The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) a grant of $500,000 to support its effort to establish an African-‐American Studies Initiative which will be housed in its Marvin D. and June Samuel Brailsford College of Arts and Sciences. Inspired by the Mellon Foundation award, an anonymous donor pledged an added [...]
PVAMU USDA/1890 National Scholars Prairie View A&M University is pleased to recognize the latest Panthers selected as USDA/1890 National Scholars by the United States Department of Agriculture. Kyla Faith Peer was selected by the Foreign Agriculture Service as a USDA/1890 National Scholar. She is a Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) freshman Agriculture major, focusing in [...]
Prairie View A&M University Cooperative Extension of Fort Bend County, Family, and Community Health, will be offering a Marriage and Relationship series (Marriage Matters) designed for those preparing for marriage. This series will cover topics for those who are engaged, seriously dating couples, and married couples.
Prairie View A&M University can now add two more accolades to the admission material: as a producer of graduates with some of the highest initial earning potential in all Historically Black Colleges and University's (HBCU) and also in the state of Texas. EdSmart.org ranked the Top Historically Black Colleges by Starting Average Salary, where students earn [...]
Tiva Deville is the executive director of Future Professionals of America, a nonprofit organization that was established to provide educational consultation services which would benefit those who desire to further their education to college, vocational school, and graduate school level in the Metroplex.
Designing with the wide-open spaces of Acres Homes in mind, the Prairie View A&M University School of Architecture Race to Zero team (PVAMRtZ) entry tackled the challenge of revitalizing an existing community through an architectural design that promotes casual encounters with neighborhood residents.
Juvenile board members picked Darryl Beatty, a 51-year-old deputy chief of the Travis County Juvenile Probation Department. He will take over the Dallas department on Oct. 1 and become responsible for nearly 1,000 employees.
Affectionately called Pablo by his high school, college, and track friends, Charles A. Ingram ’67 credits his strong faith in God for overcoming difficult times and his philanthropic contributions to his alma mater. “If you’re lost,” says Charles A. Ingram ’67. “I can find you.” A private investigator, policeman, fireman, minister, and [...]
New York Couple’s High Regard for Prairie View A&M University President Inspires Leadership Gift She left an impression—that is what Prairie View A&M University President Ruth Simmons does—she leaves a mark wherever she goes, inspiring positive change that resonates beyond universities into the lives of individuals, families, and communities. It is what Noreen and Ned [...]
PVAMU Alumnus Andre’ Walker has been selected as the Director of Athletics. Walker has spent the past 18 years serving students in HISD as a teacher, coach, assistant principal, and most recently as a senior athletics program administrator for the district’s Athletics Department.