Dr. Mae Carol Jemison is the original Black Girl Nerd! She’s a chemical engineer, a physician, a dancer, and the first Black woman to go to space. Dr. Jemison proves that little Black girls with ...

More than three decades after making history aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour, Dr. Mae Jemison continues to inspire the next wave of space travelers while championing science and education on Earth.

William Shatner will deliver a spoken word performance in Bloomington on April 8, 2024, as part of Indiana University's Hoosier Cosmic Celebration. When is the Hoosier Cosmic Celebration at IU's ...

Johns Hopkins' 42nd annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration will be held from noon to 1:30 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 12, in the Chevy Chase Auditorium on the East Baltimore campus. The program will ...

Mae Carol Jemison is an engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut. She became the first African-American woman to travel into space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space ...

The first black woman to ever venture into space chided a CBS anchor after the journalist used the term “mankind” in an interview with her leading up to Blue Origin’s historic all-female flight Monday ...

Mae Carol Jemison was born Oct. 17, 1956, in Decatur, Ala. When she was a few years old her family moved to Chicago, where she spent the rest of her childhood. Growing up she knew she wanted to be a ...

It didn't matter if it was yucky, like pus, or complicated, like the chemical composition of stars -- if it seemed interesting, Mae Jemison wanted to learn about it. "It sounds a little gross, but I ...

From Marie Sklodowska Curie to Dr. Mae Carol Jemison, women and minorities have been long-term STEM contributors making breakthroughs in radioactivity, chemotherapy, and pharmaceutical chemistry. As a ...