In September, McLennan County’s newest 4-H SPIN club known as “Success Seekers” began its year by hosting a Fashion Storyboard workshop. This initial workshop featured a guest speaker from the 4-H State Clothing and Textile Advisory Board and the 1st Vice President of the Advisory Board, Samantha Merrifield to the Tuesday night meeting to explain ...
Conlee Paul Herrera Fry is a senior from Hockley, Texas currently studying Animal Science in the College of Agriculture and Human Sciences. Conlee’s success in the College of Agriculture and Human Sciences is attributed in part to his experience gained from the visit he and other students took to Namibia which reinforced his desire to ...
Beaumont, TX - Homer Drive Elementary, in partnership with Prairie View A&M University Cooperative Extension’s Teaching Agricultural Sustainability Through Economics (T.A.S.T.E) Program has received a $5,000 Lowe’s Toolbox for Education grant for their afterschool entrepreneurship/gardening project. We are thrilled to announce that Lowe’s has awarded Homer Drive Elementary funding for the afterschool entrepreneurship/gardening club and ...
Christopher Wong discovered his passion for the field of research through agriculture. He discovered this passion after freshman year while spending a summer at North Dakota State University, returning to Prairie View A&M University and deciding to change his major from engineering to join the student community in the College of Agriculture and Human Sciences. ...
As summer transitions to fall, college students are returning to campus and finding themselves responsible for making their own decisions. One of those decisions would be related to healthy living. Eating and being physically active, when, where and how often they choose can sometimes lead to the dreaded “freshmen 15” and other unhealthy consequences. However, ...
Wash A. Jones, assistant professor in the Department of Agriculture, Nutrition and Human Ecology, recently co-led the first half of a study abroad trip for 16 students to Namibia. The trip, funded primarily by a three-year research grant from the United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture, was a joint venture between ...
Childhood obesity is a national epidemic. Observing the numbers of youth currently experiencing this trend and the projected outcomes are staggering. Over 30 percent or 23 million youth between the ages of 2 – 19 are obese or overweight (1 in 2 minority children) Overweight and obese youth are at high risk to develop heart ...
