Prairie View A&M University was awarded a $399,742 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Human Resource Development under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076). The grant will fund the Targeted Infusion Project to infuse virtual reality and Industry 4.0 technologies into the university's design and manufacturing laboratory to create a student-centered learning experience from September 2021 through August 2024. The project aims to enhance STEM education and ensure...
This $300,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports research at Prairie View A&M University to redesign and advance Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem architectures by integrating artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities. Specifically, the project aims to: (1) understand the fundamental mechanisms underlying IoT ecosystems, (2) enhance the programmability and deployment of such systems using a unified sensing platform,...
Prairie View A&M University was awarded a $954,605 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education under the federal STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076). The grant will support the university's Flexible Internships-Research-Education Model collaborative research project to improve access to career and educational development opportunities for talented, low-income students through September 2027. The project aims to provide internships, research...
Prairie View A&M University was awarded a $1,000,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of Integrative Activities under the Integrative Activities federal grant program (CFDA 47.083). The grant will support research and education initiatives to enhance capacity and build partnerships in next-generation wireless communications known as 6G. Specifically, Prairie View A&M University will collaborate with Texas Southern University and the University of Houston on...
This $399,998 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will enhance the undergraduate engineering curriculum at Southern University and A&M College, a historically black university in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The funding will enable the integration of emerging technologies like the Internet of Things, renewable energy, and artificial intelligence into the electrical engineering program through strategic industry partnerships. The...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $600,482 Project Grant to Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA #47.083). This 3-year project, starting on September 1, 2023, will focus on increasing engineering education research at PVAMU, an HBCU that graduates a high number of Black engineers, using mixed reality (MR) technology as an active learning tool. The project aims to create MR-based instructional environments that provide...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program, formerly known as Education and Human Resources, provides $160,000 to Prairie View A&M University to develop online artificial intelligence-enhanced personalized adaptive learning tools. The tools aim to improve engineering students' programming skills at Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Specifically, the University will create a series of online programming modules, use deep reinforcement learning...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $398,946 Project Grant to North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T) under the STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) program (CFDA 47.076). The grant supports the development, implementation, and study of evidence-based, innovative models and approaches for improving the preparation and success of undergraduate students at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in pursuing STEM graduate...
This $1,000,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Human Resource Development will fund Prairie View A&M University's efforts to enhance cybersecurity research and education infrastructure through February 2026. Specifically, the university will develop a new graduate program in cybersecurity that complements existing capacity building efforts. This will be accomplished by creating novel security architectures, training experts across hardware, software and...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) federal grant award under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $493,736 to Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU), a Historically Black College/University (HBCU), to acquire a NVIDIA DGX H100 GPU server and three Dell AI-ready workstations. This equipment will support research and education in the emerging field of generative artificial intelligence (AI), enabling more efficient big data processing, predictive analysis, and advancements in...