PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (Sept. 22, 2023) — Scientists and agriculturalists started cultivating grain thousands of years ago, and society hasn’t stopped finding uses for it since. It’s a culinary staple the world over, a core component of animal feed, and it’s even become critical to bioenergy production. However, some experts say the resource is being [...]
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Center of Excellence for Cross-Border Threat Screening and Supply Chain Defense, CBTS, led by Texas A&M AgriLife Research, is supporting a DHS Summer Research Team effort to detect harmful chemicals in shrimp supplies.
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (Aug. 10, 2023) — The National Science Foundation Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program (Noyce) has awarded a grant of $1.2 million for five years to support a project at Prairie View A&M University called “Building a Community of Mathematics and Science Teachers through the Application of Social Cognitive Career Theory.” Camille Burnett, Ph.D. [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (Aug. 4, 2023) - The viral video of the murder of George Floyd by police officers compelled millions of protestors to the streets during the summer of 2020. For some, the disturbing incident shocked them into action; for others, it was another reminder of the racial bias and inequities that often lead [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (July 20, 2023) - To boost recruitment efforts and student interest in livestock production and management, researchers from Prairie View A&M University and Texas A&M University are partnering on a project that will offer an “Experiential Approach to Beef Cattle Production Feedlots for Undergraduate Students.” The United States Department of Agriculture’s National [...]
Every year, the Northern Hemisphere region of the Atlantic Ocean embraces the annual hurricane season that officially starts on June 1 and ends on November 30. This period has been adopted by convention; it’s when most tropical cyclogenesis occurs in the Atlantic. Though the formation of subtropical or tropical cyclones is possible at any time [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (July 6, 2023) – Prairie View A&M University students are learning, alongside other students from institutions across Texas, how to make public health information technology more fair, inclusive and equitable. The ultimate goal of public health information technology, also known as public health informatics, is to use information, computer science and technology [...]
Juneteenth is one of the oldest known celebrations commemorating the ending of slavery in the United States. Dating back to 1865, it was on June 19 that the Union soldiers, led by Major General Gordon Granger, landed at Galveston, Texas, with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now free.
My first encounter with Lucinda, an enslaved woman held at Alta Vista Plantation owned by Jared Kirby, came by way of reading her details on Rice University’s SlaveVoyages website. Kirby carried fifteen-year-old Lucinda on Tuesday, May 25, 1858, from New Orleans, Louisiana, on board the steamship Galveston to Galveston, Texas, with the help of a shipping company, Fellows & Co. The fine [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas - Thanks to the internet, just about everything is at our fingertips—information, opportunities and connections. But what if you can’t access the internet? That’s where the Biden-Harris Administration’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 [...]
