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Community Development graduate featured on KPRC Newsmakers

“Tiffany Taylor Hicks was featured on KPRC’s Newsmakers to discuss the Capital One Small Business Program on March 18, 2019. She placed 3rd in the program as a graduate student in 2017. She currently serves as an Ambassador of the program and received her master’s in community development in 2018.” Video Link

Community Development graduate featured on KPRC Newsmakers2019-12-15T15:04:42-06:00

School of Architecture Scholarship

REQUIREMENTS OF ALL APPLICANTS: Be an incoming freshman, transfer or currently enrolled student (undergraduate or graduate) with a declared major in Architecture, Construction Science, Digital Media Arts or Community Development. Be in good academic and disciplinary conduct standing with the university. Have a minimum of 3.0 GPA for current/transfer students; for incoming freshmen a cumulative [...]

School of Architecture Scholarship2019-02-19T15:18:12-06:00

Architecture Professor to Use AIA Grant to Help Portion of Houston’s Aging Population

Photo credits: Shelby Skinner, Clifford Robinson, Kennia Lopez, April Ward The American Institute of Architects’ Design for Aging Knowledge Community selected Assistant Professor Jessica April Ward in Prairie View A&M University’s School of Architecture as a 2019-2020 AIA Design for Aging Fellow. As a fellow, Ward will use a $10,000 grant to further [...]

Architecture Professor to Use AIA Grant to Help Portion of Houston’s Aging Population2019-12-15T15:04:42-06:00

New Fabrication Design Center Receives AIA Houston Design Award

Prairie View A&M University’s newly constructed Fabrication Design Center won a design award from the Houston chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA). Twelve projects in the Houston metropolitan area received the award, which is based on the quality of design, resolution of the program idea, sustainable responsibility, innovation, thoughtfulness, and technique of the [...]

New Fabrication Design Center Receives AIA Houston Design Award2019-12-15T15:04:42-06:00

SoA Professor to host panel on increasing more diverse professional in the philanthropy industry

Join Tiffany D. Thomas, Assistant Professor – Community Development Program on February 29th as she moderates African-American Development Officer (AADO- NEXT Houston) panel discussion on ‘Growing the pipeline of fundraising professionals of color’ at Rice University. Registration details are on the flyer below. AADONextHouston

SoA Professor to host panel on increasing more diverse professional in the philanthropy industry2019-02-11T16:21:06-06:00

International Guest Shares Current Preservation Efforts in Nepal, with PVAMU School of Architecture

Prairie View A&M University’s School of Architecture organized an international guest lecture on the Historical Architecture of Neo-Modern Nepal – A Snapshot of Stone and Style on the Sands of Time for students of History and Theory of Architecture. The visiting faculty for the lecture was Professor Yagya Raj Bhatt from Far-western University in Kanchanpur, Nepal, [...]

International Guest Shares Current Preservation Efforts in Nepal, with PVAMU School of Architecture2019-12-15T15:04:43-06:00

Digital Media Arts Team Wins in Game Jam Competition

Seven students from Prairie View A&M University’s digital media arts program won the popular vote in Chillennium 2018, the largest student-run game jam in the world. College students from more than a dozen universities across the nation traveled to Texas A&M University October 12-14 to participate in the competition, which involved creating a video game [...]

Digital Media Arts Team Wins in Game Jam Competition2019-12-15T15:04:43-06:00

SoA AIAs chapter holds a LEGO competition

Prairie View A&M University; School of Architecture-AIAS (American Institute of Architecture Students) chapter held a LEGO competition. The competition was a way to bring a fun environment into the school. Students spend long nights and days in the Nathelyne Archie-Kennedy building and sometimes its good to bring in a healthy competition event to keep the students' spirits [...]

SoA AIAs chapter holds a LEGO competition2021-07-27T14:12:18-05:00

Architecture Professor Inspires Students to be World Changers, One Design at a Time

When Assistant Professor of Architecture Shelly Pottorf left ‘Corporate America’ five years ago to begin her teaching career at Prairie View A&M University, she sought out to make a difference. “Before I came to PVAMU, I was an architect who was solely in professional practice for 15 years,” said Pottorf. “I was working in a [...]

Architecture Professor Inspires Students to be World Changers, One Design at a Time2019-12-15T15:04:43-06:00

The 13th Annual North American Passive House Conference

(From left to right: Shannon Bryant, Cynthia Suarez-Harris, Ledell Thomas, Shannen Martin, Kennia Lopez, Shelly Pottorf) In April of 2018, a Race to Zero design team from Prairie View A&M University’s School of Architecture, nicknamed “The Mod Squad”, took home the First Place Prize in the Urban Single-Family Housing Contest and the Grand Prize in [...]

The 13th Annual North American Passive House Conference2021-06-25T09:44:29-05:00