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������ Alumna, Allison Brager, Ph.D., is pursuing her lifelong dream to become an astronaut.

Brager, who is a major in the U.S. Army stationed at Fort Knox, Kentucky, has been in the application process for two years in hopes of becoming an astronaut can

A Northeast Ohio native, Brager received her Ph.D. in ������’s Department of Biological Sciences, in neuroscience and physiology.

Brager recently was by WEWS Channel 5 in Cleveland, in which she credited her professors and mentors at ������ for pushing her to succeed.

“I was doing very high risk, high reward science there and was working with some of the best experts in the world and my particular field," Brager told WEWS. "And they really pushed me to not only be the best scientist but the best communicator, the best writer, the best teacher.”