Sultana (l) and Cole (r) PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (Nov. 22, 2024) – Anisa Cole, a junior biology major at Prairie View A&M University, is breaking new ground in medical research. Through the University’s Faculty Research and Innovation for Scholarly Excellence (RISE) Program, she is working alongside Dr. Naznin Sultana, a clinical associate professor, [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (Dec. 12, 2023) – Call it a collaboration of groundbreaking proportions. The Texas Undergraduate Medical Academy was established in 2004 and represents the partnership between Prairie View A&M University and Texas A&M Health Science Center School of Medicine. The prestigious program attracts students interested in careers as physicians, dentists, veterinarians, and pharmacists. [...]
Kiren "Cody" Johnson Kiren “Cody” Johnson Hometown: Cypress, Texas Degree: Bachelor of Science in Chemistry with a Biomedical Concentration Are you a first-generation college student? If so, what does that mean to you? I am, and it means the absolute world to me to be at the forefront of education for my family. [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (July 6, 2023) – Prairie View A&M University students are learning, alongside other students from institutions across Texas, how to make public health information technology more fair, inclusive and equitable. The ultimate goal of public health information technology, also known as public health informatics, is to use information, computer science and technology [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (March 23, 2023) - Three Prairie View A&M University students were recently announced as members of AT&T’s Dream in Black's second class of 25 Rising Future Makers: Cyrai Young, Jocelynn "Poppy" Johnson and Justin Lamar Collins. The program celebrates young, black “culture shapers, influencers, activists and entrepreneurs” making a difference in their [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (Oct. 26, 2022) - The Miss Prairie View A&M University Scholarship Pageant is much more than a beauty or popularity contest. Just look at the legacy of queens since 1932: they embody Grace. Poise. Class. Intellect. Leadership. Miss Deloris Francis, the 36th Miss PVAMU, being crowned by PVAMU President A.I. Thomas [...]
FROM LEFT TO RIGHT, the PVAMU faculty team: Drs. Max Winshell Fontus, Sharon McWhinney, Naznin Sultana, Seungchan Kim, Noushin Ghaffari, and Andrea McDonald. PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (October 28, 2021) – Efforts to increase diversity among future public health information technology professionals received a $10 million boost with the awarding of a significant cooperative [...]
Max Winshell Fontus, Ph.D. PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (September 29, 2021) - To students anywhere aspiring to attend dental or optometry school: Max Winshell Fontus, Ph.D., has walked the same road as you. He studied for, took, and eventually passed the standardized tests you face now, one of the daunting hurdles standing between many [...]
There are growing concerns across the country about the Delta COVID variant. Dr. Dennis Daniels, director and professor of Prairie View A&M University's Texas Undergraduate Medical Academy, shares his thoughts with Fox 7 Austin.
Pictured from left to right: Lance McCoy, Jalyce Taylor and Charles Anugwom PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (June 4, 2021) - When the University of Houston College of Medicine (UH COM) welcomed its first class almost a year ago, three Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) alumni were included in the inaugural cohort of 30 students. [...]
