Today, looking back at my life growing up and forward toward future possibilities, I’m struck by how the flow of life events is like the wind. Events that change us and redirect our lives may begin very subtly, like as small changes in air temperature. There is a slight rustle of tree leaves; yet if [...]

Significant numbers of today’s women and underrepresented minority chemists and chemical engineers (40 percent) say they were discouraged from pursuing a STEM career (science, technology, engineering or mathematics) at some point in their lives, according to a new Bayer Corporation survey. U.S. colleges are cited by them as the leading place in the American education [...]

This document reports on the results of an ad hoc workshop of leadingthinkers in the sciences and arts who met at Dartmouth College in November2000. These individuals—winners of National Medals of Science andTechnology, Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers,leaders in industry and small business, university presidents and deans, writers,theologians and financiers—discussed the future [...]

News Release Bayer Corporation 100 Bayer Road Pittsburgh, PA 15205-9741 Phone: 412 777-5200 www.BayerUS.com PITTSBURGH, MARCH 22, 2010 — Significant numbers of today’s women and underrepresented minority chemists and chemical engineers (40 percent) say they were discouraged from pursuing a STEM career (science, technology, engineering or mathematics) at some point in their lives, according to [...]

Dr Mae Jemison with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian narrating “The Planets” by Gustaf Holst.  The event was held as part of the celebration of NASA’s 50th anniversary.  Read the narration script and listen to a bite sized piece of the music.

As Lt. Palmer, Dr. Mae was the first real astronaut and individual to have actually flown in space aboard the starship Enterprise.  Appearing in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, ‘Second Chances’ in 1993.”