Academy Award-winner Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Oscar nominee Terrence Howard, along with fellow cast members, wowed attendees at the Houston advanced screening of Red Tails, hosted by Dr. Mae Jemison. President George H.W. Bush and Mrs. Barbara Bush were among those who attended the screening. “This action-packed film moved my wife to tears,” said President [...]
Current Projects
Houston Student Viewing of “Double Victory”
The Houston Student Screening of Double Victory Follow up to the Red Tails Advance Screening The second event organized by the Dorothy Jemison Foundation for Excellence in collaboration with Lucasfilm was a student screening of the documentary Double Victory. The documentary was created to highlight the story of the Tuskegee Airmen and was told [...]
TEWS-Spacerace
TEWS-Spacerace was based on The Earth We Share (TEWS) international science camp programs and methodology developed by Dr. Jemison that have been held across the US and internationally since 1994. Partnering with Los Angeles Tomorrows’s Aeronautical Museum, TEWS—Space Race is winner of a NASA Summer of Innovation award and had its blast off this summer [...]
Dorothy Jemison Foundation for Excellence
“The Dorothy Jemison Foundation for Excellence (DJF) is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization established by Dr. Mae C. Jemison to honor and implement the teaching principals and life accomplishments of her late mother Dorothy Jemison, a teacher in the Chicago Public Schools for over 25 years. Mrs. Jemison believed and taught that the desire for excellence—while [...]
The Earth We Share (TEWS)
Science literacy is crucial to the well-being of societies and countries around the world. Every day technology becomes more significant in shaping the world’s economy, our homes, cultures and relationships. The future prosperity of nations around the world is intimately intertwined via advancing information, transportation, and agricultural technologies and the environment. The Earth We Share [...]
BioSentient
“BioSentient is a medical devices company focused on advanced ambulatory physiologic monitoring and physiologic training to improve health and human performance. BioSentient’s ambulatory and easy to use clinical monitoring give athletic trainers insight into physiologic conditioning and forewarns of heat stroke and other diagnostic melodies. Pharmaceutical researchers can evaluate the impact of medications on the [...]
