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PVAMU Reference Librarian shares ways to find your family history for free

Do you want to find your family roots for free? Prairie View A&M University's Reference Librarian Kimberly Gay shows you how! Gay discusses with Houston's CW39 the benefits of discovering ancestral stories, during a university event "Find Your Roots! Family Pedigree Research."

2019-02-22T12:41:44-06:00February 22, 2019|Latest News, News|

PVAMU Aids in Construction of Community Greenhouse, Garden for Prairie View

Students at H.T. Jones Elementary in Prairie View returned from their holiday break to a massive surprise at their school. Community leaders broke ground on a new greenhouse and community garden on the schoolā€™s playground. The collaboration known as the NextGEN (gardening, education, nutrition) Project, a partnership between Jones Elementary, the City of Prairie View [...]

2019-12-17T11:37:10-06:00February 20, 2019|College of Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources|

A Special Message from the VP of Student Affairs

On February 18th, following my letter outlining changes in housing, hundreds of students attended an open forum to discuss those changes. In my view, thanks to the openness and candor of those who attended, we had an engaging and passionate discussion about a number of the challenges that students continue to face in housing availability; [...]

2019-12-17T11:37:10-06:00February 20, 2019|Latest News, Student Affairs|

PVAMU Alumnus secures the legacy of the Buffalo Soldier

Prairie View A&M University alumnus Capt. Paul J. Matthews '68, founder and executive director of the Buffalo Soldiers National Museum made his dream a reality. "Seven years (after its creation), we have moved into a historic building," said Matthews, a veteran of the Vietnam War. The museum was apart of a [...]

2019-12-17T11:37:10-06:00February 18, 2019|Alumni News|

PVAMU alumna Yolanda Ford ’08 makes history in mayoral election

In a historic win, PVAMU alumna Yolanda Ford was elected as Missouri City's next mayor December 2018. The council member went on to unseat long-time incumbent Mayor Allen Owen in a runoff election, in Missouri City. Ford's victory marks the first time a woman or an African-American had been elected to lead the Fort Bend [...]

2019-02-18T11:27:29-06:00February 18, 2019|Alumni News|

PVAMU alumna,Ā Erica Hughes ’03 and ’06 elected Harris County court judge

Harris Countyā€™s of the Harris County Criminal Court at Law #3, is none other than Prairie View A&M University alumna,Ā Erica Hughes '03 and '06. Erica Hughes has always had a passion to serve others and her community. She knew from a young age that she wanted to be an attorney and judge. There are no [...]

2019-12-17T11:37:10-06:00February 18, 2019|Alumni News|

Architecture Professor to use AIA Grant to help portion of Houstonā€™s aging population

The American Institute of Architectsā€™ Design for Aging Knowledge Community selected Assistant Professor Jessica April Ward in Prairie View A&M Universityā€™s School of Architecture as a 2019-2020 AIA Design for Aging Fellow. As a fellow, Ward will use a $10,000 grant to further research being done in PVAMUā€™s Regenerative Design Studio course ā€“ one of [...]

2019-12-17T11:37:10-06:00February 15, 2019|Academic Insights, Latest News, Service|

PVAMU alumnus featured on 60 Minutes for initiatives in Nigeria

In April 2014, 276 girls were kidnapped from the school they were attending in Chibok, a town in Borno State, Nigeria.Ā  Alumnus Reginald T. Braggs ā€™90, who serves as the Assistant Vice President for Foundation Programs at the American University of Nigeria (AUN), was given the enormous task of developing a program that would educateĀ the [...]

2019-12-17T11:37:10-06:00February 15, 2019|Alumni News|

PVAMU alumna secures a job at IBM after completing an internship

Alexa Jackson, a recent alumna who graduated from PVAMU December 2018, has secured a job at IBM in Atlanta after working as an intern in the Watson Customer Engagement department as a digital development representative last summer. Jackson, who graduated with her bachelorā€™s degree in business administration with a minor in economics, will be working [...]

2019-12-17T11:37:10-06:00February 14, 2019|Alumni News|

Alumni Use Decades of Industry Experience to Teach Younger Generations

Two Prairie View A&M University alumni are making an impact in PVAMUā€™s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Horace St. Julian (ā€™71) and Vewiser ā€œVJā€ Turner (ā€™80) are adjunct instructors who came out of retirement to teach. St. Julian has over four decades of experience from working at companies like AT&T, IBM, Cooper Industries, and [...]

2019-03-12T10:35:48-05:00February 14, 2019|Alumni News|