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Not Daunted by Failure but Motivated by Faith: PVAMU Junior Named AT&T Rising Future Maker

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (Dec. 19, 2024) ā€“ Prairie View A&M University junior Jaquavous Doucette is familiar with failure: college after college rejected his applications, even PVAMU, at first.Now, Doucette has been recognized as a Rising Future Maker for his positive community impact. AT&T has named 25 students from Historically Black Colleges & Universities across the [...]

PVAMU’s Top 15 Moments of 2024

2024 was a year to remember at Prairie View A&M Universityā€”one filled with hits that struck all the right chords. It was marked by groundbreaking achievements, inspiring milestones and transformative initiatives. From welcoming record-breaking numbers in enrollment and doctoral graduates to unveiling innovative spaces like the Solar Lab, and celebrating remarkable faculty, staff and students, [...]

PVAMUā€™s new teacher residency program to boost teacher diversity, transform under-resourced classrooms

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (Nov. 14, 2024) - Prairie View A&M University is launching an ambitious teacher residency initiative to address a critical need: providing quality educators in hard-to-staff schools while increasing teacher diversity. Through the Panther Teacher Education Residency Model (pantherTERM), PVAMU is set to prepare a new wave of educators ready to make a [...]

PVAMU awarded $8 million for cutting-edge AI, big data research project

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (Oct. 30, 2024) - The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded Prairie View A&M University an $8 million grant for a new research project focused on advanced data analysis and artificial intelligence. The project, titled ā€œCREDIT+: Advancing Data Analysis for Mission-Critical Applications in the Era of Artificial Intelligence,ā€ is led by Dr. [...]

Prairie View A&M, Texas A&M awarded $2.9 million for biomedical research training program

A multidisciplinary team fromĀ Prairie View A&M UniversityĀ (PVAMU) andĀ Texas A&M UniversityĀ recently received funding from theĀ National Institutes of HealthĀ (NIH) to administer an Institutional Research and Academic Career Development program (IRACDA). The $2.9 million IRACDA award is intended to support collaboration between research-intensive colleges and universities and historically mission-driven institutions that educate underrepresented groups. IRACDA programs train biomedical [...]

PVAMU awarded $1.2M grant to expand, diversify educational diagnosticians in Texas

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (Oct. 16, 2024) - Prairie View A&M University has been awarded a $1,243,372 grant from the U.S. Department of Educationā€™s Office of Special Education Programs to launch Project iSPREAD-ED: Innovative and Sustainable Practices for Recruiting, Educating, and Diversifying Educational Diagnosticians. The initiative is aimed at increasing the number of highly qualified, culturally [...]

Q&A on mental health with PVAMUā€™s Visiting Scholar Dr. LaDrea Ingram

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (Oct. 11, 2024) ā€“ Fresh on the heels of World Mental Health Day, Prairie View A&M University visiting scholar Dr. LaDrea Ingram advises practicing self-care and self-love. Currently, Dr. LaDrea Ingram is an associate research scientist in public health at Yale School of Public Health. She joined PVAMU's School of Public and [...]

New research funding at PVAMU to support study of Wyatt Chapel Community Cemetery

Photography by Nicholas Hunt, Office for Marketing and Communications PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (Sept. 24, 2024) ā€“ Thanks to a $20,000 award from The Summerlee Foundation, the History Department at Prairie View A&M University has begun a comprehensive historical and archaeological study of Wyatt Chapel Community Cemetery, located behind PVAMU. The study seeks to [...]

PVAMU receives federal grant to help strengthen nationā€™s teacher diversity

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (Sept. 19, 2024) - The U.S. Department of Education has awarded Prairie View A&M University a prestigious grant under the Augustus F. Hawkins Centers of Excellence Program, part of a national initiative to support Historically Black Colleges and Universities in producing well-prepared, diverse educators for underserved communities. PVAMU, alongside three other HBCUs, [...]

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