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Huque Earns $2M from NASA for Drop Tower Research

Ziaul Huque, Ph.D. PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (August 26, 2022) With recent funding from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration -Stennis Space Center, Ziaul Huque, Ph.D., Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Center for High-Pressure Combustion in Microgravity (CHPC) and Yuhao Xu, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering will begin conducting experimental research at Prairie View [...]

Shamim Earns More Than $750,000 from AFOSR and NSF to Support Kinetics of Vitrification and Crystallization Research

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (August 24, 2022) Nabila Shamim recently earned over $750,000 in funding to support her research on the physics and chemistry of polymers and glass-forming materials. The funding includes a $458,190.00 grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) and an initiation award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) of $300,000 to support the [...]

Fernando Improves Food Safety with $100K from the USDA

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (June 8, 2022) The food sector has made significant progress in ensuring food safety in recent years.  With the rising usage of new food additives and innovation in the manufacture of food, there is an increasing interest in researching the use of high-throughput chemical safety testing procedures.  Harshica Fernando, Ph.D., will use [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]