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STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: RISE Experience Broadens the Scope of Knowledge

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (September 2, 2022) Kayla Freeman, a senior in the chemical engineering program, came to Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) as part two of a unique program at Xavier University of Louisiana. Upon graduation in May of 2023, Freeman will have earned dual undergraduate degrees in chemistry from Xavier and engineering from PVAMU.   [...]

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 [...]

Student Spotlight: Nursing Grad Student Prepares for Career in Academia

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (May 13, 2022) Ralston Lockett recognizes that research provides opportunities to make a difference. The Houston, Texas native is part of the Faculty Research & Innovation for Scholarly Excellence (RISE) program. RISE enables faculty researchers to expand and sustain their research through external grants and contracts while mentoring students to become the next generation [...]

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 [...]

PVAMU’s Research & Innovation Week 2022: A Next-level Experience

Prairie View A&M University’s (PVAMU) Division of Research & Innovation (R&I) successfully hosted the momentous “2022 Research & Innovation Week” from April 4th – 8th with nearly 30 events that almost 700 people attended. The all-day and week-long programming focused on undergraduate student research, international student research interactions, graduate student research, faculty research and inter-institutional [...]

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) [...]