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Sande to Increase Educator Diversity in Texas with $300K Award from Texas Tech -TEA and US Prep

The teacher population in Texas does not reflect its student population. Beverly Sande, Ph.D., plans to change that statistic with $300,000 in funding from Texas Tech University-Texas Education Agency in collaboration with the University-School Partnerships for the Renewal of Educator Preparation (US PREP) National Center. The award will position Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) to lead innovative efforts to increase diversity among the [...]

Student Spotlight: Nursing Grad Student Prepares for Career in Academia

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (May 13, 2022) Ralston Lockett recognizes that research provides opportunities to make a difference. The Houston, Texas native is part of the Faculty Research & Innovation for Scholarly Excellence (RISE) program. RISE enables faculty researchers to expand and sustain their research through external grants and contracts while mentoring students to become the next generation [...]

Student Spotlight: May RISE Graduate Gets a Well-Rounded Education

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas ( May 11, 2022) Canadian student Maya Swaby-Wallerson learned about African American history as a bonus to earning a bachelor’s degree in management information systems at Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU). The Ontario native was unfamiliar with Historically Black Colleges/Universities (HBCU) while moving through the education system in her native Ontario. Swaby-Wallerson, [...]

Regisford and a Multidisciplinary Team Earn Prestigious NIH/NIGMS U-RISE Award of $1.7 Million to Prepare Students for Research Careers in the Biomedical Sciences

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (May 9, 2022) Having a diverse pipeline of well-trained STEM students ready to enter Ph.D. programs and ultimately the STEM workforce just got easier, thanks to a $1,712,952 National Institutes of Health/National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIH/NIGMS) funding award.  While the solution is not simple, Principal Investigator, Gloria Regisford, Ph.D., believes that the [...]

Student Spotlight: RISE Offers Full Spectrum of Opportunities for Graduating Senior

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas ( May 5, 2022) Working with a mentor in the RISE Undergraduate Research program positively impacted the academic experience, professional development, and life of Utomwen David Irabor, a graduating senior studying Chemical Engineering at the Roy G. Perry College of Engineering at Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU). Irabor is a student researcher [...]

Jones Secures $500,000 from USDA-NIFA for Career-Readiness

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (April 29, 2022) Wash Jones, associate professor of agriculture in the College of Agriculture and Human Sciences (CAHS), is looking forward to the opportunities the recent funding of a half-million dollars in scholarship funding from the USDA-National Institute of Food And Agriculture will provide for students. "Our students need scholarship assistance, and [...]

Fares Studies Navasota River Flooding with $131, 610 Award from TAMU-G

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (April 27, 2022) Ali Fares, endowed professor of Water Security and Water-Energy-Food Nexus at Prairie View A&M University, maintains that “a changing climate has impacted how we work, how we live, how we play, and how we do business; it is impacting all aspects of our lives.” Therefore, when landowners on the [...]

Shamim to Develop Green Propellants with $117,768 Department of Defense DURIP Award

PRAIRIE VIEW, TEXAS (April 25, 2022) Exploring space is one of the unique endeavors human beings have ever undertaken.  A large part of that amazement is the complexity of having a stable and environmentally -friendly energy source, or propellant, to fuel the transport into space.  However, there is no generic replacement for hydrazine-based propellant with a [...]

PVAMU joins in share of $10 million opportunity to increase diversity in research, health care

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (April 18, 2022) – A cross-section of Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) faculty is working collaboratively with The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth-Houston) to develop a diverse talent pipeline for those seeking a career in public health and data science in the future. The U.S. Department of Health [...]

Research Offers Opportunities for Discoveries for Undergraduate Student

PRAIRIE VIEW, TEXAS (April 18, 2022) Trinity Brigham plans to complete medical school after earning a degree in chemistry.   The junior is focused on the biomedical concentration and has minors in biology, Spanish, and health.  Brigham is a participant in the Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) Division of Research & Innovation for Scholarly Excellence (RISE) [...]