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PVAMU Faculty PROfiles: This sociology professor has made it her mission to research how to close the wealth gap

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (April 25, 2024) ā€“ Prairie View A&M University Assistant Professor of Sociology Dr. Asheli Atkins wants to help marginalized entrepreneurs overcome barriers. Asheli S. Atkins, Ph.D. This has been her driving force her entire career, and now, she joins the ā€œOne Million Black Women Research Partnershipā€ to further empower Black [...]

An Interview with PVAMU SGA President Gabrielle Orji

In an effort to highlight the people who are leading colleges and universities across the nation, Watch The Yard reached out to Prairie View A&M University and did an interview with Gabrielle Orji the 2023-2024 Student Government Association president.

ABC13 Houston: PVAMU’s KPVU-TV captures sights and sounds from Chevron Championship

THE WOODLANDS, Texas (KTRK) --Ā As more than 130 of the best golfers on the planet play at Carlton Woods in the first LPGA major tournament of the season, local college students are there to bring the sights and sounds. Through a partnership between the LPGA Tour and Prairie View A&M University, KPVU - Prairie View's [...]

PVAMUā€™s Consular Tour Program is forging international connections close to home

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (April 18, 2024) ā€“ Houston is home to nearly 100 consulates, the third-highest concentration of consular offices in the U.S. These diplomatic missions, smaller than embassies, primarily focus on assisting citizens of their home countries in the host country, promoting trade and tourism, and providing visa services. As with an embassy, when [...]

PVAMU receives new grant to help train students in computing to address social issues affecting rural communities

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (April 11, 2024) - Prairie View A&M University has received a Responsible Computing Challenge award from the Mozilla Foundation, aimed at developing ā€œcurricula that empowers students to think about the social and political context of computing.ā€ Mozilla, most widely known for developing the Firefox browser, has made making the internet a force [...]

PVAMUā€™s Panther Teaching Academy inducted into Chancellor’s Academy of Teacher Educators

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (April 9, 2024) ā€” In a triumphant celebration of academic excellence and dedication to shaping the future of education, the Panther Teaching Academy team at Prairie View A&M University enjoyed recognition for receiving the prestigious 2023-2024 Chancellor's Academy of Teacher Educators award at The Texas A&M University System Chancellor's Century Council banquet. [...]

How to watch the upcoming Solar Eclipse on ‘The Hill’

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (April 3, 2024) ā€“ Prairie View A&M Universityā€™s Marvin D. and June Samuel Brailsford College of Arts & Sciences will host a viewing of the rare celestial event in the form of a total solar eclipse on April 8. With the celestial stage set, the PVAMU campus may find itself just outside [...]

PVAMU’s Dr. Jeanelle Hope talks with KPRC-TV about syllabus created surrounding BeyoncĆ©ā€™s ā€˜Renaissanceā€™ album

Dr. Jeanelle Hope, Prairie View A&M University Director and Associate Professor of African American Studies, explains BeyoncĆ©ā€™s albumā€™s significance within Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

Houston Defender: PVAMU student Jaquavous Doucette to run for city council

Most college students, like most adults in general, are politically apathetic at best and aggressively apolitical at worst. Jaquavous Doucette, known by his friends at Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) as ā€œQuaa,ā€ is not like most college students ā€“ or most adults of any age, for that matter.