HOUSTON — Two graduates of Prairie View A&M are shifting the face of urban farming while also addressing food insecurity in one of Houston’s low-income neighborhoods. The Fresh Houwse Grocery located in the Sunnyside community is now open and the two are making it a point to provide healthy food options in places that are typically out [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (Nov. 22, 2022) - Launching amid a global pandemic, Prairie View A&M University’s Wellness in Houston project (formerly Healthy Houston Initiative) has built a foundation in Harris County, delivering educational workshops, programs, and other events that focus on health, wellness, finance, nutrition and agriculture. These promote long-term healthy lifestyle changes and behaviors [...]
As humans come face-to-face with the effects of climate change, some of the hardest hit communities are also those with the fewest resources for mitigating climate-related hazards.
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (Sept. 27, 2022) - Prairie View A&M University and University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff recently held the 2nd Annual Sustainable Forestry and African American Land Retention Joint Regional Conference. The purpose was to provide sustainable forestry and land retention information to farmers, ranchers and landowners with property located in the States [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (September 19, 2022) - What started as a simple conversation between professor Richard Griffin, Ph.D., and his student, Robert Lewis III, has turned into a bamboo garden creation that will grace the Gov. Bill and Vara Daniel Farm and Ranch at Prairie View A&M University for decades to come.
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (August 16, 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 funding award. While the solution is not simple, the principal investigator of the new [...]
WICHITA FALLS, Texas (KAUZ) - Joey Moore, a Wichita Falls 4-H member, was awarded a dairy goat through Prairie View A&M University’s Goat Give-Away program. Joey and his furry friend, named Cindy Lou, will now begin their 4-H Dairy Goat Project.
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (KTRK) -- Texas' extreme drought conditions are something we've been talking about for weeks. It's bad, and it's starting to impact almost every aspect of our daily life from the grocery store to agriculture. On Thursday, ABC13's Erica Simon went to Waller County to see how the weather is impacting local farmers.
2021 Hurricane Nicholas, September 13, 2021, before making landfall in Galveston, Texas. Courtesy: NOAA/NESDIS/STAR GOES-East Each year, hundreds of millions of people in the Atlantic Ocean basin, especially the Caribbean and North America, eagerly await the hurricane season prediction. In the United States, the Atlantic Hurricane Season starts June 1 and ends November [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (May 16, 2022) - Nine-hundred and sixty-four. Prairie View A&M University’s second-largest graduating class of all time. Here is a look back at PVAMU’s monumental 140th Spring Commencement Convocation, held on Saturday, May 14, 2022. The entire ceremony can be viewed on PVAMU's official YouTube channel, www.youtube.com/pvamu. Visit this link to read [...]
