“Going to Africa changed my life. It is impossible to go to that continent, experience the culture, meet the people, and leave as the same person.” Those are thoughts from Asia Williams, a junior biology major from Shreveport, Louisiana, who spent her summer in Mombasa, Kenya working a medical internship. “While in Kenya, I conducted [...]
Prairie View A&M University’s Director of Bands, Dr. Timmey Zachery, always has a group of students around him. They call him “Dr. Z.” “The nature of my work motivates you to be the best. It is all about the students,” said Zachery. “If this were Star Wars, I would be Yoda, simply, leading my students [...]
Prairie View A&M University’s Army ROTC Program has flourished in recent years, and most of its success is due to Lieutenant Colonel Reginald Williams. Williams joined PVAMU back in 2016 as a department head and a professor of Military Science. “I’ve been in the Army for 19 years, and I have never seen such an [...]
On May 11, Prairie View A&M University conducted a Joint Commissioning Ceremony for its Army ROTC and Navy ROTC programs. “With our guest speaker, Navy Veteran and former mayor of Prairie View, Frank D. Jackson, we honored the hard work, dedication, resilience, and duty of cadets turned officers,” said Lieutenant Colonel Reginald Williams, department head [...]
On Memorial Day, six Marching Storm members presented as part of the 369th Experience band in New York. PVAMU’s David Otinwa, David Burrows, Shawn Smith, Aaron Cosse, Christopher Quiroz, and Jacob Paul Tatum and dozens of other HBCU student musicians are a part of the band, which commemorates the 100th Anniversary of the WWI Regiment [...]
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 [...]
The South African Medico-Legal Association (SAMLA) invited Dr. Mark Tschaepe, assistant professor of Philosophy at Prairie View A&M University, to Johannesburg, South Africa to give a presentation that was simulcast to five cities across the country. “I was invited by SAMLA, in partnership with the University of Cape Town, to teach a module within their [...]
Dr. Danny Kelley, dean of Prairie View A&M University’s Marvin D. and June Samuel Brailsford College of Arts and Sciences, performed in recital solo and chamber music at New York’s Steinway Hall, April 26. The program consisted of works composed by Johannes Brahms (Piano Pieces, Opus 118, and the F Minor Piano Quintet, Opus 34). [...]
Prairie View A&M University’s Army ROTC program annually recognizes the achievements of the Cadets within the program. This year, the program recognized 30 Cadets for their body of work at its ceremony on April 5. Organizations such as Veterans of Foreign Wars, USAA, and AUSA, to name a few, sponsored awards given to the Cadets. [...]
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 [...]
