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Prairie View A&M University Takes Top Awards at 12th Annual TAMUS Pathways Research Symposium
Industry Day Sets Tone for PVAMU Research Partnerships in the Business Community
Prairie View A&M University students were awarded top honors at the 12th Annual TAMUS Pathways Research Symposium hosted by the Texas A&M Corpus Christi Business School in Corpus Christi. The symposium enables students to showcase their research projects and network with other schools, faculty members, and students within the TAMU System.
Last spring, Prairie View A&M University hosted its first annual Industry Day, an event held in partnership with The Texas A&M University System.
PVAMU truly shined in the Education Doctoral research category, sweeping the competition to finish in first, second and third place. Research partners Mathis Vairez and Jerrel Moore took home the first place prize for their in-depth research project, The Development and Validation of the Grit Trigger Scale. Second Place Doctoral finalist, Rebecca Faison, wowed judges with her research project, The Examination of Commercialization of Research Portfolios at Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Doctoral Candidate Jasmine Williams placed third in the category with her research, Homeschoolers: Experiences of AfricanAmerican Male Students, A Phenomenological Study. In addition to sweeping the Doctoral Education category, Prairie View also won the top honor in the Doctoral Engineering category. Ashley S. Kelsey, an electrical engineering Ph.D. student, focused her research in communication and signal processing — specifically in cyber security. Her topic, A Discrete Wavelet Transform Approach for Enhanced Security in Image Steganography, showcased her research in data encryption and hiding data/information in images. o
Industry Day proved to be a showcase of the broad range and research capabilities of PVAMU. Selected researchers provided a glimpse into their current projects that have potential for commercialization. Industry participants at the one-day event included representatives from Texas, throughout the United States and international companies. Those present included NASA, Northrup Grumman Corporation, REUSA-Wraps and Synergy Global, among others. Participants also had the opportunity to learn more about the process of moving research ideas from the laboratory to the market place from representatives of Prairie A&M University and The Texas A&M University System. John Sharp, Chancellor of The Texas A&M University System, Prairie View A&M University President Dr. George C. Wright and Col. Dennis Beal, USMC (ret), Executive Director Strategic Alliances/Programs joined the PVAMU Office of Research and Graduate Studies in supporting the vision of ensuring that PVAMU is on the forefront of becoming an emerging research institute and a significant contributor in the commercialization of research. Activities included high-level overviews of the technical services and expertise available from Prairie View A&M University and across the Texas A&M System. The research program is committed to building stronger research ties with various industry partners who are able to contribute to PVAMU while the university’s research teams provide assistance with research-related industry priorities. o
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