PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (May 3, 2024) - Prairie View A&M University first-year student Bertrice Askew’s winning essay on the American pianist and composer Thomas Wiggins, a blind musical prodigy born into slavery, struck a chord, perhaps because it was as vulnerable as courageous. Askew (l) pictured beside Dr. Emma Joahanne Thomas-Smith, Provost and Senior [...]
In an effort to highlight the people who are leading colleges and universities across the nation, Watch The Yard reached out to Prairie View A&M University and did an interview with Gabrielle Orji the 2023-2024 Student Government Association president.
Most college students, like most adults in general, are politically apathetic at best and aggressively apolitical at worst. Jaquavous Doucette, known by his friends at Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) as “Quaa,” is not like most college students – or most adults of any age, for that matter.
2023 Student Recipients PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (March 19, 2024) - Prairie View A&M University will celebrate its founding while honoring 5,560 students for their academic efforts at the 2024 Founders’ Day and Honors Recognition Convocation. The Whitlowe R. Green College of Education will host this year’s Convocation on Wednesday, March 20, at 10 [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (February 28, 2024) — Against the vibrant backdrop of Washington DC, at the 103rd Transportation Research Board annual meeting, three Prairie View A&M University students were honored as recipients of the esteemed U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship Program grant. (L-R) Manuela Angunu Micha Nchama, Trinity Wiley Embarking [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (Feb. 19, 2024) - The 20th Annual Mister HBCU Kings’ Leadership Competition took place last month in St. Louis, Missouri, and for the first time in Prairie View A&M University history, Mr. PVAMU won the crown. Houston native Hunter Waldon first came to “The Hill” on a baseball scholarship with dreams of [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (Jan. 26, 2024) - Wesley Walsh is a senior chemical engineering major at Prairie View A&M University. She has worked hard to balance her educational responsibilities with the demands of being a part of the Black Fox dance line with the Marching Storm. Wesley started as a competitive dancer from a very [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (Jan. 19, 2024) – AT&T Dream in Black recognizes Prairie View A&M University student Rejoice Adekoya, a junior nursing major, as a recipient of the 2023 Rising Future Makers award, a showcase dedicated to up-and-coming influential leaders in Historically Black Colleges and Universities. “Receiving this award holds profound significance for me, serving [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (Dec. 12, 2023) – Call it a collaboration of groundbreaking proportions. The Texas Undergraduate Medical Academy was established in 2004 and represents the partnership between Prairie View A&M University and Texas A&M Health Science Center School of Medicine. The prestigious program attracts students interested in careers as physicians, dentists, veterinarians, and pharmacists. [...]
ACCELERATED LEARNING — Space Jam, the winning team composed of mechanical, chemical and civil engineering students, focused on the tracking of acceleration and elevation of a switch, which is important in detecting malfunctions during flight missions. Space Jam team members, from left, included Kaleb Crawford, Kendall Seveor, Donald Okonkwo, Trinity Wiley and Chelsea Guidry. [...]
