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. [...]
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 [...]
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 18, 2022) – Spring 2022 Commencement at Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) took on an elevated meaning for dozens of undergraduate and graduate students who have spent their time on The Hill. On Thursday, May 12, 2022, the Division of Research & Innovation held its second-ever cording ceremony to recognize nearly 30 [...]
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 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 [...]
