PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (Oct. 20, 2025) – Prairie View A&M University Assistant Professor Yunxiang Gao, Ph.D., from the Department of Chemistry in the Samuel Brailsford College of Arts and Sciences has secured nearly $600,000 in grant funding from the U.S. Department of Energy to pioneer a new way of creating carbon nanobuds—tiny molecular structures formed [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (October 20, 2025) – Prairie View A&M University continues to strengthen its leadership in agricultural innovation and climate research through a new NASA-funded project that aims to help farmers better prepare for the impacts of climate variability. Ripendra Awal, Ph.D., professor in the College of Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources (CAFNR), has [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (October 13, 2025) – Prairie View A&M University is taking bold steps to enhance teaching and learning in engineering education through a collaborative research initiative supported by the National Science Foundation. Emmanuel U. Nzewi, Ph.D., P.E., professor of water resources systems and interim department head of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (October 13, 2025) — A new National Science Foundation (NSF) award of more than $500,000 is propelling Prairie View A&M University’s leadership in cybersecurity research and education, led by Mohamed F. Chouikha, Ph.D., Chief Scientist and Executive Director of the SECURE Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, with co-principal investigator Annamalai Annamalai, Ph.D., also [...]
PRISE Program Invests $520,000 in 13 Research Projects BRYAN-COLLEGE STATION and PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (Oct. 6, 2025) – The 2025 Panther Research and Innovation for Scholarly Excellence (PRISE) grant program has awarded $520,000 to 13 collaborative teams of faculty investigators from Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) and Texas A&M University, the universities announced today. This [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (October 1, 2025) — Erick Kitenge, Ph.D., associate professor of Economics at Prairie View A&M University, has secured a $50,000 grant from the Risk Management Association Foundation to establish the PV-RMA Fellowships, a research initiative aimed at strengthening inclusive banking practices and policies. Hock Chong, Ph.D., also from the College of Business, [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (October 1, 2025) — When most people think of cybersecurity, they imagine lines of code, firewalls, and digital locks. Few picture the chambers of a national parliament. But for Emma Junior Emmanuel, a graduate student in Computer Information Systems at Prairie View A&M University with a concentration in cybersecurity and digital transformation, his journey [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (September 23, 2025) — Noel Estwick, Ph.D., assistant professor and research scientist in the College of Agriculture, Food, and Natural Sciences at Prairie View A&M University, has received a $15,000 grant from North Carolina A&T University through the USDA Southern Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education program. Noel Estwick, Ph.D. The [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (September 23, 2025) — For Prairie View A&M University senior Malani Lein Clark, research has been more than an academic requirement — it has been a journey of discovery, confidence and purpose. Clark, an agriculture major and participant of the Research and Innovation Success and Excellence (RISE) program, has spent the past [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (Sept. 18, 2025) – Prairie View A&M University senior Kaelen Baly, a psychology major, spent his summer at Harvard University. Baly was part of the Du Bois Scholars Program, a fully funded nine-to ten-week research internship within the Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery Initiative. The Initiative “believes that if they transform Harvard into an [...]
