PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (February 14, 2025) — In January, Magesh Rajan, Ph.D., Vice President of Research & Innovation at Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU), has been reelected to the board of directors for the Texas Space Grant Consortium. Dr. Rajan joins seven other Executive Committee members elected statewide from participating universities across the United States. [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (February 14, 2025) – Peter Ampim, Ph.D., has been awarded over $66,000 in grant funding by the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service through the USDA-National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Peter Ampim, Ph.D. Ampim is an Associate Professor in the College of Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources at Department of Agriculture [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (February 11, 2025) — As he prepares to graduate with a degree in mechanical engineering from Prairie View A&M University, Christopher L. Houston is gaining recognition for his academic excellence and groundbreaking research on hydrogen embrittlement and its applications. Houston, a senior, from Houston, Tx, has immersed himself in the RISE Program [...]
Gloria Regisford, Ph.D. PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (February 11, 2025) — A multidisciplinary team from Texas A&M University (TAMU) and Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) has secured a $2.9 million NIH collaboration grant to launch an Institutional Research and Academic Career Development program (IRACDA). The program at PVAMU is led by Gloria Regisford, Ph.D., [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (February 10, 2025) — Kevin Storr, an associate professor of physics in the Brailsford College of Arts and Sciences at Prairie View A&M University, has secured a $40,000 grant from Clarkson Aerospace Corporation through the Department of Defense’s Air Force Materiel Command to study the thermal properties of two-dimensional materials under extreme [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (February 10, 2025) — Sunil Karna, Ph.D., an assistant professor of physics at Prairie View A&M University, has been awarded nearly $700,000 in grant funding from the Department of Defense’s U.S. Army Contracting Command–Aberdeen Proving Ground to acquire advanced research equipment for material science education and research. Sunil Karna, Ph.D. [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (February 6, 2025) – Ram Ray, Ph.D., P.E., a leading researcher and professor in the College of Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources at Prairie View A&M University, has been awarded more than $80,000 in grant funding by Texas A&M AgriLife Research through the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture. The grant [...]
Shahin Shafiee, Ph.D. PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (February 3, 2025) — Shahin Shafiee, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Prairie View A&M University, has been awarded a nearly $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to advance research on nanofluid transport phenomena using machine learning. The integrated research [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (January 23, 2025) — Shield Lin, Ph.D., a professor of mechanical engineering at Prairie View A&M University’s College of Engineering, has been awarded a grant of nearly $20,000 from the CACI Technolgy for National Security. through NASA’s Space Center. The funding will support Lin’s efforts to advance the Trick Simulation Environment (Trick [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (January 16, 2025) – Suxia Cui, Ph.D., a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Prairie View A&M University, has secured nearly $150,000 in grant funding from Texas A&M University System through the State of Texas – State Appropriations to strengthen the Semiconductor Workforce Pipeline for underrepresented communities. Shuza Binzaid, Ph.D., and Abburi [...]
