When:
Monday, January 23, 2017
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CT
Where: Robert H Lurie Medical Research Center, Hughes Auditorium , 303 E. Superior, Chicago, IL 60611 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public
Cost: Lunch will be served.
Contact:
Teresa Mastin
Group: FSM Office of Diversity and Inclusion
Category: Multicultural & Diversity
Mae Jemison
Physician & Astronaut
Dr. Mae C. Jemison is currently leading 100 Year Starship (100YSS), an initiative seed funded by DOD’s Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) to assure the capability for human interstellar space travel to another star is possible within the next 100 years. She also is founder of the technology consulting firm, The Jemison Group, Inc. that integrates the critical impact of socio-cultural issues when designing and implementing technologies, such as their projects on using satellite technology for health care delivery in West Africa and solar dish Stirling engines for electricity generation in developing countries.
Dr. Jemison, the first woman of color in the world to go into space, served six years as a NASA astronaut. She flew aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour, STS-47 Spacelab J(apan) mission in September 1992 and was NASA’s first Science Mission Specialist performing experiments in material science, life science and human adaptation to weightlessness.