Jemison's academic prowess and determination propelled her to medical school, earning her Doctor of Medicine degree from Cornell University in 1981. She then worked as a general practitioner before ...

Mae Jemison was born October 17 ... believes is key to building a good future for society. Mae graduated high school at age 16 and entered Stanford the same year on a National Achievement Scholarship.

Baltimore City Public Schools seeks to name parts of a high school and the school district’s central art gallery after Black ...

BROOKSVILLE — Nehemiah Johnson has a hero in astronaut Dr. Mae Jemison, the first Black woman to travel to space. A group of ...

Jemison didn’t start her career in space. She first attended Cornell Medical School, where she got her doctorate in medicine and practiced general medicine. Her talents also didn’t stop in ...

Mae Jemison is a physician, engineer, educator, entrepreneur and the first woman of color in the world to go into space - she was a NASA astronaut for six years. Currently Mae devotes much of her ...

From Mae Jemison, the first Black female astronaut to travel in space, to Dr. Selma Masri, a biological chemistry professor ...