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Sierra Leone Peace Corps Medical Officer and NASA Mission Specialist Dr. Mae Jemison
- March 20, 2003: Headlines: COS - Sierra Leone: Space: Science: Education: Cornell University: Mae Jemison's studies in science didn't make her want to change the world, Jemison told her audience. Rather, "science is a means of organizing information and seeking answers. Science helps us figure out a way to ask the questions." Sunday, November 07, 2004 - 12:22 pm [1]
- February 19, 2003: Headlines: COS - Sierra Leone: Space: Science: Education: Awards: Detroit Free Press: "Dr. Jemison embodies self-determination, creativity and the importance of giving back to one's community," says museum president Christy Coleman. "She's about living a legacy, but also about creating a legacy through her foundations and other efforts." Thursday, November 13, 2008 - 10:51 pm [4]
- January 1, 1993: Headlines: COS - Sierra Leone: Space: Science: Education: Awards: Essence Magazine: Opting against a traditional career in medicine, Mae Jemison joined the U.S. Peace Corps as a medical officer in Sierra Leone and Liberia. I ask her if this has had any effect on her desire to serve others. Intriguingly enough, she bristles: "I don't believe in altruism. I've gotten much more out of what I have done than the people I was supposed to be helping. When I was in the refugee camp in Thailand, I learned more about medicine there than I could have in a lifetime somewhere else. I refuse to think those people owe me any thanks. I got a lot out of it." Sunday, November 07, 2004 - 12:21 pm [1]
- July 1, 1996: Headlines: COS - Sierra Leone: Space: Science: Education: African American Issues: Stanford Today: An engineer, physician, educator and jazz dancer, Mae Jemison is keenly aware of the obstacles that women and minorities must overcome to succeed in fields that have long been exclusionary. At 39, she is angrier than she once was about how inherently unfair that is, about how impossibly superb members of those excluded groups are expected to be in order to prove that merit, not entitlement, won them an opportunity Monday, November 05, 2007 - 9:07 pm [3]
- September 29, 1999: Headlines: COS - Sierra Leone: Space: Science: Education: African American Issues: Graduating Engineer: Mae Jemison says "Sometimes we can talk so much about roadblocks and impediments and racism and sexism that people start to bow down to it, much more than if you just mention it peripherally and you know it's there but we don't obsess on it. As you start telling that to children they start worrying that maybe they really can't make it." Sunday, November 07, 2004 - 12:20 pm [1]
- October 31, 2004: Headlines: COS - Sierra Leone: Space: Third Goal: Science: Education: Service: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Mae Jemison from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sunday, November 07, 2004 - 10:12 am [1]
- October 29, 2004: Headlines: COS - Sierra Leone: Space: Third Goal: Science: Education: Service: Albany Business Journal: Mae Jemison, the first African American female astronaut to travel into space, will deliver the keynote address at the "Women of Diversity Entrepreneurship" conference at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Severino Center for Technological Entrepreneurship on Nov. 3 Friday, October 29, 2004 - 11:46 pm [1]
- October 6, 2004: Headlines: COS - Sierra Leone: Space: Third Goal: Science: Education: Service: Northern New Jersey Recor: Dr. Mae C. Jemison who joined the Peace Corps in 1983 and spent two years as a medical officer in Africa was at Morristown to kick off a science competition for New Jersey students and told them: "We're not going to solve our problems by going to a different planet," The former astronaut, who made history in 1992 when she boarded the space shuttle Endeavor on an eight-day mission added, "We must teach critical thinking." Saturday, October 09, 2004 - 12:45 am [1]
- October 5, 2004: Headlines: COS - Sierra Leone: Space: Third Goal: Science: Education: Service: US Newswire: Astronaut Mae C. Jemison who joined the Peace Corps in 1983 and spent two years as a medical officer in Africa Launches New Bayer Competition for Students Who Want to Change the World Saturday, February 04, 2006 - 11:12 am [2]