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First HBCU to Sign the Green Chemistry Commitment and Break Silos – Prairie View A&M University

Our recent partnership with Dow, allowed us to engage their academic partners around the Green Chemistry Commitment program and resulted in the first historically black university, Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) signing onto the Commitment. PVAMU joined the Commitment in June 2020 and despite the ever-changing and challenging times in higher education due to the [...]

First HBCU to Sign the Green Chemistry Commitment and Break Silos – Prairie View A&M University2020-10-12T12:08:36-05:00

First-generation PVAMU student graduates with 4.0

Raul Martinez is not your typical college student. He's 26. He's married. He works full-time. He's a transfer student. But his eight-year journey to get a degree shows that he's not only hardworking and intelligent, but he's also got a grit that keeps him going. He graduates as part of the Class of Spring 2020, [...]

First-generation PVAMU student graduates with 4.02020-05-12T13:10:42-05:00

PVAMU’s Marching Storm Headed to 2020 Honda Battle of the Bands

After a one-year hiatus, the Honda Battle of the Bands (HBOB) Invitational Showcase is back in Atlanta, Georgia, and the Prairie View A&M University Marching Storm is one of eight finalists to perform. This year’s performance will be the Storm’s ninth appearance in the Battle. "I was surprised," said Colangelo Tolbert, one of the Marching [...]

PVAMU’s Marching Storm Headed to 2020 Honda Battle of the Bands2020-01-21T16:29:56-06:00

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Legacy: The Fierce Urgency of Service

"...all life is interrelated…somehow we're caught in an inescapable network of mutuality tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly." This month, we celebrate the 91st birthday of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He said the above words in 1962 at Oakwood College just months before his Albany, [...]

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Legacy: The Fierce Urgency of Service2020-01-21T16:33:30-06:00

PVAMU Scientist’s Research Assesses Risks of Human Travel to Mars

Research done by a senior research scientist at Prairie View A&M University could have an impact on future human space travel to Mars. Dr. Megumi Hada recently received $738,654 from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to study the combined effects of simulated microgravity [or gravity in a spacecraft] and space radiation on human [...]

PVAMU Scientist’s Research Assesses Risks of Human Travel to Mars2019-12-18T10:34:44-06:00

PVAMU Student to Attend International Forum as Qatar Harvey Fund Scholar

The year 2019 is wrapping up to be a monumental and memorable one for Prairie View A&M University student Olivia Mackey. She is finishing final exams and preparing to head to the Middle Eastern country of Qatar as a Qatar Harvey Fund Scholar. “When I applied to be a Qatar Harvey Fund Scholar last semester, [...]

PVAMU Student to Attend International Forum as Qatar Harvey Fund Scholar2019-12-06T14:02:36-06:00

PVAMU Debate Students Place First in National Competition

Students from Prairie View A&M University won a national debate competition hosted by United Automobile Workers (UAW) and Ford Motor Company. PVAMU went up against Tennessee State University, University of Michigan - Flint, and Central Michigan University in "Debate in the D" on Nov. 22 in Detroit, Michigan.

PVAMU Debate Students Place First in National Competition2019-12-04T09:12:34-06:00