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KHOU’s Great Day Houston: Fort Bend County Libraries to Host Financial Literacy Series for Teens

PVAMU's Cooperative Extension members Roosevelt Weeks and Janelle Johnson share resources to help your teens stay ahead, build strong financial habits, and avoid future money problems.

PVAMUā€™s new Foodscaping venture targets importance of agriculture in daily living

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (Jan. 3, 2025) - Food insecurity remains a pressing issue, with reports revealing that 1 in 5 families in the greater Houston area struggle to access sufficient food. This challenge extends to college campuses nationwide, where 40% of students regularly face difficulties in obtaining healthy, nutritious meals, according to the World Health [...]

Two at PVAMU honored for ā€˜significant contributionsā€™ to their fields, state of Texas

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (Nov. 27, 2024) ā€“ Two members of Prairie View A&M University have been honored by The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents. Ali Fares, Ph.D. The board, which designated 18 faculty members and 13 professionals within the A&M System as Regents Professors and Regents Fellows for their exemplary performance [...]

PVAMU researcher among top global scholars in engineering, environmental science

Ali Fares, Ph.D. PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (Nov. 20, 2024) - Dr. Ali Fares, an endowed professor of water security at Prairie View A&M University, is ranked among the top global scholars in engineering and environmental science, according to ScholarGPS, an analytics site that tracks and ranks researchers and institutions worldwide. Based on ScholarGPS [...]

Research at PVAMU Changes the World

Astronaut Neil Armstrong once said, ā€œResearch is creating new knowledge.ā€ Astronomer Carl Sagan stated, ā€œSomewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.ā€ At Prairie View A&M University, there are nearly two dozenĀ locationsĀ where the limits of knowledge and innovation are being pushed through cutting-edge research.

Thirteen faculty teams from PVAMU, Texas A&M receive PRISE grants

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (Sept. 6, 2024) - Prairie View A&M University and Texas A&M University announced the awarding of $520,000 to 13 teams of faculty investigators as part of the 2024 Panther Research and Innovation for Scholarly Excellence grant program. Now in its fourth year, this initiative continues to foster collaborative research addressing complex national [...]

PVAMU celebrates recipients of 2024 Faculty and Staff Awards

PVAMU President Tomikia P. LeGrande (left) and Harriette Howard-Lee Block (right), Associate Professor of Biology and winner of the 2024 Presidential Award for Outstanding Achievement as a Faculty Member PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (Aug. 29, 2024) - The theme of Prairie View A&M Universityā€™s 2024 Faculty and Staff Conference was ā€œA Journey to [...]

Opinion| Weathering the Storm: Reflections and Preparations for the 2024 Hurricane Season

As the 2024 hurricane season begins with concerns over projected activity, Tropical Storm Alberto swiftly impacted South Texas and Central Mexico. The storm's early arrival underscores the unpredictability of these weather events. Reflecting on the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season, which was initially expected to be average, it unexpectedly became the fourth-most active on record, featuring [...]

Food Republic: Should You Be Buying Baby Carrots?

America has a love-hate relationship with baby carrots. Google them and you'll discover pages of rants about how fake and unnatural they are, down to their suspiciously uniform shape and size. But go to the produce section of any grocery store and you'll see hundreds of bags of them. And good luck going to any [...]

PVAMUā€™s new Agletics initiative combines agriculture, athletics

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (June 5, 2024) - Prairie View A&M University student-athlete Myles McHaney IV ā€™24 recently earned a masterā€™s degree in juvenile justice. As the first Agletics ambassador, the PVAMU alumnus is serious about his faith, fitness, and football. His demeanor, achievements, and future goals made him an obvious choice to represent the new [...]