PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (September 20, 2022) - In August of 2022, the DoD Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority‐Serving Institutions (HBCU/MSI) Science Program announced its award recipients. Merlyn X. Pulikkathara, Ph.D., assistant professor in the department of chemistry and physics at Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU), was one of 60 university researchers at 43 [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (September 2, 2022) Kayla Freeman, a senior in the chemical engineering program, came to Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) as part two of a unique program at Xavier University of Louisiana. Upon graduation in May of 2023, Freeman will have earned dual undergraduate degrees in chemistry from Xavier and engineering from PVAMU. [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (September 1, 2022) The global issue of sustainability is becoming more urgent and critical. With $499,526.00 in funding, Yunxiang Gao, Ph.D., assistant professor of chemistry and physics in the Brailsford College of Arts and Sciences (BCAS), is motivated to contribute to the research that resolves the challenge. With funding from the USDA-National Institute of Food and [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (August 31, 2022) Kevin Storr’s research in Quantum Design (QD) will expand with his recent award of $199,500 from the US Department of Defense -Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR). The funding is for his “Thermal and Electrical and Conductivity Investigations into Boron Nitride, Transition Metal Dichalcogenides, and Diamond Films” project. Kevin Storr, [...]
Ziaul Huque, Ph.D. PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (August 26, 2022) With recent funding from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration -Stennis Space Center, Ziaul Huque, Ph.D., Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Center for High-Pressure Combustion in Microgravity (CHPC) and Yuhao Xu, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering will begin conducting experimental research at Prairie View [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (August 24, 2022) Nabila Shamim recently earned over $750,000 in funding to support her research on the physics and chemistry of polymers and glass-forming materials. The funding includes a $458,190.00 grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) and an initiation award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) of $300,000 to support the [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (June 17, 2022) The most impactful lesson Miranda Sharp, a recent graduate of the Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) School of Architecture, learned as a participant in the Faculty RISE-Graduate Research Program (RISE) is to voice your ideas without fear. Sharp, who hails from Bossier City, Louisiana, earned a master’s degree in [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (June 15, 2022) In partnership with the Southern Rural Development Center at Mississippi State University, Jimmy Henry is poised to research the gaps in digital equity and access to broadband in limited-resource communities. The project funding of $28,275 will target communities that have been under or unserved, explicitly focusing on Black/African-American populations [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (June 14, 2022) Water security expert Ali Fares is taking steps to ensure minority farmers benefit from precision agriculture (P.A.) technology advancements. Fares is an endowed professor of water security and water-energy-food nexus at Prairie View A&M University. He recently earned $750,000 from the USDA-National Institute of Food and Agriculture to build [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (June 8, 2022) The food sector has made significant progress in ensuring food safety in recent years. With the rising usage of new food additives and innovation in the manufacture of food, there is an increasing interest in researching the use of high-throughput chemical safety testing procedures. Harshica Fernando, Ph.D., will use [...]
