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Former astronaut Mae Jemison made history when she became the first woman of color to travel in space. Now she's helping other women enter the sciences.
Two Nobel laureates and an astronaut are among the newest class of internationally renowned scholars selected to collaborate with faculty and students at Texas A&M University.
Mae Jemison, in full Mae Carol Jemison, (born October 17, 1956, Decatur, Alabama, U.S.), American physician and the first African American woman to become an astronaut. In 1992 she spent more than a week orbiting Earth in the space shuttle Endeavour. Jemison moved with her family to Chicago at the age of three. There she was introduced to science by her uncle and developed interests throughout her childhood in anthropology, archaeology, evolution, and astronomy. While still a high school student, she became interested in biomedical engineering, and after graduating in 1973, at the age of 16, she entered Stanford University.