PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (January 22, 2026) — Prairie View A&M University senior Alliere Murphy has her sights set on transforming both science and smiles. A biology major and participant in the RISE Program, Murphy is already shaping her future through hands-on research, leadership, and a passion for serving her community. Mentored by Lori Banks, Ph.D., [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (December 17, 2025) — Prairie View A&M University is advancing the future of food safety through a new $100,000 grant from the USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA). The award supports a collaborative research project led by Sameh Abdelwahed, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Chemistry, working alongside Keyan [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (December 16, 2025) -- Raghava Kommalapati, Ph.D., Honeywell Endowed Professor and professor of civil and environmental engineering, and Ananda Amarasekara, Ph.D., Regents Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Physics at Prairie View A&M University, have been awarded a $320,000 grant from Shell Global Solutions to support research in sustainable aviation fuels. [...]
PRIAIRE VIEW, Texas (December 16, 2025) -- Prairie View A&M University junior Laura Upchurch, a Human Nutrition and Food major, has discovered a deeper sense of purpose through her experience in the RISE Program. Mentored by Jacklyn Sanders, Ph.D., Upchurch is studying how mentorship shapes student engagement and retention within the College of Agriculture, Food, [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (December 11, 2025) — The Texas A&M University System is proposing the launch of a Research Excellence Fund (REF) designed to strengthen research capacity, competitiveness, and impact across all member institutions—including Prairie View A&M University. The REF will support strategic, high-value initiatives that advance discovery, fuel innovation, expand workforce development, and bolster national [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (December 9, 2025) --- Prairie View A&M University has secured nearly $500,000 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, NIH–National Cancer Institute, to develop a Certificate in Computational Genomics and Biomedical Data Science—a program designed to prepare students for rapidly growing careers at the intersection of biology, computation and health. [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (November 20, 2025) -- Prairie View A&M University’s Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Dr. Noushin Ghaffari has secured nearly $190,000 from Sandia National Laboratories to develop advanced machine learning techniques aimed at improving bioenergy crop research. Noushin Ghaffari, Ph.D. The project, titled “Machine Learning Analysis of Hyperspectral Confocal Fluorescence Microscopy [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (November 18, 2025) — Senior mathematics major Trenton Jeffers is driven by curiosity and a passion for learning. Through Prairie View A&M University’s Research and Innovation Success and Excellence (RISE) Program, he’s turning that curiosity into action—using research to explore how artificial intelligence is reshaping education. Under the mentorship of Shannon Solis, [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (November 17, 2025) -- Prairie View A&M University is launching a USDA-funded outreach initiative to help farmers in Texas, Louisiana and Alabama grow and market native grassland seeds that support sustainable and climate-smart agriculture. Therese Pennell, Ph.D. Therese Pennell, associate professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, will serve [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (November 17, 2025) — Prairie View A&M University Chemistry Professor Matthew Minus, Ph.D., has secured nearly $200,000 in NASA funding through the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley to support a three-year research project focused on advancing Earth science, expanding research capacity at PVAMU, and strengthening pathways into the national STEM workforce. [...]
