Mae Jemison was born October 17 ... Mae graduated high school at age 16 and entered Stanford the same year on a National Achievement Scholarship. It wasn’t until years later that she realized ...

Mae Jemison has inspired countless African American girls to ... At the age of 16, her passion for exploration led her to Stanford University, receiving a B.S. degree in chemical engineering in 1977, ...

Born in the 1950s, Jemison would let nothing stop her from ... At that early age, she traveled across the country to California to attend Stanford University. Being one of the few African ...

Born in 1956 in Decatur, Alabama, Mae Carol Jemison moved to Chicago ... Would they think these were the only humans?’” Jemison began studying at Stanford University when she was just 16 ...

Mae Jemison is a physician, engineer, educator, entrepreneur and the first woman of color in the world to go into space - she was a NASA astronaut for six years. Currently Mae devotes much of her ...