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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 [...]

Opinion| A nature-based solution approach can effectively support climate change initiatives and protect the planet

The global theme of Earth Day 2024 is Planet vs. Plastics. This theme clearly indicates that we should act quickly to reduce the use of plastic to protect the Earth before it is too late. However, it is not only plastic that is threatening the planet. Several other human-induced activities are negatively impacting the environment [...]

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 [...]

First-Gen Forward: William McPhail Jr. is repurposing sacrifice into triumph

William McPhail Jr. PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (April 17, 2024) - Some people take years to find their purpose, the thing that gives them direction and meaning. But others, like William McPhail Jr., are born with a veil, gifted with the vision to see their destiny from day one. ā€œI have always been interested [...]

KPRC-TV: A closer look at PVAMU’s new Blackstone LaunchPad program for budding entrepreneurs

Prairie View A&M University is launching an initiative dedicated to supporting the next generation of entrepreneurs.

Waco Tribune-Herald: Knowing a coach’s value, PVAMU’s Barbara Jacket made lasting impact

Sit in the gymnasium at Prairie View A&M and look up, and you'll find two decades' worth of women's track and field championship banners hanging from the rafters ā€” 18 national championships, 23 Southwestern Athletic Conference championships, 57 All-Americans and five Olympic contenders.

2024-04-15T14:05:25-05:00April 15, 2024|Athletics, Latest News, PV in the News, Staff News|

PVAMU finishes sixth, winning $50K in The Home Depotā€™s Retool Your School contest

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (April 12, 2024) - Prairie View A&M Universityā€™s PV Nation voted tirelessly for five weeks for The Home Depotā€™s Retool Your School contest, emerging in sixth place with a $50,000 prize! The award money will go towards improvements to the Universityā€™s student park. Nearly $3 million in grants for campus enhancements were [...]

2024-04-12T12:48:19-05:00April 12, 2024|Alumni News, HBCU News, Latest News, Philanthropy, PV in the News|

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 [...]