Respectful political dialogue between engaged citizens is a cornerstone characteristic of a healthy democracy. How can faculty establish a classroom culture encouraging constructive and inclusive political discussion around the 2024 U.S. election and other common political science themes?
For Prairie View A&M University Brown Endowed Chair of Architecture Bill Price, architecture is where people and nature meet. “As an architectural researcher, I see architecture as the nexus between the known and the unknown,” he said. “This interdisciplinary field allows me to investigate the relationship between nature and the built environment.” Growing up [...]
Long before ChatGPT, there was AlexNet – the deep-learning solution named after its creator, Alex Krizhevsky. It won the ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge 2012 and ensnared Lijun Qian, Ph.D., sparking his interest in the emerging field. Now, Dr. Qian is the AT&T endowed professor of electrical and computer engineering at Prairie View [...]
The rains decided the fates of farmers in the small rural village in India where Prairie View A&M University’s Honeywell Endowed Professor Raghava Kommalapati, Ph.D., PE, BCEE, F. ASCE, grew up. As a young boy in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh in India, where farming was the main livelihood, Dr. Kommalapati saw firsthand [...]
As an Endowed Professor of Political Science at Prairie View A&M University, Melanye Price ‘95, Ph.D., still remembers walking to Sunnyside Park in Houston with her mom as a child to watch her vote. She and her twin sister would get to go into the booth and even pull the little lever. “I was [...]
Fred A. Bonner II, Ed.D., endowed chair in educational leadership in the Whitlowe R. Green College of Education at Prairie View A&M University, knows his success story as a Black man in America is a rare one. So, the Jefferson, Texas native published “Academically Gifted African American Male College Students” to chronicle his journey. [...]
Munir Quddus, Ph.D., was in sixth grade when the Bangladesh Liberation War broke out in 1971, a nine-month civil war between West Pakistan (now Pakistan) and East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). It marked a time of brutal violence and nationwide upheaval that turned his family’s home into a war zone as they sought shelter under their [...]
Prairie View A&M University Endowed Professor of Fine Arts Danny R. Kelley ’65, D.M.A., started playing the piano at, believe it or not, age 2 and has not since stopped. Without any formal training, the young Dr. Kelley would play tunes he heard on the radio on the piano, which his parents bought for his [...]
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 family’s cows and lambs, irrigating their crops, and helping out at his father’s convenience store, there was no time for playing. However, the [...]
Prairie View A&M University Texas Instruments Endowed Professor John Attia, Ph.D., has taught for 43 years. Relatively new to the role of an endowed professorship at PVAMU, the professor of electrical and computer engineering in the Roy G. Perry College of Engineering has been an educator since 1980 and has no plans to stop. [...]
