Over the winter break, three professors from Prairie View A&M University’s School of Architecture (PVAMU-SoA) traveled to Nepal. Their primary focus -- to measure the damage that was done to five historic temples in the country’s capital during a catastrophic earthquake in 2015. “My colleagues Stephen Song, Pankaj Chhetri and I scanned and measured the [...]
Take cover! It’s definitely “Storm Season” for the Marching Storm at Prairie View A&M University. The band performed in front of their largest audience yet at the 91st Annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. They were picked from nearly 200 applicants to be one of ten bands that headlined the nationally-televised event. “I am excited for the [...]
Cadet Loretta Williams, a senior biology major at Prairie View A&M University, who is also in PVAMU’s Army-ROTC program, is going places. Post-graduation, she wants to be a pilot. She also wants to defend our country on the front line in the infantry. “I have always been passionate about wanting to give back to the [...]
“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 [...]
Prairie View A&M University alumni are making a difference from Texas all the way to Madison, Wisconsin. That’s where TJ McCray, director of Instructional Technology and Media Services for the Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD), and Victoria Crosby, who is pursuing a law degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, recently volunteered to help recruit future Panthers [...]
Retention rates at Prairie View A&M University reached their highest level in seven years. According to recent data, the percentage of incoming students who returned for their second year sat at 71 percent. In prior years, that number hovered between 64 and 69 percent, with 2009 being the last cohort to reach 71 percent. Similarly, [...]
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 [...]
A group of students from Prairie View A&M University’s School of Architecture took home second place in the American Institute of Architects, Custom Residential Architects Network (AIA CRAN) and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA)’s 2017 HERE+NOW: A House for the 21st Century Residential Student Design Competition. The competition had more than 560 [...]
The College of Nursing held its White Coat Ceremony on November 4 in the Opal Johnson-Smith Auditorium. There were 37 prospective clinical admits for the class of spring 2018. In addition to the College of Nursing, the Prairie View Student Nurses Association (PVSNA) and the Student Government Association (SGA) sponsored the event. The next White [...]
During the week of Thanksgiving, College of Business Instructor Danny J. Harvey took seven students to New York City. They visited the New York Federal Reserve, Williams Capital Group, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, New York Stock Exchange, Bank of New York Mellon, Goldman Sachs, CastleOak Securities, and the Museum of American Finance. “Our trip [...]
