Dear PVAMU Family, It is with a heavy heart that we announce the passing of Dr. Richard Wilkins, an esteemed faculty member of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and Associate Dean of Research for the College of Engineering. Dr. Wilkins dedicated 33 years of service to the College of Engineering at Prairie View A&M University, leaving an [...]
Prairie View A&M University is proud to announce The Inaugural Women in Leadership Conference 2024, scheduled to take place during Women’s History Month, March 6-7. Hosted by the Roy G. Perry College of Engineering, the conference, titled “Women Leading the Way: Imagine the Possibilities,” is set to be a groundbreaking event that aims to empower and uplift [...]
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.
Research has indicated that restricting antibiotics in poultry production can negatively impact bird health, production efficiency, and the environment. With the U.S. being the world’s largest producer of poultry, and considering the Food and Drug Administration’s plan to phase out antibiotic growth promoters in broiler production (chickens raised for meat), researchers at Prairie View A&M [...]
Long before ChatGPT, there was AlexNet – 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 A&M [...]
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. “In [...]
The rains decided the fates of farmers in the small rural village in India where Prairie View A&M University’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 how [...]
Dreaming of crossing the stage and earning a bachelor’s degree is one thing. But the entire process can be confusing when you’re the first in your family to attend college. Prairie View A&M University junior computer science major Martaesia Fisher knew she wanted to go to college in high school, but that was all she knew. She [...]
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! PVAMU’s Honors Program proudly welcomed troops from the Girl Scouts of San Jacinto Council community to the 1,400-acre campus. The mission was clear: [...]
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 ‘04, an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and Physics, have been awarded a $1.2 million grant with two goals: to develop and test high-tech materials for use in harsh [...]
