Education
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the National Park Service (NPS) will provide grants to two Memphis-area projects as part of its Lower Mississippi Delta Initiative. One grant, for $3,801, will support a historic marker near the site of the 1911 lynching of Pat Crump “to bring public awareness to racial terror lynchings in Shelby County,” according to the NPS statement.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the University of Memphis will receive a grant of $1,400,393 for a project promoting Black wealth advancement under the direction of Management Professor Kurt Kraiger from the U.S. Department of Commerce.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that Methodist LeBonheur Community Outreach will receive a Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs grant of $900,000 for strategies to support youths exposed to violence.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced the Shelby County Board of Education will receive a $1 million grant from the Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention to enhance the capacity of schools to address youth violence.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), who met with Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs leaders last week to discuss crime in Memphis, today announced a $175,502 grant to the University of Tennessee to strengthen the medical examiner-coroner system.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that Christian Brothers University will receive a $749,877 grant from the National Science Foundation to help it retain promising engineering and computer science students.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe examines human rights and the war in Ukraine
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), Co-Chairman of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, also known as the Helsinki Commission, today spoke at a virtual hearing of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE-PA) about his new role as the assembly’s special representative for political prisoners.
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) will receive a $507,693 grant for ethanol research involving the arteries and brain from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
“I am always pleased to see scientific research investments in our Memphis medical school. The research that this supports will improve health outcomes and potentially save lives.”
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MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that Porter-Leath Inc. will receive a $2,155,713 grant from the Administration for Children and Families Office of Head Start to operate its Early Head Start programs in Shelby County.
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that Porter-Leath Inc. will receive a $1,340,187 grant from the Administration for Children and Families Office of Head Start to operate its Head Start Programs in Shelby County.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement: