Mae Jemison - Honors and Awards

Honors and Awards

  • 1988 Essence Science and Technology Award
  • 1990 Gamma Sigma Gamma Woman of the Year
  • 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
  • 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
Institutions
  • 1992 Mae C. Jemison Science and Space Museum, Wilbur Wright College, Chicago, Illinois
  • 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 Letters, Winston Salem College, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
  • 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

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