Happy 68th birthday to Doctor and Engineer Mae Jemison! She was the first black woman in space. She flew aboard the space shuttle Endeavour in 1992, working on experiments including bone cell research. Dr. Mae Carol Jemison is a physician and retired astronaut. After her medical education and a brief general practice, Dr. Jemison served in the Peace Corps from 1985-1987, when she was selected by NASA to join the astronaut corps. She resigned from NASA in 1993 to form a company researching the application of technology to daily life. She has appeared on television several times, including as an actress in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Dr. Jemison is a dancer, and holds 9 honorary doctorates in science, engineering, letters, and the humanities. HONORS & AWARDS: 🏆1988 Essence Science and Technology Award 🏆1991 McCall's 10 Outstanding Women for the 90s 🏆1991 Pumpkin Magazine's (a Japanese Monthly) One of the Women for the Coming New Century 🏆1992 Johnson Publications Black Achievement Trailblazers Award 🏆1993 National Women's Hall of Fame 🏆1993 Ebony magazine 50 Most Influential women 🏆1993 Kilby Science Award 🏆1993 Montgomery Fellow, Dartmouth 🏆1993 People magazine's "50 Most Beautiful and sexy People in the World" 🏆1993 Turner Trumpet Award 🏆1997 Chicago History Museum "Making History Award" for Distinction in Science Medicine and Technology. 🏆2002 listed among the 100 Greatest African Americans according to Molefi Kete Asante. 🏆2003 Intrepid Award by the National Organization for girls 🏆2004 International Space Hall of Fame NASA Space Flight Medal 🏆2005 The National Audubon Society, Rachel Carson Award Institutions: 🚀1992 Mae C. Jemison Science and Space Museum, Wilbur Wright College 🚀1992 Mae C. Jemison Academy, an alternative public school in Detroit, Michigan 🚀2001 Mae Jemison School, an elementary public school in Hazel Crest, Illinois 🚀2007 Bluford Drew Jemison STEM Academy, a public charter school in Baltimore, Maryland Doctors honoris causa: 🚀1991 Doctor of Science, Lincoln College, Pennsylvania 🚀2000 Doctor of Humanities, Princeton University 🚀2005 Doctor of Science, Wilson College 🚀2006 Doctor of Science, Dartmouth College 🚀2007 Doctor of Engineering, Harvey Mudd College 🚀2007 Doctor of Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 🚀2008 Doctor of Humanities, DePaul University 🚀2009 Doctor of Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of NYU.

The medium is the message 🎨 Designed in collaboration with local artist Anthony Joseph, our Black History Month kit “symbolizes unity, pride, and a celebration of Black culture” and hopes to “inspire open-dialogue and bring communities together.” #VWFC x #BlackHistoryMonth