Peace Corps Online | February 9, 2005: Index: PCOL Exclusive: Staffer Mae Jemison

February 9, 2005: Index: PCOL Exclusive: Staffer Mae Jemison

Peace Corps Online: Directory: Sierra Leone: Special Report: Sierra Leone Peace Corps Medical Officer and NASA Mission Specialist Dr. Mae Jemison: February 9, 2005: Index: PCOL Exclusive: Staffer Mae Jemison

Sierra Leone and Liberia Peace Corps Medical Officer and NASA Mission Specialist Dr. Mae Jemison

Sierra Leone Peace Corps Medical Officer and NASA Mission Specialist Dr. Mae Jemison

2008.01.31: January 31, 2008: Headlines: Figures: COS - Sierra Leone: Staff: Science: Space: Miami Herald: Jemison will be the featured speaker at 100th anniversary of the founding of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority 02/15 07:50am [1]
2008.01.20: January 20, 2008: Headlines: Figures: COS - Sierra Leone: Staff: Science: Space: African American Issues: Detroit Free Press: Jemison says Martin Luther King's dream wasn't an illusive fantasy but a call to action 02/15 07:49am [1]
2007.07.20: July 20, 2007: Headlines: Figures: COS - Sierra Leone: Staff: Science: Space: Business: Associated Press: Gen-Probe declines Mae Jemison's resignation from Board of Directors 07/22 03:17pm [1]
2002.06.01: June 1, 2002: Headlines: Figures: COS - Sierra Leone: Staff: Science: Space: Dance: The Oprah Magazine: Mae Jemison built a dance studio in her home 07/09 06:33pm [1]
2007.03.04: March 4, 2007: Headlines: Figures: COS - Sierra Leone: Staff: Science: Space: Metrowest Daily News: Mae Jemison speaks at Wellesley College 03/04 01:46pm [1]
2007.02.01: February 1, 2007: Headlines: Figures: COS - Sierra Leone: Staff: Science: Space: African American Issues: Yahoo News: Mae Jemison launches Roche's celebration of Black History Month 02/16 10:09am [1]
2007.02.02: February 2, 2007: Headlines: Figures: COS - Sierra Leone: Staff: Science: Space: Fund Raising: Fashion: Canada.com: Mae Jemison wears red for charity as NY fashion week opens 8 days of previews 02/14 10:12am [1]
1987.12.01: December 1, 1987: Headlines: Figures: COS - Sierra Leone: Staff: Science: Space: NASA Pictures: Photos of Mae Jemison preparing for her flight on STS-47 11/21 05:13am [1]
2006.10.06: October 6, 2006: Headlines: Figures: COS - Sierra Leone: Staff: Science: Space: Chicago Defender: Mae Jemison tells Chicago girls to reach for the stars 10/19 11:14am [1]
2006.09.21: September 21, 2006: Headlines: Figures: COS - Sierra Leone: Staff: Science: Space: EurWeb: Mae Jemison launches 'Reality Leads Fantasy—Celebrating Women of Color in Flight' 09/26 08:55am [1]
2006.04.06: April 6, 2006: Headlines: Figures: COS - Sierra Leone: Staff: Science: Space: Dawgnet : Mae Jemison speaks at Butler 07/03 11:52pm [1]
2006.02.09: February 9, 2006: Headlines: Figures: COS - Sierra Leone: Staff: Science: Space: Indianapolis Star : Profile of Mae Jemison 03/22 05:44am [1]
2006.03.11: March 11, 2006: Headlines: Figures: COS - Sierra Leone: Staff: Science: Space: Boston Globe: Mae Jemison reveals star trek influence 03/22 05:41am [1]
2006.02.02: February 2, 2006: Headlines: Figures: COS - Sierra Leone: Staff: Science: Space: Genetics: Seattle Times: Mae Jemison takes part in Genetic Research Project 11/03 03:40pm [2]
January 21, 2006: Headlines: Figures: COS - Sierra Leone: Staff: Science: Space: Fort Worth Star Telegram: Mae Jemison urges students to use talent well 02/02 10:06am [1]
January 17, 2006: Headlines: Figures: COS - Sierra Leone: Staff: Science: Space: Health Care: Monsters and Critics.com: Astronaut Mae Jemison focuses on what she sees as unacceptable disparities in the quality of healthcare in the United States and Third World nations 02/02 09:54am [1]
November 27, 2005: Headlines: Figures: COS - Sierra Leone: Staff: Science: Space: ChallengerNKY.com: Mae Jemison to Speak at Toyota Event 12/02 12:14pm [1]
October 5, 2005: Headlines: Figures: COS - Sierra Leone: Staff: Science: Space: Washington University in St. Louis: Groundbreaking astronaut to explore science and human potential 10/07 12:36pm [1]
August 1, 2005: Headlines: Figures: COS - Sierra Leone: Staff: Science: Space: COS - China: The People's Daily: Mae Jemison. lays wreath for air martyrs in China 08/07 05:17pm [1]
June 30, 2005: Headlines: Figures: COS - Sierra Leone: Staff: Science: Space: COS - China: People's Daily Online: Mae Jemison to visit China 07/02 02:26pm [1]
May 26, 2005: Headlines: Figures: COS - Sierra Leone: Staff: Science: Space: VOA: Mae Jemison says the survey also found a bias that may discourage young women from considering science studies 05/28 01:22pm [1]
May 23, 2005: Headlines: Figures: COS - Sierra Leone: Staff: Science: Space: Awards: The Sentinel: Mae Jemison receives honorary degree at Wilson College 05/28 01:20pm [2]
April 30, 2005: Headlines: Figures: COS - Sierra Leone: Staff: Science: Space: Finger Lakes Times: Work for the future: Dr. Mae Jemison wants a better world 04/18 08:07pm [2]
April 29, 2005: Headlines: Figures: COS - Sierra Leone: Staff: Science: Space: Nasa: Peace Corps Medical Officer Mae C. Jemison was first African-American Woman in Space 05/05 08:18pm [1]
April 15, 2005: Headlines: Figures: COS - Sierra Leone: Staff: Space: Science: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: Mae Jemison, who grew up on Chicago's working-class South Side to become the first black woman to go into space, believes science literacy must begin at a young age 04/17 07:01pm [1]
February 21, 2005: Headlines: COS - Sierra Leone: Space: Science: Minorities: The Daily Northwestern: Solving global problems will require fusing the disparate approaches of science and the arts, says former astronaut Mae Jemison 02/26 06:26pm [1]

