The 2019 African American Studies Summer Institute was held at Prairie View A&M University from May 28-31. Designed as an opportunity to allow faculty from throughout the College of Arts and Sciences to learn best practices for incorporating African American Studies into the curriculum, the days featured speakers in the morning and workshops in the [...]
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC, served as the venue for a memorable night celebrating the achievements of PVAMU graduates from across the nation. Prairie View A&M University’s alumni reception, presided over by President Ruth J. Simmons, was held on Saturday, June 15th. The [...]
Dr. Derek Wilson is a man on a mission: to improve mental health for people of African descent. “We need to instill in every minority child, particularly Black children that they come from somewhere. They have a rich history of success, triumph, and excellence for which they can still represent. Our young people in this [...]
The chambers in city hall were full of joy and gratitude as President Ruth J. Simmons was on hand to receive a proclamation celebrating her storied career in higher education and involvement in the Greater Houston community.“It’s an honor to be recognized in the city that helped you develop and grow – the city that [...]
Can you even imagine a world without Beyonce? It’s a bleak prospect that would’ve been reality were it not for Mathew Knowles—yes, that’s one “T,” he makes sure to remind us. Father and former manager to world-renowned superstar Bey and Grammy-winning chanteuse Solange, Knowles is largely known as the man behind the music—beginning, of course, with Destiny’s Child—a [...]
A conversation with Dr. Richard Griffin can give you a whole new way of thinking about dust, and not the kind you sweep and remove from homes, apartments and offices. Specifically, Dr. Griffin studies the red dust of West Africa that can carry toxins while travel-ing right across the Atlantic Ocean in the high winds [...]
Despite the dreary weather, the atmosphere inside the Baby Dome this past Saturday was as bright as the future of PVAMU's class of 2019. Eight hundred and forty-one promising new graduates received their diplomas during the Spring Commencement ceremony. A surprise came during the event when the president instructed the graduates to look under [...]
This summer, Ines Frazier, a second-year agriculture major and chemistry minor at Prairie View A&M University, will participate in Switzerland’s School for International Training’s (SIT) Study Abroad Program for Food Security and Nutrition. The PVAMU Honors Program student will spend six weeks, from June 3-July 15, examining food security, nutrition, sustainable agriculture, genetically modified organisms [...]
It was announced on Earth Day (April 22) that the Prairie View A&M University School of Architecture Race to Zero team has won the prestigious American Institute of Architects (AIA) Committee on the Environment (COTE) Top Ten for Students Competition for their project, The Fly Flat. The 2018-2019 COTE Top Ten for Students Competition: Innovation [...]
The National Council of Jewish Women, Greater Houston Section gathered at Brookdale, Galleria on April 28, to honor the 2019 Lee K. Feine Scholarship winner and to hear University of Houston Law Center (UHLC) Dean and Professor Leonard M. Baynes discuss the Prelaw Pipeline Program. This special program helps students from underrepresented populations enter law [...]
