Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) professor Shahedur Rahman, from the Department of Accounting, Finance, and MIS in the College of Business, visited Chittagong Independent University (CIU) in Bangladesh. The July 2018 visit was at the invitation of Dr. Mahfuzul H. Chowdhury, Vice Chancellor of the University to discuss the areas that CIU’s School of Business [...]
Prairie View A & M University has a long and storied tradition of “producing students who are productive citizens.” On the ground level, this process takes place in the classroom, through developing mentor/mentee relationships with students, and providing students with opportunities to apply the knowledge attained in class to real-life situations. Dr. Marco Robinson, Assistant [...]
Since 2010, Texas has seen more rural hospitals close than has any other state, leaving huge gaps in health care. In Spring 2016, the Texas A&M Rural and Community Health Institute (ARCHI), working with the Episcopal Health Foundation, issued a report titled What's Next? Practical Suggestions for Rural Communities Facing a Hospital Closure. The idea [...]
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.
Ram Ray, Research Scientist from the Cooperative Agricultural Research Center, recently visited Gujarat, India to share his irrigation expertise with farmers, agricultural extension specialists, and research scientists of the Kutch District.
Oil and gas is hardly the first industry that springs to mind when one mentions cloud computing. The technology that has been expanding at a snail's pace, disrupting business models and enabling innovation across industry boards, has not really met with a lot of enthusiasm in the energy industry—at least not yet. But this may [...]
Every year Americans suffer from respiratory complications during the spring and summer seasons. Some may be surprised, the cause of these complications may originate in Africa. An exceptionally large plume of dust from Africa’s Sahara and Sahelian Deserts blows across the Atlantic Ocean and will make its way to Texas. For over a decade, a group of [...]
If you watch a group of boys playing outside, chances are, at some point, one boy is going to leap on top of another boy. There will be a lot of yelling and ferocious roars, but also lots of grins. Other boys will try to pull the first boy off or grab on, too, and [...]
“Shall We Play A Game?” is one of the most heart-pounding lines in the 1983 movie WarGames. – David Lightman, played by Matthew Broderick was a young computer whiz kid who accidentally connects into a top-secret super-computer named War Operation Planned Response (WOPR), pronounced ‘whopper’. WOPR which has complete control over the U.S. nuclear arsenal [...]
New CAHS Leadership Coming Soon…Gerard D’Souza The College of Agriculture and Human Sciences (CAHS) new dean and director of land-grant programs, Gerard D’Souza, officially assumes leadership on July 1st. The employees and students readily anticipate Gerard to help lead the College to its next stage of growth. Gerard brings an astounding amount of experience from [...]
