Kameron Kindle and Daa'iyah Ford Two students in Prairie View A&M University’s College of Business (COB) have put the university and its relatively new minor in personal financial planning in the national spotlight. The Association of African American Financial Advisors (AAAA) Foundation selected Kameron Kindle, a senior from Houston, and Daa’iyah Ford, a [...]
Taylor Williams, a senior business management major at Prairie View A&M University, was recently selected to be a “Forbes Under 30” scholar. The global media company chose 1,000 students across the U.S. to be part of the program. The students will travel to Detroit, Michigan October 27-30, 2019, to attend Forbes’ annual “Under 30” conference. [...]
Prairie View A&M University’s first-place victory earlier this year in the HBCU Battle of the Brains Competition during South by Southwest (SXSW) led to an extended relationship with the National Football League (NFL). Over the summer, PVAMU’s winning team, Dannick Boyogueno, Amber Diehl, Oluseun John, Seif Hediya, and Uchechukwu Uboh, along with faculty and staff [...]
Prairie View A&M University’s College of Business held its 9th annual Dean’s Book Reading Contest on April 22, 2019. The competition was open to undergraduate students in the COB. This semester, student participants received one of two contest books provided by Dean Munir Quddus, “A World of Three Zeros” by Muhammad Yunus and “The Challenge [...]
Who: Faculty, Staff: Lawrence McNeil, Associate Professor of Economics Kimberly Gordon, Assistant Dean of the College of Business Students: Jordan King, Engineering, Senior Kamilah Freeman, Psychology, Junior Praise Benson, Agriculture, Junior Precious Effiong, Engineering, Junior Romaine Knight, Finance, Senior Taylor Williams, Management, Junior When: March 8 - 17, 2019 Where: Sydney, Australia Purpose of the [...]
Prairie View A&M University’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Program once again offered free income tax preparation January through March. The program, a partnership between the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and PVAMU’s College of Business (COB) and Cooperative Extension Program (CEP) under the College of Agriculture and Human Sciences (CAHS), utilized PVAMU faculty, staff, and […]
On Feb. 2, Prairie View A&M University’s College of Business hosted its first-ever Young Investor Symposium for dozens of students from three area high schools (Nimitz High School, Cleveland High School, and Young Women’s College Preparatory Academy). According to Dr. Yi Zhang, associate professor of finance, the goal of the event was to expose young […]
“From the classroom to Main Street,” Cleveland, Ohio native and Prairie View A&M University alumnus DeMarr Holmes owns Screwston Sole. He says it’s the first smart sneaker store in America. “The smart sneaker concept is perfect for consignment sneaker stores,” said Holmes. “Usually, when you shop at places like these, you constantly have to check […]
Prairie View A&M University students won 1st place in the HBCU Battle of the Brains Competition in Austin, Texas. The event was March 7 - March 10, 2019. The South by Southwest (SXSW) event hosted featured speakers, Stacey Abrams (Georgia House of Rep.), Amber Baldet (Blockchain & Cryptocurrency, Co-founder & CEO of Clovyr), and Kimberly [...]
An interdisciplinary team of students from Prairie View A&M University took home the top prize in Phillips 66’s (P66) Black Employee Network (BEN) Case Competition. A total of 10 students from PVAMU and 15 students from Texas Southern University (divided into teams of five) participated in the competition on September 14 at P66’s headquarters in [...]
