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Excellence in Outreach: PVAMU Receives Homeownership Education Grant

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (August 2, 2024) – Natriez "Nate" Peterson has been awarded $50,000 in grant funding by the Freddie Mac-Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation.  As the Principal Investigator, Mr. Peterson has secured a total of $125,000 in funding from Freddie Mac since 2022.  As a result, the staff conducted 57 housing-related workshops reaching 2,366 [...]

PVAMU’s Peter Ampim Leads Groundbreaking Research in Sustainable Crop Production

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (July 31, 2024) – Peter Ampim, Ph.D., has been awarded $600,000 in grant funding by the USDA-National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Ampim is an Associate Professor in the College of Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources at Department of Agriculture at Prairie View A&M University. His research focuses on sustainable and climate-smart [...]

Jeanelle Hope Awarded $150,000 NEH Grant to Enhance African American Studies at PVAMU

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (July 25, 2024) – Jeanelle Hope, Ph.D., has been awarded $150,000 in grant funding by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Hope is the Director & Associate Professor of African American Studies in the Samuel Brailsford College of Arts & Sciences at Prairie View A&M University. Farrah Cambrice, Ph.D., Marco Robinson, Ph.D., and [...]

Justin Bryant Awarded Grant for Deeper Learning Research at PVAMU

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (July 18, 2024) – Justin Bryant, Ph.D., has been awarded $35,000 in grant funding by the American Educational Research Association (AERA). Bryant is an assistant professor in the Whitlowe R. Green College of Education at Prairie View A&M University. The AERA Fellowship on the Study of Deeper Learning (SDL) offers professional development and [...]

Dr. Kinman Secures $100K USDA Grant for Innovative Meat Science Training at PVAMU

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (July 9, 2024) – Lea Ann Kinman, Ph.D., has been awarded $100,000 in grant funding by Southern University through the USDA-NIFA (United States Department of Agriculture – National Institute of Food and Agriculture). Dr. Kinman, a distinguished research scientist in Meat Science and Laboratory Services at Prairie View A&M University’s Cooperative Agricultural [...]

PVAMU’s Addo Secures Nearly $600K USDA Grant for Climate-Smart Agriculture and Enrollment Boost

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (June 25, 2024) – Kwaku Addo, Ph.D., has been awarded $598,165 in grant funding by the USDA-NIFA (United States Department of Agriculture - National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Addo is a Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Programs and Department Head in the College of Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources (CAFNR) [...]

Driving STEM Innovation: Daniel Kennebrew Secures $25K Ford Motors Grant

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (June 12, 2024) – Daniel Kennebrew, Ph.D., has been awarded $25,000 in grant funding by Ford Motors. Kennebrew is an Assistant Professor of the Practice in the College of Business at Prairie View A&M University. The grant will support scholarships for college students pursuing STEM-related career areas that support the EV and [...]

PVAMU’s Riya Das Secures NEH Grant to Edit Groundbreaking Feminist Novel

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (June 6, 2024) – Riya Das, Ph.D., has been awarded $30,000 in grant funding by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Das is an assistant professor of English in the Samuel Brailsford College of Arts and Sciences at Prairie View A&M University. The grant will significantly support the preparation of the first critical edition [...]

Dr. Harshica Fernando Secures DOE Grant to Study PAHs in Food

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (June 4, 2024) – Harshica Fernando, Ph.D., has been awarded $100,000 in grant funding by the Department of Energy-Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education. Fernando is an assistant professor of chemistry in the Samuel Brailsford College of Arts and Sciences at Prairie View A&M University. The primary goal of this research is [...]

Recognizing Excellence: R&I’s Spring Cording Ceremony Honors Student Researchers

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (May 10, 2024) – On May 9, 2024, the Division of Research & Innovation (R&I) hosted Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) student researchers and their faculty mentors at the PVAMU's Juvenile Justice Auditorium for the Spring 2024 Research & Innovation Cording Ceremony. The Cording Ceremony honors candidates for graduation who were also [...]