PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (February 16, 2024) -- Against the vibrant backdrop of Washington, DC, from January 7 to 11, 2024, at the 103rd Transportation Research Board (TRB) annual meeting, three Prairie View A&M University students were honored as recipients of the esteemed US Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship Program [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (February 14, 2024) Richard Griffin, Ph.D., has been awarded two grants totaling nearly $170,000. One comes from Kansas State University via the US Department of Agriculture-NIFA, and the other originates from Harris County. Griffin is a Professor and Research Scientist in the Cooperative Agricultural Research Center at the College of Agricultural, Food, [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (February 13, 2024) – Harriette Howard-Lee Block, Ph.D., was recently awarded obtained a significant grant totaling $1,981,178 from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Block, Department Head and Associate Professor of Biology at Prairie View A&M University, is the Principal Investigator. The Co-PIs include Deirdre Vaden, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biology at [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas, (February XX, 2024) - Sarah Conrad, Ph.D., has been awarded $77,424 by the National Academies for her work on the Gulf Scholars Program (GSP). Conrad is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Prairie View A&M University. The co-PIs include Assistant Professor of Political Science Kyu Young Lee, Ph.D.; Tamika Baldwin-Clark, Ph.D., LCSW-S, [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas, January 19, 2024) - Lijun Qian, Ph.D., has been awarded $61,000 by the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM). Qian is an AT&T Endowed Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Prairie View A&M University. The Co-PIs are Professor and Director of Broadening Global Learning Opportunities Building Academic Leaders, Richard Wilkins, Ph.D.; Associate [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (January 19, 2024) - Dr. Premkumar Saganti, Ph.D. has been awarded nearly $230,000 in grant funding by the Department of Energy. Saganti is the Director of the Prairie View Solar Observatory and Professor of Physics at Prairie View A&M University. This is a new collaborative effort by four Texas based universities that [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (January 18, 2024) – Alfred Parks, Ph.D. has been awarded over $500,000 by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Parks is a Scientist and Professor of College of Agriculture and Human Sciences at Prairie View A&M University. The Co-PI is Rukeia Draw-Hood, Ph.D., Program Leader of the 4H Development Extension [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (January 18, 2024) – Rambod Rayegan, Ph.D. has been awarded $715,000 by the Department of Energy. Rayegan is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Prairie View A&M University. The Co-PIs are Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Xiaobo Peng, Ph.D.; and Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Lai Jiang, Ph.D. The main goal [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (January 18, 2024) - Suxia Cui, Ph.D., has been awarded nearly $1.25M by the Apple HBCU Partnership. Cui is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Prairie View A&M University. The Co-PI is Research Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Shuza Binzaid, Ph.D. The Apple Innovation initiative will provide “high-quality” [...]
A Joint Collaboration between the Texas Juvenile Crime Prevention Center and the Division of Research and Innovation Research Vibes: Changing Ideas into Reality Prairie View, Texas (January 18, 2023) - The COVID 19 pandemic has highlighted the need for coordinated responses to globalized problems. From public health to Black Lives Matter, local, state, and national [...]
