Over the years, LaunchNET Kent State has become synonymous with entrepreneurship within the university community. The organization helps students, faculty and staff, and alumni transform ideas into viable businesses, innovative collaborations and successful projects. In the spring of 2023, with support from the Burton D. Morgan Foundation, LaunchNET was able to extend its microgrant programming to provide financial resources for alumni business owners. The organization offered grants of $500-$3,000 to alumni entrepreneurs with Ohio-based, for-profit businesses that had annual gross revenues of...

Musicians tune their instruments and “warm up” before the performance. In their first concert of the semester, the Kent State University Orchestra presented "Afternoon with the Orchestra," and performed compositions created in a student composers workshop.  Kent State student musicians in a studio class with Adam Roberts, Ph.D., participated in a one-week in which they created original musical compositions.  Jacob Schnitzer invites the student musicians to take a bow at the conclusion of each composition.  Roberts is an assistant professor teac...

 Names encapsulate who we are, the identity we hold and how others see us. But what if the name you were given doesn’t feel like “you?” This is the case for some transgender or gender-diverse people and those whose chosen name does not match their legal or birth name. This is one of the reasons why Kent State University’s LGBTQ+ Center and Student Legal Services teamed up to host the first Name Change Clinic on Jan. 30 to support students in ways that reduce some of the obstacles on their way to success.  Names have a huge effect on people and their mental state. One study ...