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 [...]
The challenge was accepted and there was no turning back once we started. Prairie View A&M University Engineering and The Honors Program PVAMU students (Carl, Donald, Kara, Kendall, Trinity, Cecil and Chelsea) on the Fluor Corporation grant where I am the PI formed Team “Guardians of the Gears” and faced 17 other teams from universities [...]
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 [...]
Thirteen internships at two Sandia sites resulted in transformative experiences for Prairie View A&M University students in 2023. The opportunities delivered firsthand experience on how the research and development and business students could directly benefit the nation through their chosen career fields. Prairie View A&M interns worked at one of the Sandia locations in Albuquerque, [...]
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: [...]
Irma Fowe, a Senior | Candidate for B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Prairie View A&M University shares her experience through the MSIPP (Minority Service Institution Partnership Program), over her summer internship. “MSIPP is a consortium supporting Q-Camp, research, internships, and provide scholarships. During my internship with Honeywell at the National Security Campus in Kansas, she applied for [...]
Computer science students at Prairie View A&M University are gaining firsthand knowledge this semester from a Google software engineer. As an instructor in the Google in Residence program, Donnell Debnam Jr. is helping train future software engineers — and other potential tech professionals — who are enrolled this fall in Prairie View A&M’s introductory computer [...]
