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Professor helps win grants for post-hurricane projects
Two grant proposals prepared by Cynthia Brown, assistant professor of applied criminology, won more than $2.5 million in federal funding for projects to aid in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
The United States Department of Agriculture awarded a broadband community connect grant of $761,000 to the Community Development Leagues of America in French Camp, Miss.
A $1,750,700 Medicaid Transformation Grant was awarded to an emergency-related fraud detection project titled “A Healthy Mississippi – Moving Forward Enhancing Program Integrity.”
Brown (pictured above right) prepared the proposals while working in Mississippi during the summer months to help with the reconstruction after Katrina. She had worked as an attorney in private practice in Mississippi and Florida before being forced to relocate after Katrina.
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