{"id":7973,"date":"2026-05-01T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/hc\/?p=7973"},"modified":"2026-09-22T12:42:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T16:42:58","slug":"to-be-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/hc\/2026-event\/to-be-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"An Inclusive, Audacious Journey Transforms Life Here on Earth and Beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"watch<\/a>\n\n\n

Entrepreneur, engineer, physician, educator, humanitarian and former NASA astronaut, Dr. Mae Jemison is at the forefront of integrating the physical and social  sciences with art and culture to spark innovation and build meaningful solutions to  the world\u2019s critical problems. Jemison leads 100 Year Starship\u00ae (100YSS), a  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

nonprofit global initiative to assure that capabilities for human travel beyond our solar system to another  star exist within the next 100 years while transforming life on Earth. Co-founder and principal partner of  Signal Hill Road Publishing, LLC, Jemison seeks to bring to the public \u201cStories to elevate and ideas that  dare.\u201d <\/em>Jemison, a Fellow of the Hagler Institute for Advanced Study and Visiting Scholar at EnMed engineering medical school of Texas A&M, researches pathways to transform scientific insight into  operational therapy and optimizing biomedical instrumentation in clinical settings. Jemison\u2019s work to  improve science literacy and achieve diversity and inclusion in STEM disciplines is recognized worldwide. Dr. Jemison is on the Board of Directors of major public companies and organizations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Jemison, the first woman of color in the world to go into space, served six years as a NASA astronaut  and flew as the Science Mission Specialist aboard the joint mission NASA \u2013 Japanese space agency space  shuttle Spacelab J. Trained as an engineer, social scientist and dancer, Jemison, a medical doctor, prior to  NASA was the Area Peace Corps Medical Officer for Sierra Leone and Liberia and general practitioner in Los  Angeles.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

100YSS celebrated its 10th <\/sup>anniversary in 2023 with the international conference \u201cNexus Nairobi\u201d\u2122 \u2013 When  SPACE, PURPOSE & CULTURE Collide\u2122\u2014in Kenya, the cradle of humans. Started thru a competitive seed funding grant from DARPA, 100YSS pushes radical leaps in knowledge, technology and human systems needed for deep space exploration and the requirements for a successful human future on our home  planet, Earth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Jemison founded and developed multiple technology organizations and initiatives including The Jemison  Group, Inc. a technology consulting firm that purposefully considers and integrates critical socio-cultural  issues to start the design of engineering and science projects. As an environmental studies professor at  Dartmouth College, Dr. Jemison focused on designing sustainability into technologies for both the  industrialized and developing worlds. LOOK UP One Sky\u2122, led by Jemison, developed the \u201cSkyfie\u201d \u2122 App  that connects people, on a single day worldwide, to weave a global tapestry of what we individually see,  feel, think, love, fear, offer, need and hope as we look up at the sky. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 1994 when Dr. Jemison founded the international science camp The Earth We Share\u2122 (TEWS), the  program has designed and implemented STEM education experiences impacting thousands of students and  hundreds of teachers worldwide. In addition to TEWS, the non-profit Dorothy Jemison Foundation Jemison  for Excellence (DJF), founded and named after her mother \u2013 a teacher in Chicago Public Schools for more 25  years, have created and implemented a wide range of programs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Jemison is a member of the National Academy of Medicine Council, the Chair of the NASA Innovative  Advanced Concepts (NIAC) External Council, the board of directors of Kimberly-Clark (Chair, Sustainability  Committee) and the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards. Dr. Jemison was the starting Chair  of the Texas State Product Development and Small Business Incubator Boards among other national, state  and city projects for business incubators and small business investment, infrastructure, disaster response  and development of advanced industries and multiple Fortune 500 company boards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2023 Prix Galien Roy Vandelos Pro Bono Humanum Award for Global Health Equity, the African Union  Ambassador\u2019s inaugural Mickey Leland Award for global leadership, Forbes 50 over 50 Women List 2023, the 2022 West Point Sylvanus Thayer Award, The Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service, the  National Organization for Women\u2019s Intrepid Award, Poling Chair at the University of Indiana Kelley School  of Business and the Kilby Science Award; an inductee in the National Women\u2019s Hall of Fame, the National  Medical Association Hall of Fame, Texas Science Hall of Fame, International Space Hall of Fame; received  Honorary Ph.Ds. from, University of Dublin, KU Leuven University (Belgium), University of Delaware, Rose Hulman Institute of Technology, Washington University (St. Louis), Lincoln College, Princeton and 2018  Stanford University School of Engineering Hero, among the numerous awards recognition and honorary  degrees she has received.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Jemison, a much sought after speaker gave the Opening Session Keynote at the UN COP24, (United  Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) in Katowice, Poland; spoke at the White House  Reception on the occasion of the United States rejoining UNESCO hosted by First Lady, Dr. Jill Biden (2023),  keynoted for 50th <\/sup>Anniversary of Stanford Chemical Engineering Department and 150th <\/sup>anniversary of  Dartmouth Thayer School of Engineering and was special guest at Shanghai 2010 World Expo among many  requests. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Jemison authored \u201cFind Where the Wind Goes: Moments from My Life\u201d for teenagers, the Scholastic  True Books\u2019 100 Year Starship series on space exploration as well as co-editor of The Canopus Award  Anthology (2015 & 2017) and 100 Year Starship Symposia Proceedings. The first real astronaut to appear in the Star Trek TV series, she a LEGO mini- figurine in the Women of NASA kit, Astronaut Mae in Sesame  Street and voice and inspiration of the \u201cSkipster\u201d device in Marvel\u2019s \u201cMoon Girl and the Devil Dinosaur\u201d.  She is a series hosts of National Geographic\u2019s \u201cOne Strange Rock\u201d and was the space operations advisor for  its global miniseries docudrama, \u201cMars.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Jemison graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering  and a Bachelor of Arts degree in African and Afro-American Studies. She received her medical doctorate from Cornell University Medical College.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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