
Posted on March 21, 2011As you plan your next two weeks on the west side of campus, please keep in mind that the popular “Informing Consent: […]
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Literary Science Writing
Posted on March 14, 2011One of the most gripping aspects of “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” is how well Skloot, a science writer, covers both […]
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Video of HeLa Cells Multiplying
Posted on March 4, 2011“They kept growing like nothing anyone had seen, doubling their numbers every twenty-four hours, stacking hundreds on top of hundreds, accumulating by […]
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Henrietta Lacks Study Tools
Posted on March 4, 2011Whether you’re a teacher, a discussion leader, or an interested reader, it’s helpful to have some study tools when reading a multidisciplinary […]