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Two at PVAMU honored for ā€˜significant contributions’ to their fields, state of Texas

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (Nov. 27, 2024) – Two members of Prairie View A&M University have been honored by The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents. Ali Fares, Ph.D. The board, which designated 18 faculty members and 13 professionals within the A&M System as Regents Professors and Regents Fellows for their exemplary performance [...]

PVAMU junior biology major excels in cutting-edge medical research

Sultana (l) and Cole (r) PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (Nov. 22, 2024) – Anisa Cole, a junior biology major at Prairie View A&M University, is breaking new ground in medical research. Through the University’s Faculty Research and Innovation for Scholarly Excellence (RISE) Program, she is working alongside Dr. Naznin Sultana, a clinical associate professor, [...]

PVAMU researcher among top global scholars in engineering, environmental science

Ali Fares, Ph.D. PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (Nov. 20, 2024) - Dr. Ali Fares, an endowed professor of water security at Prairie View A&M University, is ranked among the top global scholars in engineering and environmental science, according to ScholarGPS, an analytics site that tracks and ranks researchers and institutions worldwide. Based on ScholarGPS [...]

PVAMU’s new teacher residency program to boost teacher diversity, transform under-resourced classrooms

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (Nov. 14, 2024) - Prairie View A&M University is launching an ambitious teacher residency initiative to address a critical need: providing quality educators in hard-to-staff schools while increasing teacher diversity. Through the Panther Teacher Education Residency Model (pantherTERM), PVAMU is set to prepare a new wave of educators ready to make a [...]

PVAMU leads inaugural national infrastructure event

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (Nov. 11, 2024) – Prairie View A&M University is excited to announce the first-ever Virtual National Center for Infrastructure Transformation (NCIT) Colloquium, set to take place November 12-14. This first-of-its-kind event will bring together leaders, researchers, and stakeholders from across the infrastructure field to explore NCIT’s groundbreaking research and programs. PVAMU leads [...]

PVAMU awarded $8 million for cutting-edge AI, big data research project

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (Oct. 30, 2024) - The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded Prairie View A&M University an $8 million grant for a new research project focused on advanced data analysis and artificial intelligence. The project, titled ā€œCREDIT+: Advancing Data Analysis for Mission-Critical Applications in the Era of Artificial Intelligence,ā€ is led by Dr. [...]

Looking into the Face of Legacy

Historically Black Colleges and Universities have long been the resilient keepers of history and culture, shaping generations of Black scholars since the founding of the Institute for Colored Youth in Cheyney, Pennsylvania, in 1837. These institutions have been beacons of hope and opportunity, providing a space where Black students could pursue higher education when few [...]

Prairie View A&M, Texas A&M awarded $2.9 million for biomedical research training program

A multidisciplinary team fromĀ Prairie View A&M UniversityĀ (PVAMU) andĀ Texas A&M UniversityĀ recently received funding from theĀ National Institutes of HealthĀ (NIH) to administer an Institutional Research and Academic Career Development program (IRACDA). The $2.9 million IRACDA award is intended to support collaboration between research-intensive colleges and universities and historically mission-driven institutions that educate underrepresented groups. IRACDA programs train biomedical [...]

PVAMU awarded $1.2M grant to expand, diversify educational diagnosticians in Texas

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (Oct. 16, 2024) - Prairie View A&M University has been awarded a $1,243,372 grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Special Education Programs to launch Project iSPREAD-ED: Innovative and Sustainable Practices for Recruiting, Educating, and Diversifying Educational Diagnosticians. The initiative is aimed at increasing the number of highly qualified, culturally [...]