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 [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (January 13, 2025) — Rahmat Attaie, Ph.D., an Associate Professor and research scientist at Prairie View A&M University, has been awarded nearly $300,000 in grant funding from the National Competitive program of the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture to explore innovative approaches to combat obesity. The research team includes co-principal [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (January 8, 2025) – Phyllis Earles, head of Special Collections and Archives at the John B. Coleman Library at Prairie View A&M University, and Marco T. Robinson, Ph.D., have been awarded a $50,000 grant from the University of California-Irvine, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The project will involve collecting and [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (January 8, 2025) — Clarence Bunch, Ph.D., Project Manager III at Prairie View A&M University’s Cooperative Agricultural Research Center (CARC) Small Farm Institute, has secured a $55,000 grant from the University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc., through the USDA-National Institute of Food and Agriculture. The grant will support sustainable agriculture research and [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (December 17, 2024) – Noushin Ghaffari, Ph.D., a tenure-track assistant professor in the Roy G. Perry College of Engineering at Prairie View A&M University, has been awarded a $600,000 grant from Texas Southern University through the Department of Defense Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Lin Li, Ph.D., an associate professor at [...]
Prairie View, Texas (December 13, 2024) – The Division of Research & Innovation (R&I) at Prairie View A&M University hosted its Fall 2024 Cording Ceremony on Thursday, Dec. 12, bringing together student researchers and their faculty mentors to celebrate the achievements of graduating participants in the Faculty-Research and Innovation Success and Excellence (Faculty-RISE) program. The [...]
