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Estwick Earns $750,000 DoE Award for Southeast Texas Urban Integrated Field Lab

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (December 16, 2022) — Dr. Noel Estwick, assistant professor of agriculture at Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU), was  awarded $750,000 by the Department of Energy to support his Urban Integrated Field Lab (IFL) in Southeast Texas Southeast Texas (SETx), specifically the Beaumont-Port Arthur region to be labeled as SETx-IFL. Dr. Estwick and [...]

Ray Wins $499,599 NASA Grant to Advance PVAMU Water Research Efforts 

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (December 9, 2022) — Dr. Ram Ray, Ph.D., associate professor in the Cooperative Agriculture Research Center at Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU), has secured $499,599 grant award from National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Global Precipitation Measurement Mission (GPM) rain gauge and Integrated Multi-satellite Retrievals for GPM (IMERG) data for his [...]

Amarasekara Awarded $774,676 for Li-Ion Battery Metal Recycling Project from DoE

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (December 9, 2022) — Dr. Ananda Amarasekara, professor of chemistry at Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU), was  awarded $774,676 by the Department of Energy (DoE) for his project “Li-Ion Battery Critical Metal Recycling Using Sugars.” Dr. Amarasekara was thrilled about the opportunity this funding provides for the PVAMU Chemistry department. “I am [...]

PVAMU and SHELL Share Progress on Nature-Based Solutions Program

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (December 1, 2022) – On Monday November 14, Shell Global Solutions (Shell) and  Prairie View A&M (PVAMU) met at the Memorial Student Center (MSC) to share updates and progress on the PVAMU-Shell Nature Based Solutions (NBS) Research Program—a five-year, $6 million partnership agreement signed earlier this year. Nature Based Solutions Program [...]

Panthers Sweep at Thurgood Marshall College Fund Inaugural Research Incubator Future of Cities by CBRE

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (December 1, 2022) — Dr. Tiffany Thomas, Ph.D., assistant professor of community development at Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) School of Architecture along with three students represented PVAMU at the Thurgood Marshall College Fund’s Inaugural Research Incubator Future of Cities sponsored by CBRE on the campus of Morgan State University in Baltimore, MD in [...]

Ray Earns $191,663 USDA-NIFA Equipment Award

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (December 1, 2022) — Dr. Ram Ray, Ph.D., associate professor in the Cooperative Agriculture Research Center at Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU), was  awarded $191,663 by the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA-NIFA) for an Automated Soil CO2 Flux Monitoring System — equipment that is crucial [...]

Abdelwahed Earns $112,187 DoD-HBCU Equipment Award

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (December 1, 2022) — Dr. Sameh Abdelwahed, Ph.D., assistant professor of chemistry atPrairie View A&M University (PVAMU), was  awarded $112,187 by the Department of Defense (DoD) for Acquisition of Ultraviolet Visible Near Infrared Spectrophotometry Instrumentation (UV-Vis-NIR). The grant is part of a larger fund the DoD has designated to award to Historically [...]

Sande is Awarded a $6.1M Dept. of Education Grant for LEADERS Project

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (November 29, 2022) — Dr. Beverly Sande, PhD., assistant professor in the department of curriculum and instruction at Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU), was awarded a total of $12,200,000 by the United States Department of Education for her program, “Leading Equity Across Diverse Environments with Revolutionary Synergy (LEADERS).” Beverly Sande, PhD [...]

STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: M. Javari Henderson

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (November 22, 2022) M. Javari Henderson, a senior at Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) majoring in architecture with a minor in construction science, is a student researcher with a bright future ahead of him. Upon graduation in May of 2023, Henderson plans to work for an architecture firm that allows him to [...]

PVAMU Vice President of Research and Innovation Magesh Rajan Named to Executive Committee for APLU’s Council on Research

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (November 16, 2022) — Magesh Rajan, Ph.D., P.E., MBA, Vice President of Research & Innovation at Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU), has been elected to the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) Council on Research (COR) Executive Committee. Dr. Rajan is one of eight Executive Committee members voted in by a [...]