CAHS Graduate Student Presents ResearchResearch is one of the fundamental activities of the College of Agriculture and Human Sciences and Prairie View A&M University.  Many graduate assistants participate in research that influences issues that are happening in the community. Nakita Bowman, Human Sciences major, and Rukeia Draw-Hood, Program Leader 4-H and Youth Development Program, are conducting an applied research project entitled “Methods to Mobilize the Community Toward Civic Engagement and Improvement of Citizen-Police Relations” under the leadership of Carolyn Williams, Associate Administrator-Cooperative Extension Program (CEP).

This project’s goal is to bring interested agencies, interdisciplinary professionals, communities, and youth together on local and national levels to engage in dialogue, research, and civic life in a way that eases the tensions between police and citizens.  A research project has been proposed in collaboration with William Turner, Social Science and Allied Research Scientist Leader in the Cooperative Agricultural Research Center.

Bowman participated in a Penchakucha style presentation (a competition of 15 slides and each slide limited to 20 seconds of explanation) at the 4th Annual Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate Conference and a 15-minute presentation during the 13th Annual TAMUS Pathways Student Research Symposium held November 3-4.

Rukeia Draw-Hood

 

Rukeia D. Draw-Hood, Ph.D.
Program Leader, 4-H & Youth Development
rdraw-hood@pvamu.edu
(936) 261-5130