The Larry and Julie Poeppel Family Common Read Lecture unites students from all majors in reading the same book during fall semester of their first year.


Each fall, the NSU Honors Program hosts a Common Read lecture, supported by the generous endowment of the Larry and Julie Poeppel family. The Common Read lecture is free and open to all of campus and the Aberdeen community. The speaker is either the author of the Common Read book or a person with expertise on the central theme of the book.

 

2023 Common Read 

The fall 2023 Common Read book will be “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” by Rebecca Skloot. Two members of the Lacks family will present the Larry and Julie Poeppel Family Common Read Lecture at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 27 in the Johnson Fine Arts Center. Learn more here.

 

Book cover image of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

 

Authors and Speakers

 

 

Members of the Lacks family are pictured with author Rebecca Skloot. (Photo courtesy of the Lyceum Speakers Agency press kit.)