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. [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (November 6, 2025) – Prairie View A&M University continues to strengthen its leadership in agricultural innovation through research that supports sustainable production and resilience. Zaira Estrada-Reyes, Ph.D., research associate professor in the College of Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources (CAFNR), has secured more than $65,000 in funding from The 1890 Universities Foundation [...]
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) – Beverly Sande, Ph.D., associate professor in the Whitlowe R. Green College of Education at Prairie View A&M University, has secured $1,246,910 for five years from the U.S. Department of Education to launch Project SpEED-EI (Special Education Enhanced Degree–Early Interventions). She is joined by Charlotte Fontenot, Ed.D., and Ms. [...]
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 [...]
