PVAMU becomes first HBCU to lead a national University Transportation Center
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas - The U.S. Department of Transportation notified the Texas Congressional Delegation that Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) was selected to lead a historic national-tier University Transportation Center (UTC). Joined by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI), Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES), and Texas A&M University, PVAMU will lead the National Center [...]
African American History Month
Faculty, staff and students of Prairie View A&M University have been history-makers since the university’s humble beginnings in 1876. As the nation commemorates African American History Month this February, PVAMU will host various events and exhibits following the theme of “African American Artists, Musicians, and/or Writers: Stimulating, Agitating and Perpetuating Social Justice.” Here’s [...]
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President Simmons addresses University of Michigan winter graduates GalleryPresident Simmons addresses University of Michigan winter graduates
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President Simmons addresses University of Michigan winter graduates
Commencement speaker Ruth Simmons cautioned University of Michigan winter 2021 graduates against being quick to shed the high expectations and standards set for them as students.
Message from the President in honor of our veterans
Today, as we honor our veterans and reflect on their contributions to this great nation, we are immensely grateful for their service, dedication, and valor. Their bold step forward to answer the call to serve and defend our nation and unselfishly place their lives on the line for the freedoms of all Americans is truly [...]
‘Not ivory towers’: HBCU activist-in-residence nurtures hope, activism
After George Floyd’s murder, Ruth J. Simmons, president of Prairie View A&M University in Texas, made a commitment to students to advance their understanding of discrimination in the United States. That pledge included the creation of a Center for Race and Justice – which opened in March – and a new post for an activist-in-residence, [...]
University of the Incarnate Word: Black History Month : A Q&A with Dr. Doshie Piper
Exploring Dr. Piper's work, experiences and vision of a more just system and society. February 4, 2021 - As we celebrate Black History Month and the Black leaders, change makers and innovators who impacted the course of our nation’s history, we also celebrate the Black voices within our own UIW community – voices like that [...]
Golf Digest: Cameron Champ has found a smart way to help small businesses while celebrating Black History Month
02/04/2021 - Cameron Champ is ordinarily cool, reserved and polite. But in the summer of 2020, he was outraged. In March of that year, Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old Black medical worker, was shot and killed by white, plainclothes Louisville police officers in a bungled raid on her apartment. Five months later, a white Kenosha, Wis., [...]
KTRK-TV/ABC13 – Localish: Ivy Leaf Farms: Eliminating food deserts one at a time
02/08/2021 - Ivy Walls always loved gardening and still remembers asking her parents to grow vegetables growing up. But when she graduated from Prairie View A&M [University] with a biology degree, she went to work for the CDC as an infection preventionist. She later moved to one of the medical systems in Houston, and moved [...]
KXAS-TV/NBCDFW: Black History Month: North Texas
02/08/2021 - Black History Month is a celebration of Black culture, art and historical accomplishments of Black Americans. Many may not know its origins but according to Darryl Michael Scott, Professor of History at Howard University and Vice President of Program for Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASALH,) the concept of [...]