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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