Cohen Announces More Than $80,000 for University of Memphis Research Project

[WASHINGTON, DC] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) announced today that the University of Memphis has been awarded an $83,289 research grant that will help students obtain real-world field and laboratory experience. The funding will be used by the University to conduct research necessary to create more realistic simulations of North American climate variability.

“The students at the University of Memphis are one of our city’s greatest resources,” said Congressman Cohen. “Today’s funding will help ensure that they can continue to receive real-world, hands-on experience performing important research.”

Today’s grant, awarded through the National Science Foundation’s Paleoclimate Program, supports a collaborative research project involving researchers at the University of Memphis, the University of Arkansas, NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, and the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University.