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PVAMUā€™s Consular Tour Program is forging international connections close to home

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (April 18, 2024) ā€“ Houston is home to nearly 100 consulates, the third-highest concentration of consular offices in the U.S. These diplomatic missions, smaller than embassies, primarily focus on assisting citizens of their home countries in the host country, promoting trade and tourism, and providing visa services. As with an embassy, when [...]

PVAMU receives new grant to help train students in computing to address social issues affecting rural communities

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (April 11, 2024) - Prairie View A&M University has received a Responsible Computing Challenge award from the Mozilla Foundation, aimed at developing ā€œcurricula that empowers students to think about the social and political context of computing.ā€ Mozilla, most widely known for developing the Firefox browser, has made making the internet a force [...]

PVAMUā€™s Panther Teaching Academy inducted into Chancellor’s Academy of Teacher Educators

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (April 9, 2024) ā€” In a triumphant celebration of academic excellence and dedication to shaping the future of education, the Panther Teaching Academy team at Prairie View A&M University enjoyed recognition for receiving the prestigious 2023-2024 Chancellor's Academy of Teacher Educators award at The Texas A&M University System Chancellor's Century Council banquet. [...]

How to watch the upcoming Solar Eclipse on ‘The Hill’

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (April 3, 2024) ā€“ Prairie View A&M Universityā€™s Marvin D. and June Samuel Brailsford College of Arts & Sciences will host a viewing of the rare celestial event in the form of a total solar eclipse on April 8. With the celestial stage set, the PVAMU campus may find itself just outside [...]

PVAMU’s Dr. Jeanelle Hope talks with KPRC-TV about syllabus created surrounding BeyoncĆ©ā€™s ā€˜Renaissanceā€™ album

Dr. Jeanelle Hope, Prairie View A&M University Director and Associate Professor of African American Studies, explains BeyoncĆ©ā€™s albumā€™s significance within Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

Houston Defender: PVAMU student Jaquavous Doucette to run for city council

Most college students, like most adults in general, are politically apathetic at best and aggressively apolitical at worst. Jaquavous Doucette, known by his friends at Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) as ā€œQuaa,ā€ is not like most college students ā€“ or most adults of any age, for that matter.

PVAMU becomes 33rd recipient of Toni Morrison Societyā€™s Bench by the Road

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (March 21, 2024) ā€“ In a beautiful celebration of history, courage and the arts, Prairie View A&M University unveiled the prestigious Bench by the Road monument in a rousing program on Tuesday, March 19, 2024, in the Opal Johnson Smith Auditorium. The event marked the beginning of Inauguration Week for PVAMUā€™s ninth [...]

First-Gen Forward: Dina Tekle is closing gaps in medical research, women in STEM

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (March 18, 2024) ā€“ ā€œPrairie View Produces Productive Peopleā€ is how the adage goes. Dina Tekle, a senior biology student at Prairie View A&M set to graduate this spring, is redefining it: being a woman in medical research and working to close gaps in knowledge in the understanding of diseases and illness. [...]

VIDEO: An Interview with PVAMU’s 2023-2024 Writer-in-Residence, Attica Locke

Attica Locke is Prairie View A&M University's 2023-2024 Writer-in-Residence for the Toni Morrison Writing Program. Locke is a distinguished American fiction author and acclaimed writer-producer for television and film. In this video, she discusses her passion for storytelling, writing styles, how to write, and her special connections to PVAMU.