PVAMU Receives Half-Million Dollar Grant to Improve its Computer Network

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Prairie View A&M University $499,964 to revamp its computer network, all in the name of research. The project called INCREASE, or Improve Network on Campus for Research and Education in Agriculture, Science, and Engineering, should significantly improve upload and download times while allowing data-intensive research projects unrestricted access [...]

PVAMU Receives Half-Million Dollar Grant to Improve its Computer Network2021-02-22T09:14:47-06:00

CoJJ Professor Presents at International Conference

Dr. Sesha Kethineni, a faculty member in the Department of Justice Studies, attended the European Society of Criminology Conference in Sarajevo, Bosnia, and Herzegovina under the title Crimes against Humans and Crimes against Humanity: Challenges for Modern Criminology. She and her co-authors presented a paper on the Protection of Children from Sexual Abuse Act, [...]

CoJJ Professor Presents at International Conference2021-06-07T10:22:48-05:00

Nursing Professor Researches Smartphone App Designed to Save Lives

Preventing abnormally high blood pressure, or hypertension, can save a life. If this “silent killer” is left untreated, hypertension can lead to stroke, congestive heart failure, or progression of coronary heart disease. According to new research, African-American women are twice as likely as other ethnic groups to suffer from hypertension and hypertension-related complications. Dr. Vanessa Monroe, [...]

Nursing Professor Researches Smartphone App Designed to Save Lives2019-12-15T14:32:13-06:00

New PVAMU Center to Tackle Worldwide Issue: Food Insecurity

In the United States, about 13 percent, or one in seven people, are food insecure. In other words, they are unable to access a sufficient amount of affordable and nutritious food. In Texas, that number is higher, and experts say it will get worse as the world’s population continues to grow if steps are not [...]

New PVAMU Center to Tackle Worldwide Issue: Food Insecurity2019-12-15T14:32:13-06:00

Cooperative Agricultural Research Center Hosts Summer Research Symposium

This summer, Prairie View A&M University’s Cooperative Agricultural Research Center (CARC), under the College of Agriculture and Human Sciences, hired 44 students from PVAMU, Texas A&M University, University of Houston, University of Texas-San Antonio and Texas Tech University. They assisted researchers with laboratory exercises and research objectives aimed at discovery and innovation for our stakeholders [...]

Cooperative Agricultural Research Center Hosts Summer Research Symposium2019-12-15T14:32:13-06:00

Research Journal Highlights Undergraduate Projects

The second issue of the undergraduate research journal PURSUE came out this summer. Students from three colleges and universities, including Prairie View A&M, contributed. “Six students from Prairie View wrote five articles for Volume 1, Issue 2. We also had students from Texas A&M University-Commerce and Knox College participate,” said Assistant Professor of Biology and [...]

Research Journal Highlights Undergraduate Projects2018-08-06T16:26:25-05:00

Nursing Students Use Photography to Encourage Change

Dr. Michelle DeBose, an assistant professor in Prairie View A&M University’s graduate Nursing program, recently presented at the 14th Annual Faculty Development Conference in Lexington, Kentucky. Her topic: Community Engagement and PhotoVoice: Innovative Teaching Strategy Incorporated into a Graduate Level Nursing Course. “At the workshop on May 10, I shared with other faculty members the [...]

Nursing Students Use Photography to Encourage Change2019-12-15T14:32:14-06:00

NSF Awards Funding for Biology Professor’s Weed Control Research

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Dr. Yolander Youngblood, assistant professor of Biology at Prairie View A&M University, a $300,000 grant to study the weed Amaranthus palmeri. Amaranthus palmeri is an aggressive weed that is native to our part of the U.S. “This particular plant is considered to be a nuisance weed to some, one that invades [...]

NSF Awards Funding for Biology Professor’s Weed Control Research2018-05-15T09:13:59-05:00

Nursing Professor Publishes Chapter in New Book

Pamela Brandy-Webb, MSN, RN, a clinical assistant professor in Prairie View A&M University’s College of Nursing, published Chapter 48 in “Maternal & Child Health Nursing, 8th Edition,” called Nursing Care of a Family When a Child Has an Endocrine or a Metabolic Disorder. “Chapter 48 describes both physical and psychosocial changes that occur when children [...]

Nursing Professor Publishes Chapter in New Book2019-12-15T14:32:14-06:00

Sociology Professor Working to Improve Prairie View Residents’ Quality of Life

The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently invited Dr. Farrah Gafford Cambrice, an assistant professor of Sociology at Prairie View A&M University, to participate on a panel during the 2018 U.S. Ignite Application Summit in Kansas City, Missouri. Her job was to talk about her role in PVAMU’s Smart and Connected Rural Communities Planning Grant. “The [...]

Sociology Professor Working to Improve Prairie View Residents’ Quality of Life2018-05-15T09:18:01-05:00