Lacks' legacy is living on, not only through her cells, but through places like Henrietta Lacks Health and Bioscience High School, where students have chosen to go into the medical field.

But Henrietta Lacks Health and Bioscience High School, isn’t only comfortable with its name, it’s proud of it, said Julie Tumelty, the school’s principal since it opened in 2013.

Standing in front of Henrietta Lacks Health and Bioscience High School on Monday morning, Dr. Gary Gilliland couldn’t help but notice how Lacks’ story had come full circle.

A Dunbar High School student is this year's recipient of the Henrietta Lacks Scholarship, Serigne Ndiaye, who is from Senegal, is an eleventh grader at Dunbar, the scholarship is valued at $40,000.

The following is a press release from the Evergreen School District: Vancouver, WA. - In a unanimous decision by the Evergreen Public Schools' Board of Directors, Henrietta Lacks Health and ...

KALAMAZOO, MI -- A traveling exhibit on Henrietta Lacks is coming to Kalamazoo Public Schools’ four high schools. At their Dec. 8 meeting, the KPS Board approved a $2,400 contract to show the ...

Emma Metzger won the 4th annual contest. and a $1,500 prize. She wrote and delivered an essay about Henrietta Lacks, whose cells are credited with helping scientists develop innovations in vaccines.

The AP® participation rate at Henrietta Lacks Health And Bioscience High School (HeLa) is 79%. The total minority enrollment is 47%, and 53% of students are economically disadvantaged.

BALTIMORE (WJZ) -- On Wednesday, students from across Baltimore learned about the Maryland woman whose cells are still a vital part of medicine, decades after her death. Henrietta Lacks only lived ...

As I graduated from high school and worked my way through college toward a biology degree, HeLa cells were omnipresent. I heard about them in histology, neurology, pathology; I used them in ...

Both may wonder why Henrietta Lacks’ story is ignored in high school biology classes, where so many questions about the human body were answered by using cells taken from Lacks. “My class read it ...

In 2017, HBO released a film based on the book “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot. Starring Rose Byrne and Oprah Winfrey, the story analyzes the life of those related to ...