This year, more than one million people descended upon the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo February 26 through March 17, and Prairie View A&M University was there. “This year’s exhibit activity for the College of Agriculture and Human Sciences was all about 4-H Agribotics and how they provide solutions for agriculture needs,” said by a [...]
A group of students enrolled in the Spring 2018 course AGEC 4233: Land Resource Economics traveled to Costa Rica during Spring Break. “We had a total of ten students come along, nine seniors and one junior. Nine of them are Agriculture majors, and one student is a Health major,” said Dr. Noel M. Estwick, [...]
According to webmd.com, when it comes to fat, there’s one you don’t want to cut back on: omega-3 fatty acids. You can usually find these fats in fish, nuts, and seeds. “Studies of hunter-gatherer societies and estimates of foods available during man’s evolution from paleolithic nutrition indicate that man evolved on a diet that was [...]
PVAMU’s Raymond Thomas was among 30 students who attended this year’s U.S. Department of Agriculture’s 2018 Agricultural Outlook Forum (AOF) February 22-23 in Arlington, Virginia. Thomas and his peers were chosen as winners of the USDA Student Diversity Program. “These students are the next generation of agriculture, and it is important for the USDA to [...]
Nearly 1,000 FFA high school students from dozens of schools around Texas were on campus February 22 for Prairie View A&M University’s annual Invitational FFA Career Development Event (CDE). Students participated in various competitions, showing off their skills in poultry, home site, land evaluation, milk quality, public speaking, farm business management, entomology, floriculture, nursery/landscape, and [...]
On November 9, Dr. Ali Fares, associate director of Research and professor of Water Security in Prairie View A&M University’s College of Agriculture and Human Sciences, and his colleagues, received the 2017 National Water and Energy Conservation Award at the annual meeting of the Irrigation Association in Orlando, Florida. Fares is representing PVAMU on the [...]
LaRachelle Smith (PVAMU Class of '94), who is now director of Marketing, Communications, and IT within the College of Agriculture and Human Sciences (CAHS), began her career as a project engineer with the Boeing Company’s International Space Station Program at NASA. Dr. Danielle Hairston-Green received her doctoral degree from PVAMU. But, before attending PVAMU, Danielle [...]
