PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (Oct. 16, 2023) – In a resounding victory for nutritional science, a team of researchers at Prairie View A&M University has secured a generous $600,000 grant from the United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture. This funding marks a significant milestone in the battle against worldwide micronutrient deficiencies [...]
Like every year since the founding of the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in 1945, October 16 marks World Food Day. This year's theme is 'Water is life, water is food. Leave no one behind.' The 2023 World Food Day highlights the dilemma of 2.4 billion people in water-stressed countries and 600 million dependent [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (Oct. 12, 2023) – All the roads Aruna Weerasooriya, Ph.D., took on his career path led him to Prairie View A&M University’s College of Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources. A lifelong researcher, the professor and chair of plant and environmental sciences' desire to find new species and life in areas barely uncovered [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (Sept. 22, 2023) — Scientists and agriculturalists started cultivating grain thousands of years ago, and society hasn’t stopped finding uses for it since. It’s a culinary staple the world over, a core component of animal feed, and it’s even become critical to bioenergy production. However, some experts say the resource is being [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (Sept. 18, 2023) – Prairie View A&M University’s College of Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources (CAFNR) has successfully lobbied for the state of Texas to match the amount of funding CAFNR receives from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture. The “Ag match” will help the College further its mission to enhance lives [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (Sept. 13, 2023) – Since 2017, nearly 500 PVAMU students have traveled internationally, excluding 2020-2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Most recently, 47 first-year study abroad students embarked on uncharted waters in a place that’s lovingly called the “Rock,” a.k.a. Jamaica, to become exposed to a new area, gain knowledge, develop socially [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (Sept. 1, 2023) - For Prairie View A&M University’s College of Agriculture and Human Sciences, the fall semester brings a new degree program and a new name. The Master of Science in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences (NRES) has enrolled its first students, and starting Sept. 1, the CAHS will be officially [...]
Prairie View A&M University Professor Ali Fares, Ph.D., had a busy childhood growing up in a small village in Tunisia just ten miles from the Mediterranean coast. Between looking after the family’s cows and lambs, irrigating their crops, and helping out at his father’s convenience store, there was no time for playing. However, the [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (July 20, 2023) - To boost recruitment efforts and student interest in livestock production and management, researchers from Prairie View A&M University and Texas A&M University are partnering on a project that will offer an “Experiential Approach to Beef Cattle Production Feedlots for Undergraduate Students.” The United States Department of Agriculture’s National [...]
Every year, the Northern Hemisphere region of the Atlantic Ocean embraces the annual hurricane season that officially starts on June 1 and ends on November 30. This period has been adopted by convention; it’s when most tropical cyclogenesis occurs in the Atlantic. Though the formation of subtropical or tropical cyclones is possible at any time [...]
