$1.1 Million in Recovery Funds Will Help Spur Health Care and Math Research
June 4, 2009
“The University of Tennessee Health Center and the University of Memphis has been on the forefront of research projects that have the potential to vastly improve our quality of life,” Congressman Cohen said. “Most importantly, these research dollars will help to create jobs in the Ninth District and help to attract the best and brightest scientific minds to Shelby County. I was proud to support the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and am grateful that these funds are moving quickly to our district to help spur economic development.”
“The Recovery Act is the most sweeping economic package in the history of our country,” Congressman Cohen said. “A little more than one hundred days later, the Recovery Act is already at work providing essential financial relief for Shelby County’s families and businesses, creating and saving jobs, and fueling technology and infrastructure investments that will be the foundation of our economic recovery.”
The University of Tennessee Health Center was awarded two grants from the NIH totaling $620,016 -- $185,000 to study tularemia, a disease found in contaminated water or carried by infected rodents, or worse, used in biological warfare; and, $425,016 to develop a new anti-tuberculosis agent.
The Math Department at the University of Memphis was awarded a grant from the NSF totaling $495,452 to advance “graph theory” - a new branch of mathematics that has been used by the intelligence community and to create better traffic patterns.
“The Recovery Act is the most sweeping economic package in the history of our country,” Congressman Cohen said. “A little more than one hundred days later, the Recovery Act is already at work providing essential financial relief for Shelby County’s families and businesses, creating and saving jobs, and fueling technology and infrastructure investments that will be the foundation of our economic recovery.”
The University of Tennessee Health Center was awarded two grants from the NIH totaling $620,016 -- $185,000 to study tularemia, a disease found in contaminated water or carried by infected rodents, or worse, used in biological warfare; and, $425,016 to develop a new anti-tuberculosis agent.
The Math Department at the University of Memphis was awarded a grant from the NSF totaling $495,452 to advance “graph theory” - a new branch of mathematics that has been used by the intelligence community and to create better traffic patterns.