Ninety-three students from 40 school districts across Texas attended PVAMU’s annual University Merit Scholarship Reception on March 2. The students received one of the University’s three most prestigious scholarships: the Regents’ Student Merit Scholarship, Presidential Academic Scholarship, and Distinguished Achievement Academic Scholarship. “These types of programs are designed to showcase our academically gifted students, academic [...]
Prairie View A&M University’s Undergraduate Medical Academy (UMA) held a Mini Grand Round on March 29. The speaker was Tamare’al N. Ross, M.D. According to Dr. Dennis Daniels, director of UMA, Mini Grand Rounds, held monthly, are an exchange of medical information, clinical practice delivery, research challenges and discoveries, and ideas that enhance the relevance [...]
Prairie View A&M University hosted two finance events on March 26 and March 28: Athletes in Finance and Women in Finance. Speakers ranged from financial planners and private wealth advisors to an Olympic champion and Super Bowl champion. “The events were geared around creating awareness for the Financial Planning minor offered in the College of [...]
Twelve-hundred students from nine school districts across Texas attended Middle School Partnering Day on March 21, 2018, “It’s Hollywood Style at PV.” Dr. Talitha Lewis, director of PVAMU’s Office for Strategic Partnerships and K-12 Outreach said, “This year’s Middle School Day was exciting. It was truly like we were in HOLLYWOOD with lots of talent [...]
Prairie View A&M University hosted its annual Founders’ Day and Honors Recognition Convocation on March 28, in the William “Billy” J. Nicks, Sr. Building. PVAMU’s College of Nursing, which is celebrating 100 years of service this year, hosted the event with the theme, “A Tradition of Excellence: Honoring Our Past and Navigating Our Future.” “It [...]
Nearly 1,000 FFA high school students from dozens of schools around Texas were on campus February 22 for Prairie View A&M University’s annual Invitational FFA Career Development Event (CDE). Students participated in various competitions, showing off their skills in poultry, home site, land evaluation, milk quality, public speaking, farm business management, entomology, floriculture, nursery/landscape, and [...]
Prairie View A&M University’s College of Business hosted two income tax seminars at the Northwest Houston Center January 8-9. The first one gave an update on the current federal tax developments affecting tax returns for this season, including new and pending legislation, IRS interpretations, and recent court decisions on tax laws. The second session offered [...]
“It’s Showtime at PVAMU.” That was the theme for this semester’s Elementary Partnering School Day. It could have been the theme for HISD Day a few weeks earlier. That’s because, for both programs, close to 2,000 students came to visit “The Hill.” “This was our first-ever HISD Day for the Houston Independent School District,” said [...]
More than 800 students from nearly a dozen high schools from around Texas played their hearts out at Prairie View A&M University’s Panther Stadium for High School Band Day. “Each year around June, we solicit participation from various schools for High School Band Day,” said Dr. Timmey Zachery, PVAMU’s Director of Bands. “For this year’s [...]
The United States Army Parachute Team, also known as the Golden Knights, made a surprise helicopter-to-field appearance before Prairie View A&M University’s final home game of the 2017 football season on Veterans’ Day. Six jumpers from Fort Bragg, North Carolina descended upon Panther Stadium, for the first time in PVAMU history, with a Military Appreciation Day game [...]