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Staffer Mae Jemison

Staffer Mae Jemison

Staffer Mae Jemison: Mae Jemison to speak at Keuka College 1 February 2005

Staffer Mae Jemison: Keynote speaker Mae Jemison offered thoughts on King, diversity, science and life 17 January 2005

Staffer Mae Jemison: King's Legacy: NASA hired Nichelle Nichols to recruit blacks and women to become astronauts, and she and Dr. Mae Jemison, who became NASA's first black female astronaut in 1987, have remained friends 17 January 2005

Staffer Mae Jemison: Determined to make a difference, Mae Jemison served two-and-a-half years as a Peace Corps medical officer in Sierra Leone and Liberia before joining NASA in 1987. 10 January 2005

Staffer Mae Jemison: Mae Jemison had cameo in Star Trek: The Next Generation 5 January 2005

Staffer Mae Jemison: Five years ago, Mae Jemison came to Clayton to promote the launch of a partnership between Bayer Healthcare and Johnston County Schools to teach a new hands-on science program in four of the district's elementary schools. She returned Wednesday, when the pharmaceutical company gave Johnston schools the largest of its five yearly grants -- $50,000 -- to expand the program to all 19 Johnston elementary schools. 11 November 2004

Staffer Mae Jemison: Mae Jemison from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 31 October 2004

Staffer Mae Jemison: 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 29 October 2004

Staffer Mae Jemison: 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." 6 October 2004

Staffer Mae Jemison: 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 5 October 2004

Staffer Mae Jemison: Sierra Leone PC Medical Officer Mae Jemison says it was easier to apply to be a shuttle astronaut, "rather than waiting around in a cornfield, waiting for ET to pick me up or something." 2 September 2004

Staffer Mae Jemison: Sierra Leone Peace Corps Medical Officer Mae Jemison elected to Gen-Probe Board of Directors 16 March 2004

Staffer Mae Jemison: Mae Jemison went to work for the Peace Corps where she was stationed in Sierra Leone and Liberia as the area Peace Corps medical officer 26 February 2004

Staffer Mae Jemison: 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." 20 March 2003

Staffer Mae Jemison: "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." 19 February 2003

Staffer Mae Jemison: Peace Corps Doctor Mae Jemison answers the question "What Was Space Like?" 2 February 2003

Staffer Mae Jemison: Peace Corps Doctor Mae Jemison diagnosed meningitis in volunteer 2 February 2003

Staffer Mae Jemison: Sierra Leone PC Medical Officer Mae Jemison talks about pursuing the dream 17 March 2002

Staffer Mae Jemison: Dr. Mae Jemison: Astronaut and RPCV 13 February 2002

Staffer Mae Jemison: PC Staffer Mae Jemison honored with Multicultural Prism Awards 1 February 2002

Staffer Mae Jemison: 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." 29 September 1999

Staffer Mae Jemison: 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 1 July 1996

Staffer Mae Jemison: 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." 1 January 1993

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Ask Not
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