Science and Technology
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, today discussed the need for an increased focus on environmental justice by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and greater efforts to restore the Mississippi River at a Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment hearing to consider priorities for the 2022 Water Resources Development Act (WRDA).
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) applauded today's House passage of the America Creating Opportunities for Manufacturing, Pre-Eminence in Technology, and Economic Strength (COMPETES) Act that will be considered on Friday. The bill contains two amendments he offered with Republican colleagues.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) applauded today's House passage of two amendments he authored that will be part of the America Creating Opportunities for Manufacturing, Pre-Eminence in Technology, and Economic Strength (COMPETES) Act that will be considered on Friday.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, today questioned expert witnesses at a hearing entitled "Respecting Artists with the American Music Fairness Act."
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that St. Jude Children's Research Hospital will receive a $455,000 grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for research entitled "Bioactivities of pneumococcal cell wall in neuropathogenesis."
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the University of Memphis will receive a grant of $3,806,815 from the National Science Foundation for scholarships to train a regional cybersecurity workforce. The project, "CyberCorps Scholarship for Service: Developing the Cybersecurity Workforce in West Tennessee, Mississippi, and Arkansas," is under the direction of Department of Computer Science Assistant Professor Kan Yang.
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the University of Tennessee Health Science Center will receive a $231,699 grant from the National Cancer Institute for a project entitled "Targeting defective spliceosomal pathway in myeloid malignancies."
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the University of Memphis will receive a $198,766 grant from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "ERI: Formation Mechanisms and Modeling of Wake Meandering in Wind Farms." The work is under the director of Dr. Daniel Foti in the Mechanical Engineering Department.
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that St. Jude Children's Research Hospital will be receiving a $455,000 grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for a project titled "Inflammatory Caspases in Innate Immunity and Inflammation."
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a vocal critic of the Tennessee Valley Authority's relationship with Memphis, its largest customer, today applauded efforts by the Chairs of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and three of its Subcommittees to get answers about the federally chartered company's ratepayer energy burden and apparent resistance to addressing renewable energy and climate change, an issue he has repeatedly raised.