PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas - 2021 has been a remarkable one for Prairie View A&M University, despite the continuous fight against COVID-19. PVAMU has continued to stick to its core values of achieving excellence, teaching, research and service. The university had many outstanding moments, from launches, historic donations, new initiatives, faces, buildings and championships. As we [...]
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 7, 2021) - Garnett Johnson, who is on the verge of earning her master’s degree in community development from Prairie View A&M University, has been appointed assistant director of community and economic development for the city of Marshall, Texas. Johnson’s full-time role began just as she was entering her final month [...]
As we come close to the end of the fall 2021 semester, I want to acknowledge your resilience, courage, and fortitude. We realize this semester was not easy as we continue to keep one another healthy and safe during a global pandemic. To the students who will be graduating on December 11th, congratulations on your well-deserved accomplishment. [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (October 16, 2021) - Prairie View A&M University celebrated this year’s World Food Day by hosting a hybrid interactive program with esteemed guests and PVAMU students highlighting the global nutrition crisis. Hosted by the College of Agriculture and Human Sciences (CAHS), the event featured representatives from the United States Department of Agriculture, [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (October 15, 2021) - Prairie View A&M University has launched an incentive program for those who have been vaccinated against COVID-19. Students, faculty and staff are eligible to receive one of several prizes in a drawing that will be held this December. "Students and employees should participate in this program because it [...]
https://youtu.be/G5-hA8Dt4pQ PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (September 17, 2021) - Prairie View A&M University’s (PVAMU) College of Business (COB) hosted an engaging discussion with Robert Kaplan, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, and PVAMU President Ruth J. Simmons last Thursday, September 9. The hour-long virtual conversation consisted of an informal interview, with [...]
In March 2021, US Black Engineer & Information Technology (USBE) magazine reached out to three engineering deans at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). Dr. Robin N. Coger, Dr. Joyce Shirazi, and Dr. Pamela Holland Obiomon reflect on what 2020 was like for them as academic leaders, how their colleges adapted during the pandemic, what [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (August 23, 2021) - Monday, August 23, begins a brand new academic school year at Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU), and for the first time in over a year, its students will return fully to face-to-face instruction. While only a small percentage of coursework will be offered in hybrid and online modalities, [...]
