Mae Jemison Works Cited. American Institute of Physics. American Medical Women's Association. Jemison, MD. Clark Hine, Darlene. Black Women in America. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, National Women's Hall of Fame. Trischitta, Linda. February 18, How to Cite this page. Date accessed. Additional Resources. Jemison, Mae. As a Peace Corps Area Medical Officer I learned a lot about developing countries, about health care in those situations; and as an astronaut I learned an awful lot about remote sensing satellite telecommunications and all of these nice things And that really set the tone for a lot of the work that I did later on, which was looking at: how do you use advanced technologies in developing countries.
How do you blend social issues with technology design. I was always aware of space exploration. I followed the Gemini, the Mercury, and the Apollo programs, I had books about them and I always assumed I would go into space. When I went to school I wanted to major in Biomedical Engineering, and back then there was really no course curriculum in Biomedical Engineering.
So I was steered toward the Chemical Engineering school. Or how do you look at different kinds of polymers that are used in biological materials or systems? And so I ended up going into Chemical Engineering because of that. Because I could get a classical engineering degree, and then I could follow it up with more medicine and more biology. Then it was very interesting, because I got some of the best counseling advice I've ever gotten. One was from an M.
Because sometimes M. I was told that also by an electrical engineering professor who happened to have an M. And you get to also learn all about the body. You learn about the therapies that you're going to put into play.
Because while you're doing biomedical engineering, that is, designing things to work in the body, to monitor the body, replacement parts and things like that, it's important to understand what therapeutic environment they're going to operate in. That is what is a patient like? How do people grow from day to day. You can't just build this little piece of equipment, and then not figure out whether it's going to be useful to a person. Will the person actually use it. How is it going to change their lifestyle.
When the Endeavour blasted into orbit , Dr. Mae Jemison became the first African-American woman to enter space. Jemison is an excellent jazz dancer. She is also interested in the theater. Some of her other hobbies are photography, skiing and studying foreign languages. In , Dr. Jemison resigned from NASA. She now works on projects to advance technology in developing countries. The Challenger disaster of January delayed the selection process, but when she reapplied a year later, Jemison was one of the 15 candidates chosen from a field of about 2, After more than a year of training, she became the first African American woman astronaut, earning the title of science mission specialist — a job that would make her responsible for conducting crew-related scientific experiments on the space shuttle.
When Jemison finally flew into space on September 12, , with six other astronauts aboard the Endeavour on mission STS47, she became the first African American woman in space. During her eight days in space, Jemison conducted experiments on weightlessness and motion sickness on the crew and herself.
In all, she spent more than hours in space before returning to Earth on September 20, Following her historic flight, Jemison noted that society should recognize how much both women and members of other minority groups can contribute if given the opportunity. In recognition of her accomplishments, Jemison received a number of accolades, including several honorary doctorates, the Essence Science and Technology Award, the Ebony Black Achievement Award in and a Montgomery Fellowship from Dartmouth College in In , the Mae C.
Jemison Academy, an alternative public school in Detroit, Michigan, was named after her. Jemison has been a member of several prominent organizations, including the American Medical Association, the American Chemical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and she served on the board of directors of the World Sickle Cell Foundation from to She has also served as an advisory committee member of the American Express Geography Competition and an honorary board member of the Center for the Prevention of Childhood Malnutrition.
After leaving the astronaut corps in March , Jemison accepted a teaching fellowship at Dartmouth.
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