Week of Events
PVAMU 2026–2027 General Scholarship Application has been EXTENDED
Guess what, Panthers! 🐾 The deadline for the PVAMU 2026–2027 General Scholarship Application has been EXTENDED to May 15th! 🎉 There’s still time to secure funding for your future. Don’t miss this opportunity. 🔗Apply today: https://pvamu.academicworks.com/ Best regards, Default Prevention - Financial Aid
Monday, April 20, 2026
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Tuesday, April 21, 2026
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April 21, 2026 -Tarek Aziz Master’s Thesis Defense, Tuesday, April 21, 2026 @ 10:00 am Central Time
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April 21, 2026 -Career Services Informational Session
Tarek Aziz Master’s Thesis Defense, Tuesday, April 21, 2026 @ 10:00 am Central Time
COMMITTEE CHAIR: Dr. Suxia Cui CO-COMMITTEE CHAIR: Dr. Lujun Zhai TITLE: EFFECTIVE DATA AUGMENTATION STRATEGIES FOR SMALL OBJECT DETECTION ABSTRACT: Data augmentation remains the most effective method of improving object detection, particularly in scenes where small objects dominate and the annotated datasets are small. While geometric augmentation techniques such as flipping, cropping, and photometric augmentations [...]
Career Services Informational Session
Please join us next Tuesday, April 21st, at 6:30 pm, for our virtual informational series. Dr. Hebert Thomas, Assistant Director, from the Careers & Professional Development Department, will inform us of the career services available for students at PVAMU. To join the Zoom, please click on "Join Zoom Meeting" on the flyer day of the [...]
Wednesday, April 22, 2026
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April 22, 2026 -Maowen Tang Master’s Thesis Defense, Wednesday, April 22, 2026 @ 11:00 am Central Time
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April 22, 2026Lasonya Dunham Dissertation Defense, Wednesday, April 22, 2026 @ 1:00 pm Central Time
Maowen Tang Master’s Thesis Defense, Wednesday, April 22, 2026 @ 11:00 am Central Time
COMMITTEE CHAIR: Dr. Yonghui Wang TITLE: STRUCTURED REPRESENTATION LEARNING FOR GENERALIZABLE DEEPFAKE VIDEO DETECTION ABSTRACT Deepfake video detection has become an important problem in multimedia forensics as modern generative models produce increasingly realistic facial manipulations. Although many existing detectors achieve strong performance on the datasets on which they are trained, their performance often degrades substantially [...]
Lasonya Dunham Dissertation Defense, Wednesday, April 22, 2026 @ 1:00 pm Central Time
COMMITTEE CHAIR: Dr. Patricia Miller TITLE: WHITE PRINCIPALS AS ANTI-RACIST ALLIES IN AFRICAN AMERICAN SCHOOLS ABSTRACT: Racism and education in American schools are more complex and misunderstood now more than ever. Even as Black and Brown populations expand, their educational conditions are rapidly deteriorating due to societal racial injustices. A large majority of African American [...]
Thursday, April 23, 2026
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April 23, 2026 -Akanimo Etokebe Dissertation Proposal Defense, Thursday, April 23, 2026 @ 10:00 am Central Time
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April 23, 2026 -LaRonda Washington Dissertation Defense, Thursday, April 23, 2026 @ 10:00 am Central Time
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April 23, 2026 -Richard Price Dissertation Defense, Thursday, April 23, 2026 @ 1:00 pm Central Time
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April 23, 2026 -NATURE’S INTELLIGENCE A PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT @ Northwest Houston Center Library
Akanimo Etokebe Dissertation Proposal Defense, Thursday, April 23, 2026 @ 10:00 am Central Time
COMMITTEE CHAIR: Dr. Suxia Cui TITLE: CNN-BASED IMAGE ENHANCEMENT USING SPARSITY-AWARE OPTIMIZATION ABSTRACT: The deployment of convolutional neural network (CNN)-based image enhancement in edge computing environments is constrained by limited hardware resources and strict power budgets. Although CNN architectures provide superior visual restoration performance compared to traditional filtering techniques, convolution operations exhibit high multiply–accumulate (MAC) [...]
LaRonda Washington Dissertation Defense, Thursday, April 23, 2026 @ 10:00 am Central Time
COMMITTEE CHAIR: Dr. Pamela Freeman TITLE: FEAR OF FACING OUR WORST SELF: A NARRATIVE INQUIRY ON TEACHERS’ IDENTITIES, IDEOLOGIES, AND RESPONSE TO INCREASED DIVERSITY IN A MAJOR ABSTRACT: Purpose: Suburban school districts have experienced apparent demographic changes over the past 10 years. However, there is limited research exploring how suburban teachers are responding to such [...]
Richard Price Dissertation Defense, Thursday, April 23, 2026 @ 1:00 pm Central Time
COMMITTEE CHAIR: Dr. Pamela Freeman TITLE: HOW FAR HAVE WE COME? ANALYZING THE SOCIAL JUSTICE ORIENTATION OF HBCU DOCTORAL CANDIDATES & GRADUATES POST-TRUMP AND GEORGE FLOYD ABSTRACT: The George Floyd murder and the ongoing saga of Trump presidencies have cemented social and ideological divisions within American culture, creating reverberations throughout the realms of academic discourse [...]
NATURE’S INTELLIGENCE A PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT @ Northwest Houston Center Library
Good afternoon Please join us on Thursday, April 23, 2026, from 6:00 pm-8:00 pm for another great art exhibit here at the Northwest. The Northwest Houston Center Library would like to invite you to the Nature's Intelligence, A Photography Exhibit opening night reception. Click the link on the flyer or click the link below to [...]
Friday, April 24, 2026
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Saturday, April 25, 2026
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Sunday, April 26, 2026
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