Tennessee

MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that Dextrous Robotics Inc. has received a $999,746 grant from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Automated Perception for Robotic Chopsticks Manipulating Small and Large Objects in Constrained Spaces.”

Congressman Cohen made the following statement:

MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital will receive a grant of $416,325 from the National Cancer Institute for research involving pediatric myeloid leukemia.

Congressman Cohen made the following statement:

Helsinki Commission hearing on Vladimir Kara-Murza: Putin’s Personal Prisoner

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), a senior member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, today questioned Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg at an oversight hearing.

Suggests his Constitutional amendment limiting the pardon power would end abuses

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that the Department of Interior’s Migratory Bird Conservation Commission has approved a North American Wetlands Conservation Act (NAWCA) grant of $1,308,567 grant to the Wolf River Conservancy to protect 1,536 acres of wetlands and adjacent uplands along the Wolf River and its tributaries.

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that the University of Memphis’ Department of Computer Science will receive a $1,115,997 grant from the National Science Foundation to acquire and operate a high-performance computing cluster across West Tennessee and Arkansas and Mississippi, improving research quality through the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and big data.

WASHINGTON – U.S. Representatives Steve Cohen (D-TN-09) and Kelly Armstrong (R-ND-At-Large), and U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and U.S.