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PVAMU receives grant to establish Air Panther NextGen Network as part of Biden-Harris ‘Internet for All’ initiative

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas - Thanks to the internet, just about everything is at our fingertipsā€”information, opportunities and connections. But what if you canā€™t access the internet? Thatā€™s where the Biden-Harris Administrationā€™s Internet for All initiative steps in. Its goal is to bring high-speed internet to everyone in America. Earlier this year, the National Telecommunications and [...]

Preparing for the Future: PVAMU expands health education with new school

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (May 10, 2023) - Prairie View A&M University is no stranger to the field of health. Just in the past year, the University celebrated the 100th anniversary of the first class to graduate from its College of Nursing. For nearly a decade, the Undergraduate Medical AcademyĀ has emphasized the integration of leadership development [...]

An Inspiring Journey: Ezekiel Hunt, PVAMUā€™s 9th Annual Essay/Oratory Contest Winner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi71-UEFItQ Ā  PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (May 8, 2023) - This semester, Prairie View A&M University sophomore, Ezekiel Hunt, earned first place in the Universityā€™s 9th Annual Essay and Oratory Contest. According to Ezekiel, itā€™s an accomplishment he could not have imagined just a few short years ago. ā€œI was attending community college in Los Angeles [...]

Making History: PVAMU launches $40M national University Transportation Center

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (April 20, 2023) ā€” In a historic moment for Prairie View A&M University, Texas A&M University System Chancellor John Sharp announced the institution has been selected as the first Historically Black College/University to lead a $40 million University Transportation Center. This achievement paves the way for PVAMU to become a key player [...]

PVAMU, Texas A&M announce faculty winners of $600,000 joint PRISE research grants for 2023

Credit: Pressmaster/Shutterstock.com PRAIRIE VIEW and BRYAN-COLLEGE STATION, Texas (April 11, 2023)Ā­ Ā­- Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) and Texas A&M University (Texas A&M) are awarding $600,000 to 15 teams of PVAMU-Texas A&M faculty investigators who belong to the third cohort under the 2023 Panther Research and Innovation for Scholarly Excellence (PRISE) grant program. [...]

Substantial NEH grant helping to eliminate silences, erasures surrounding history of PVAMU

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (April 4, 2023) ā€“ The Special Collections & Archives Department at Prairie View A&M University has received a $450,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The funds helped establish the Digital PV Panther Project, which aims to eliminate the silences and erasures surrounding the history of PVAMU. The project is [...]

PVAMU nabs $3 million grant to support underserved Texas farmers

PRAIRIE VIEW,Ā Texas (March 21, 2023) ā€“ Prairie View A&M University has been awarded $3 million to provide training, education and community engagement to underserved farmers across 60 counties in East Texas via the Climate-Smart Farm Planning Program. This award is part of the Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities Funding opportunity announced by the USDA. ā€œExpanding opportunities [...]

PVAMU receives $5 million from USDA to assist small-scale Texas farmers

PRAIRIE VIEW,Ā Texas (March 15, 2023) ā€“ Prairie View A&M University, along with research partners at Texas A&M University, University of Houston, and Michigan Aerospace Corporation, has been awarded a new grant to help support small-scale, underserved and limited resources farmers reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The project, dubbed the Climate-Smart Sustainability Certificate, will substantially expand opportunities [...]

PVAMUā€™s new Innovation Hub expands opportunities for student success

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (March 7, 2023) - Supporters of Prairie View A&M Universityā€™s Roy G. Perry College of Engineering celebrated the grand opening and ribbon cutting of its Epsilon Gamma lota Inc. Innovation Hub for Student Success. The new lab, valued at $10,000, is designed to help students think bigger and broader, elevating the ā€œengineering [...]

More than two dozen PVAMU students selected for newest class of 1890 Scholars

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (Feb. 24, 2023) ā€“Ā The United States Department of Agriculture 1890 National Scholars Program has selected a whopping 14 College of Agriculture and Human Sciences students for its 2022-2023 scholarship class. The USDA/1890 National Scholars Program is a partnership between the USDA and 1890 Historically Black Land-Grant Universities, such as PVAMU. The primary [...]