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Ali Fares

Prairie View A&M University Professor Ali Fares, Ph.D., had a busy childhood growing up in a small village in Tunisia just ten miles from the Mediterranean coast. Between looking after the familyā€™s cows and lambs, irrigating their crops, and helping out at his fatherā€™s convenience store, there was no time for playing. However, the [...]

New research project at PVAMU hones in on livestock management, beef industry best practices

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (July 20, 2023) - To boost recruitment efforts and student interest in livestock production and management, researchers from Prairie View A&M University and Texas A&M University are partnering on a project that will offer an ā€œExperiential Approach to Beef Cattle Production Feedlots for Undergraduate Students.ā€ The United States Department of Agricultureā€™s National [...]

Opinion| The 2023 Atlantic Hurricane Season is predicted to be near-normal, but here is why that is not entirely good news.

Every year, the Northern Hemisphere region of the Atlantic Ocean embraces the annual hurricane season that officially starts on June 1 and ends on November 30. This period has been adopted by convention; itā€™s when most tropical cyclogenesis occurs in the Atlantic. Though the formation of subtropical or tropical cyclones is possible at any time [...]

Unlocking the Future of Public Health: PVAMU leads Texas students in informatics boot camp

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (July 6, 2023) ā€“ Prairie View A&M University students are learning, alongside other students from institutions across Texas, how to make public health information technology more fair, inclusive and equitable. The ultimate goal of public health information technology, also known as public health informatics, is to use information, computer science and technology [...]

PVAMU faculty, staff honored at ā€˜Reach for Excellenceā€™ 2023 awards luncheon

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (May 19, 2023) ā€“ Prairie View A&M University recently honored those who bring excellence to the University. The "Reach for Excellence" Faculty and Staff Awards Recognition Luncheon on May 2 honored more than a dozen exceptional PVAMU faculty and staff. ā€œIā€™m very proud of the accomplishments and numerous contributions these individuals have [...]

Preparing for the Future: PVAMU expands health education with new school

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (May 10, 2023) - Prairie View A&M University is no stranger to the field of health. Just in the past year, the University celebrated the 100th anniversary of the first class to graduate from its College of Nursing. For nearly a decade, the Undergraduate Medical AcademyĀ has emphasized the integration of leadership development [...]

April 15 is officially Wellness in Houston Day

HOUSTON ā€“ The City of Houston issued a Proclamation stating that April 15thĀ will hereby be known as Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) Wellness in Houston Day! PVAMUā€™s Wellness in Houston is having a positive impact within communities and will continue to provide first-rate resources and support to the Greater Houston area as we tackle health [...]

In advance of Earth Day, PVAMUā€™s first-ever Green Symposium celebrates our shared planet

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (April 20, 2023) - There are many reasons to attend Prairie View A&M Universityā€™s inaugural Green Symposium, hosted by the Honors Program. Among them are to learn more about why issues related to sustainability are so crucial to Historically Black Colleges and Universities. PVAMUā€™s student body, as well as Prairie View residents, [...]

ABC13 interviews PVAMU endowed professor Ali Fares on this year’s crop outlook

PRAIRIE VIEW,Ā Texas ā€“ Houstonā€™s ABC13 visited Prairie View A&M Universityā€™s College of Agriculture and Human Sciences to interview Endowed Professor Ali Fares, Ph.D.Ā  Fares and Reporter Erica Simon discussed the crop growth outlook for the 2023 harvesting year.Ā 

PVAMU, Texas A&M announce faculty winners of $600,000 joint PRISE research grants for 2023

Credit: Pressmaster/Shutterstock.com PRAIRIE VIEW and BRYAN-COLLEGE STATION, Texas (April 11, 2023)Ā­ Ā­- Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) and Texas A&M University (Texas A&M) are awarding $600,000 to 15 teams of PVAMU-Texas A&M faculty investigators who belong to the third cohort under the 2023 Panther Research and Innovation for Scholarly Excellence (PRISE) grant program. [...]