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PVAMU’s Ray Mentors Students in Climate-Smart Farming with USDA Grant

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 [...]

PVAMU’s Shafiee Secures $1.5M NSF Grant for Research Excellence in STEM

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 [...]

Innovating Simulations: Shield Lin Leads NASA-Supported Project

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 [...]

Cui-Led Project Aims to Advance Workforce Excellence in Semiconductor Technology

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 [...]

Excellence in Action: PVAMU’s Attaie Tackles Obesity with USDA Grant

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 [...]

PVAMU Community First: Celebrating 150 Years of Research and Service Excellence

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 [...]

Excellence in Research: R&I Honors RISE Students at Fall Ceremony

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 [...]

From Idea to Impact: ICEED Guides Innovators Toward Success

Prairie View, Texas (December 12, 2024) — The " Division of Research & Innovations’ Innovation, Commercialization, Entrepreneurship and Economic Development (ICEED) area of Prairie View A&M University hosted its “From Idea to Impact” seminar, providing a detailed roadmap for transforming innovative ideas into tangible results. The session emphasized the importance of starting with a well-defined [...]

Dr. Clarence Bunch Champions Excellence at PVAMU with Forestry Grant

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (December 6, 2024) — Clarence Bunch, Ph.D., program manager for the College of Food and Natural Resources at Prairie View A&M University's Cooperative Agricultural Research Center (CARC), has secured a $125,000 grant from the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities, Inc. Through the Sustainable Forestry and African American Land Retention (SFLR) program, [...]

Panther’s Invent 2024: A collaboration of creativity and innovation at Prairie View A&M University with Sandia National Laboratories

Panther's Invent 1st Place Winners  PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (Oct. 10, 2024) – Prairie View A&M University recently hosted Panther’s Invent 2024, an exciting competition where some of the brightest minds on campus came together to showcase their creativity and entrepreneurial skills. Competing students presented potential groundbreaking inventions and innovative business ideas to a [...]