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 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. [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (November 4, 2025) — From The Hill to The Wall, Blessing Chinemerem Dike’s journey from Prairie View to Berlin reflects more than academic excellence—it symbolizes global impact. As a Ph.D. candidate in electrical engineering with a focus on wireless communications and AI, she represented Prairie View A&M University at the 14th IEEE [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (November 3, 2025) – Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) continues to strengthen its role in advancing Texas’ transportation infrastructure through two new research collaborations with the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT). TxDOT has awarded more than $1.2M across two projects led by Texas A&M University, with PVAMU serving as a co-principal investigator [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (October 29, 2025) — Noel Estwick, Ph.D., assistant professor and research scientist in the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources at Prairie View A&M University, has secured a $750,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy for the project “Southeast Texas Urban IFL: Equitable Solutions for Communities Caught Between Floods and [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (October 22, 2025) — Prairie View A&M University continues to advance research in sustainable poultry nutrition with a new grant of more than $240,000 awarded to Jayant Lohakare, Ph.D., a research professor at the Cooperative Agricultural Research Center (CARC). Jayant Lohakare, Ph.D. The project, supported by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s [...]
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 [...]
