Education
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) tonight commended FedEx founder Fred Smith and Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Taylor Branch and Isabel Wilkerson on being named the 2022 winners of the National Civil Rights Museum's prestigious Freedom Award.
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MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today applauded President Biden's decision to cancel up to $10,000 for most student borrowers, and up to $20,000 for Pell grant recipients, as he met a campaign pledge to ease the burden on low- and moderate-income borrowers facing higher costs and pandemic disruptions.
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MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) will receive a $315,415 grant from the National Institute on Aging for research on functional genetic analysis of epigenetic age acceleration and the regulatory landscape of the methylome.
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MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) will receive a $1,050,313 grant from the National Cancer Institute for research determining the contribution of microbial-derived metabolites to protective immunity in obesity-driven cancer risk.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.