PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (September 20, 2022) - In August of 2022, the DoD Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority‐Serving Institutions (HBCU/MSI) Science Program announced its award recipients. Merlyn X. Pulikkathara, Ph.D., assistant professor in the department of chemistry and physics at Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU), was one of 60 university researchers at 43 [...]
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 (June 17, 2022) The most impactful lesson Miranda Sharp, a recent graduate of the Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) School of Architecture, learned as a participant in the Faculty RISE-Graduate Research Program (RISE) is to voice your ideas without fear. Sharp, who hails from Bossier City, Louisiana, earned a master’s degree in [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (June 14, 2022) Water security expert Ali Fares is taking steps to ensure minority farmers benefit from precision agriculture (P.A.) technology advancements. Fares is an endowed professor of water security and water-energy-food nexus at Prairie View A&M University. He recently earned $750,000 from the USDA-National Institute of Food and Agriculture to build [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 (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 [...]
