PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (December 15, 2021) - Prairie View A&M University alumna Ilene Robbins ’21 knew it was her destiny to become a nurse. From a young age, she watched nurses care for her aunt and knew she wanted to enter the healing profession. The road to graduation ended up being a far tougher path [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (December 11, 2021) - The sky is the limit for 642 students who walked across the stage at PVAMU’s 26th Fall Commencement Convocation this Saturday, which featured award-winning actress, playwright, and scholar Anna Deavere Smith as speaker. This number of graduating students includes four doctoral, 113 master’s and 525 bachelor’s candidates, which [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (December 8, 2021) – While working through the rigors of a college degree, majors often shift, and students’ career goals can change as often as the name of their favorite artist. But not Jaelyn Lee, a Sigma Theta Tau Honor Society member at Prairie View A&M University. She knew from the start [...]
https://youtu.be/7uh1I2aFTbU PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (October 13, 2021) - Allyssa L. Harris, RN, Ph.D., WHNP-BC, Prairie View A&M University’s new dean of the College of Nursing, says she always “wanted to be someone helping someone else.” As of this month, she’s landed in a new role at PVAMU that will, once again, allow her to [...]
HOUSTON (October 1, 2021) - On Friday, Prairie View A&M University welcomed Allyssa L. Harris, the new dean of the College of Nursing. Dr. Harris brings 27 years of professional clinical practice and higher education teaching, research, and administrative experience to her new role.
PVAMU Summer 2021 graduate candidates from left to right: Simone Jarmon, KiMaja Clay, Marsja Stearnes and Mya Matthews PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (August 12, 2021) – Prairie View A&M University’s (PVAMU) 110th Summer Commencement Convocation will be held August 14, 2021, at the William “Billy” J. Nicks, Sr. Building. This summer, PVAMU expects to [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (August 12, 2021) - Less than a year after its formal launch, the Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) Healthy Houston Initiative (HHI) has unveiled its new mobile kitchen unit that will soon travel around the Houston area serving various communities. The mobile kitchen made its debut during a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the [...]
I am very pleased to announce that Allyssa L. Harris RN, PhD, WHNP-BC, has been hired as Dean of Nursing. She will begin on October 1, 2021. Dr. Harris brings to her new role 27 years of professional clinical practice and higher education teaching, research and administrative experience. Most recently, she was Department Chair and [...]
Since the launch of Prairie View A&M University’s (PVAMU) Healthy Houston Initiative (HHI) last May, the initiative has served Houston’s limited resource communities by providing educational workshops that focus on health, wellness, finance, nutrition, and agriculture. All of which promote long-term healthy lifestyle changes and behaviors.
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (May 24, 2021) - This spring, the Texas Juvenile Crime Prevention Center at Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) hosted its first Conference for Interdisciplinary Student Research (CISR). Held virtually in place of what would have been the 16th Annual Research Symposium, CISR brought together students from various disciplines at PVAMU under the [...]
