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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 [...]

Research Offers Opportunities for Discoveries for Undergraduate Student

PRAIRIE VIEW, TEXAS (April 18, 2022) Trinity Brigham plans to complete medical school after earning a degree in chemistry.   The junior is focused on the biomedical concentration and has minors in biology, Spanish, and health.  Brigham is a participant in the Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) Division of Research & Innovation for Scholarly Excellence (RISE) [...]

Mellon Foundation Awards PVAMU $600,000 for African American Studies Program

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (April 11, 2022) For Melanye Price, Ph.D., it has been fulfilling to do the work accomplished in the first phase of the grant from the Mellon Foundation to the Ruth J. Simmons Center for Race and Justice. When the Foundation presented the opportunity to conceive a second phase of the project, it [...]

2022 Panther Research and Innovation for Scholarly Excellence (PRISE) Grant Winners

PVAMU AND TEXAS A&M ANNOUNCE FACULTY WINNERS OF $400,000 JOINT PRISE RESEARCH GRANTS FOR 2022 Collaborative research areas include agriculture, architecture, science, education, engineering, and psychology. PRAIRIE VIEW and BRYAN-COLLEGE STATION, Texas (April 5, 2022)­ ­- Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) and Texas A&M University are continuing their mission of increasing research collaborations between the [...]

Vice President Magesh Rajan Shares Partnership Perspective on APLU Panel

Partnerships that Enhance Research Opportunities In March, I took part in a unique webinar called the Conversation Series hosted by the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) and its Council on Research (CoR). The APLU is a research, policy, and advocacy organization dedicated to strengthening and advancing the work of public universities in North [...]

Bunch Supports Black Farmers with $196,000 from American Forest Foundation

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (March 25, 2022)  Black farmers across the nation are struggling to keep their small farms.  In Texas, Clarence Bunch, Ph.D., program leader for the Cooperative Extension Program (CEP) in the Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) College of Agriculture and Human Sciences (CAHS), plans to ease the burden on some socially disadvantaged African American farmers with a recent [...]