PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas - Two-thousand and twenty-two – what a year for Prairie View A&M University! As 2023 begins, let’s look at the most notable items accomplished on “The Hill” over the last 365 days. 1. PVAMU achieved the prestigious Carnegie R2 Classification. PVAMU kicked off 2022 with a bang. The University attained [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (Dec. 16, 2022) - The HistoryMakers, the nation’s largest African American video oral history archive, has chosen Prairie View A&M University junior Delicia Drain as one of its 2022-2023 Student Ambassadors. The program recruited 14 Student Ambassadors, representing 11 colleges and universities across the country. As one of the faces of the [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas – Graduating Prairie View A&M University senior Marie Christi Boyd, who goes by her middle name, has two passions in life: politics and poetry. Poetry “softens” the harsh realities of politics, says the 25-year-old from Lake Charles, Louisiana, who graduates this December with a bachelor’s degree in political science. Boyd, who transferred [...]
Magesh Rajan, Ph.D., P.E., MBA, Vice President of Research & Innovation at Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU), has been elected to the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) Council on Research (COR) Executive Committee.
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (Nov. 21, 2022) – Edom Kidane and Grace Brooks hope their efforts will train and raise the next generation of Black girls they call beautiful, unique and “capable of anything.” Edom Kidane The two Prairie View A&M University students were recently selected as 2022-2023 Albert Schweitzer Junior Fellows. They are [...]
Antoinette R. Gant '94 PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (Oct. 28, 2022) – Antoinette R. Gant '94 was promoted to the rank of brigadier general today in a traditional military ceremony at her alma mater, Prairie View A&M University. Vice Chief of Staff of the Army, Gen. Randy George, conducted the promotion ceremony. Brig. Gen. [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (Oct. 12, 2022) – Most people seek to excel in their careers. But it’s not very often that one achieves international recognition for their efforts. Kimberly Sanders, Ed.D. Enter Kimberly Sanders, Ed.D., assistant vice president for Strategic Enrollment Initiatives at Prairie View A&M University, who is now a member of [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (Oct. 7, 2022) – Eight Prairie View A&M University students were among dozens from 56 Historically Black Colleges and Universities selected to attend the National HBCU Week Conference in Washington. The annual conference is organized by the White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity through Historically Black Colleges [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (August 16, 2022) – Having a diverse pipeline of well-trained STEM students ready to enter Ph.D. programs and, ultimately, the STEM workforce just got easier, thanks to a $1,712,952 National Institutes of Health/National Institute of General Medical Sciences funding award. While the solution is not simple, the principal investigator of the new [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (August 16, 2022) - Christiane Lessa has been named the new head coach of the Prairie View A&M University women's soccer team. "I am excited that coach Lessa has accepted the position as the head women's soccer coach here at PVAMU," said Director of Athletics Donald R. Reed. "She's an outstanding coach [...]
