Education
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that St. Jude Children's Research Hospital will receive a grant of $432,000 from the National Cancer Institute for pediatric oncology education.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) will receive a $385,000 grant from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communications Disorders for biological research on deafness.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) will receive a grant of $270,000 for a project entitled "From High School to Health Care: Lab and Data Science Pathways for Success" from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen will host the renaming ceremony of the Odell Horton Federal Building on Monday, July 25. News media representatives are welcome to attend.
What: The renaming of the Memphis federal building to honor the late U.S. District Judge Odell Horton
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that Southwest Tennessee Community College will receive a grant of $2,673,526 and Baptist Memorial College of Health Sciences will receive a grant of $43,244 from the U.S. Department of Education's Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), who introduced the Multiple Substance Impaired Driving Prevention Act and succeeded in getting it signed into law as part of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, today received the Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility (Responsibility.org) 2021 Leadership Award. This award is presented to a select few Members of Congress for their leadership in the fight against impaired driving and underage drinking.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today spoke at the Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands legislative hearing, advocating his Evaluating Lynching Locations (ELL) for National Park Sites Act, which would direct the National Park Service to study lynching sites within 100 miles of Memphis for possible inclusion in our park system. The bill is named after Mr. Ell Persons, who lived near the site of where the decapitated body of a 16- year-old white girl was found in the outskirts of Memphis in 1917.
Education is a priority for families in the Ninth District. I am honored to represent the district's many schools, enrichment centers, and institutions of higher education. Education has been one of the focal points of my career, and I believe everyone should have access to a quality education.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that St. Jude Children's Research Hospital will receive a grant of $500,500 and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) will receive a grant of $308,000, both to study tauopathies. The grants are from the National Institute on Aging. Tauopathies are a group of progressive neurodegenerative disorders defined by the presence of tau protein aggregates in the brain.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) will receive a grant of $999,861 for nursing education, practice, quality and retention from the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of U.S. Health Resources and Services.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement: