PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (August 9, 2022) – With technology increasing at an ever-expansive rate, tech giants like Google are tapping into the next generation’s workforce to help shape the coders and developers of the future. Four Prairie View A&M University students attended the Google Tech Exchange program this spring, turning high-tech dreams into reality for [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (June 2, 2022) – Seeking an alternative to FEMA trailers after the next climate catastrophe visits Houston’s historically segregated neighborhoods, students in the School of Architecture at Prairie View A&M University designed a single-family accessory dwelling unit that was selected as a winner in the student category of the City of Houston [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (May 27, 2022) – While many students across the U.S. dealt with drought conditions and winter blizzards this spring semester, Prairie View A&M University senior Shaylan Young ‘22 (now a graduate) was dipping her toes in the sand while experiencing a different culture as a study abroad student in Costa Rica. “I’ve [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (May 18, 2022) - For the second year in a row, Boeing will be honoring over a dozen HBCUs, including Prairie View A&M University, during its CST-100 Starliner’s second Orbital Flight Test on May 19. Flags from select historically black colleges and universities, and a few additional universities, are part of the [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (May 13, 2022) - There’s not much senior chemical engineering student Taylon Owens can’t do. Of course, if you ask him, his modesty shines through. He credits his soon-to-be alma mater Prairie View A&M University with providing support and a launching place for what’s sure to be a stellar career for a [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (May 12. 2022) - Prairie View A&M University senior Terrence McCaskey, Jr., has solid advice for students entering their college career at Texas’s most renowned HBCU: “Please network even if you’re introverted—trust me, I am too,” said McCaskey, a double major in the School of Architecture at PVAMU. “Networking can be the [...]
Washington, D.C. (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Princeton University is partnering with UNCF (United Negro College Fund) and five historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) to launch a groundbreaking program designed to enable research collaborations between Princeton faculty and their peers at HBCUs.
The climate change debate is real these days at different levels and scales. It is essential to remind ourselves why we continue discussing it. The simple reason is that a changing climate has impacted how we work, how we live, how we play, and how we do business; it is impacting all aspects of our [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (April 20, 2022) – Nadia Harris stands behind a table in the parking lot of the Welcome Center at Prairie View A&M University dressed in crisp purple and white scrubs and in PPE that consists of a face mask, face shield and shoe covers—a familiar sight these days. Nadia Harris, Senior, [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas - For Melanye Price, Ph.D., it has been fulfilling to do the work accomplished in the first phase of the grant from the Mellon Foundation to the Ruth J. Simmons Center for Race and Justice. When the Foundation presented the opportunity to conceive a second phase of the project, it was nothing short of [...]
