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Swinehart family gift hopes to spark curiosity in future generations

Fiscal 2026 federal funding commitment supports ����APP’s ongoing and wide-ranging collaboration with NASA Glenn Research Center

Morton Brooks (CIT ’41) was a mathematically gifted student from an underprivileged family in 1930s Cleveland. Despite his talent and determination, the financial challenges of the Great Depression made higher education seem out of reach. Encouraged by his high school advisor to pursue…

Halle Tecco (CWR ’06) is the co-founder of Cofertility, a startup working to make egg freezing and fertility care more accessible. Earlier in her career, Tecco launched Natalist, a women’s health products company that was acquired in 2021, broadening the availability of at-home fertility and…

How hands-on learning shaped a founder’s approach

For deep-space missions to the moon, Mars and beyond, one deceptively simple question drives some of NASA’s most complex engineering challenges: How do you keep enough fuel cold—and stable—long enough to use it? That problem is at the center of ongoing zero boil-off tank (ZBOT) research, which…

Northeast Ohio was in the national spotlight this week (Jan. 21-22) as regional leaders hosted a site visit from the National Science Foundation (NSF) review team evaluating NEO-SMART, a regionally led, execution-ready collaborative that is a finalist in the NSF’s Regional Innovation Engines…

Somewhere between deciphering a plan's “out-of-pocket maximum” and Googling whether your doctor is “in-network,” buying health insurance on healthcare.gov feels less like shopping and more like solving a puzzle designed by someone who doesn't want you to win. Two ����APP…

����APP faculty members Robert Brown and Jesse Wainright have been named fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), the highest professional distinction awarded solely to inventors, in honor of their innovations in physics and electrochemical engineering,…

Research addresses major barrier to long-term success of brain-computer interfaces