PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (April 12, 2024) - Prairie View A&M University’s PV Nation voted tirelessly for five weeks for The Home Depot’s Retool Your School contest, emerging in sixth place with a $50,000 prize! The award money will go towards improvements to the University’s student park. Nearly $3 million in grants for campus enhancements were [...]
Ivy Walls '16 is planting seeds of change for her community — literally! She opens up about working on her five-acre farm called Ivy Leaf Farms to help provide food for her food-desert community in Texas that had just one grocery store.
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (April 8, 2024) - “To live in color means to move through moments, challenges, decisions and goals with a childlike presence.” That was the backdrop for Prairie View A&M University’s fourth TED talk, “Living in Color,” hosted on Feb. 28. TEDxPVAMU debuted on PVAMU’s YouTube channel today, as well as [...]
New Spring ISD Athletic Director Derrell Oliver took an unconventional career path before becoming the first African American in district history to hold the position.
It took two founders and eight seeds to create a transformative experience for generations of excellence to come. This is Prairie View A&M University.
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (March 11, 2024) – March is not just another month for Prairie View A&M University; it's a time to celebrate heritage, pride and the enduring legacy of HBCUs nationwide. As part of the national "I Love My HBCU" campaign established by the Thurgood Marshall College Fund in 2014, PVAMU joins the annual [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (March 5, 2024) – Prairie View A&M University is proud to announce The Inaugural Women in Leadership Conference 2024, scheduled to take place during Women's History Month, March 6-7. Hosted by the Roy G. Perry College of Engineering, the conference, titled "Women Leading the Way: Imagine the Possibilities," is set to be [...]
Dean of Prairie View A&M University's School of Architecture, Dr. Ikhlas Sabouni, comments on Prairie View A&M University's role nationally to educate and prepare African American students for careers in architecture and related fields.
The Journal of Adolescent Health says one of the greatest barriers for students of color accessing mental health services on college campuses is the lack of culturally diverse counselors, psychologists and psychiatrists. According to the Healthy Minds survey published in 2023, more than 60% of college students met the criteria for at least one mental [...]
Poems by Maya Angelou. Classics by James Baldwin and Toni Morrison. Books about slavery, Black jazz artists and dance programs at historically Black Colleges and universities. Librarian Elizabeth Brumfield thought carefully about each title before she placed them on Prairie View A&M University’s 2024 Black History Month reading list. She wanted something for everyone, and she wound [...]
