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The Endowed Effect

Endowed professors hold a distinctive and revered position within the academic landscape of Prairie View A&M University. These distinguished faculty members embody excellence in teaching, research and service. These endowed positions serve as a testament to the Universityā€™s dedication to intellectual growth, cutting-edge research and the cultivation of exceptional talent. Indeed, endowed professors embody the [...]

Empowering Girls Through STEM: PVAMU’s Honors Program Partners with Girl Scouts

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (Oct. 27, 2023) ā€“ Prairie View A&M University is home to excellence, pioneers, and changemakers. This month, the three ideals came together in a transformative collaboration, and the PVAMU family was thrilled to be part of it all! PVAMUā€™s Honors Program proudly welcomed troops from the Girl Scouts of San Jacinto Council [...]

Google program plants software expert at PVAMU

Donnell Debnam Jr. PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (OCt. 9, 2023) - Computer science students at Prairie View A&M University are gaining firsthand knowledge this semester from a Google software engineer. As an instructor in theĀ Google in Residence program, Donnell Debnam Jr. is helping train future software engineers ā€” and other potential tech professionals ā€” [...]

New project at PVAMU delves into space research, unique career opportunities

Richard Wilkins, Ph.D. PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (Oct. 6, 2023) - Prairie View A&M University faculty members, Dr. Richard Wilkins, a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Dr. Merlyn X. Pulikkathara ā€˜04, an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and Physics, have been awarded a $1.2 million grant with [...]

Carolyn Fritz ’84 says PVAMU helped launch 40-year career in federal service

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (Oct. 3, 2023) - Carolyn Fritz ā€˜84 chose to study at Prairie View A&M University and pursue a bachelorā€™s degree in mechanical engineering because of the institution's exemplary engineering program. Still, she couldn't have predicted how it would shape her career. Her parents instilled the importance of hard work and the value [...]

Lijun Qian

Long before ChatGPT, there was AlexNet ā€“ the deep-learning solution named after its creator, Alex Krizhevsky. It won the ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge 2012 and ensnared Lijun Qian, Ph.D., sparking his interest in the emerging field. Now, Dr. Qian is the AT&T endowed professor of electrical and computer engineering at Prairie View [...]

Raghava Kommalapati

The rains decided the fates of farmers in the small rural village in India where Prairie View A&M Universityā€™s Honeywell Endowed Professor Raghava Kommalapati, Ph.D., PE, BCEE, F. ASCE, grew up. As a young boy in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh in India, where farming was the main livelihood, Dr. Kommalapati saw firsthand [...]

John O. Attia

Prairie View A&M University Texas Instruments Endowed Professor John Attia, Ph.D., has taught for 43 years. Relatively new to the role of an endowed professorship at PVAMU, the professor of electrical and computer engineering in the Roy G. Perry College of Engineering has been an educator since 1980 and has no plans to stop. [...]

PVAMUā€™s Class of 2027: Meet a future engineer, communicator, aerospace expert, Congress member

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (Aug. 21, 2023) - In Prairie View A&M University's new freshmen class, a diverse group of students is embarking on their college journeys this week. They come with dreams of making transportation more sustainable, telling stories through videos, revolutionizing aerospace, and shaping better laws. Ford Blunt IV Here are four [...]

Opinion| Finding the Signal in the Noise: My Journey through Electrical Engineering and a Masterā€™s Degree

"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." - Abraham Lincoln Completing my BSc in Electronic and Electrical Engineering at Obafemi Awolowo University in Nigeria was the foundation of a lifelong dream. As a recipient of the 2014 edition of the prestigious NLNG/BW Scholarship [...]