In a field with a severe underrepresentation of Black women, Christina Hastings ‘17 is not your typical engineer. While Prairie View A&M University has garnered a reputation as a leading producer of African American engineers, with the success of programs like the five-year BS/MS tract, the field remains largely dominated by white males.
Houston native Stephine Mathis is poised for a future of helping others by starting her own hearing aid brand. As a first-generation college student who’s also hearing impaired, Mathis had plenty to overcome while pursuing a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering at Prairie View A&M University. But with hard work, faith, and a good friend at her side, [...]
Prairie View A&M University will be well represented during the University Innovation Fellows (UIF) program’s Silicon Valley Meetup this August. After being hand-selected from an international community of 2,200, not one, but two fellows from PVAMU will be serving as student event leaders: Kehlin Swain, an alumnus of the computer engineering program, and Tiara Johnson, a [...]
