PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (September 1, 2022) The global issue of sustainability is becoming more urgent and critical. With $499,526.00 in funding, Yunxiang Gao, Ph.D., assistant professor of chemistry and physics in the Brailsford College of Arts and Sciences (BCAS), is motivated to contribute to the research that resolves the challenge. With funding from the USDA-National Institute of Food and [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (August 31, 2022) Kevin Storr’s research in Quantum Design (QD) will expand with his recent award of $199,500 from the US Department of Defense -Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR). The funding is for his “Thermal and Electrical and Conductivity Investigations into Boron Nitride, Transition Metal Dichalcogenides, and Diamond Films” project. Kevin Storr, [...]
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 [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas ( May 11, 2022) Canadian student Maya Swaby-Wallerson learned about African American history as a bonus to earning a bachelor’s degree in management information systems at Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU). The Ontario native was unfamiliar with Historically Black Colleges/Universities (HBCU) while moving through the education system in her native Ontario. Swaby-Wallerson, [...]
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 [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas ( May 5, 2022) Working with a mentor in the RISE Undergraduate Research program positively impacted the academic experience, professional development, and life of Utomwen David Irabor, a graduating senior studying Chemical Engineering at the Roy G. Perry College of Engineering at Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU). Irabor is a student researcher [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, TEXAS (April 25, 2022) Exploring space is one of the unique endeavors human beings have ever undertaken. A large part of that amazement is the complexity of having a stable and environmentally -friendly energy source, or propellant, to fuel the transport into space. However, there is no generic replacement for hydrazine-based propellant with a [...]
