Pitch & Ponder

Join us for Pitch & Ponder! A stress-free, low stakes open mic night for founders and creatives to share their ideas, practice their personal or business pitches, and connect with other like-minded go-getters. This is a wonderful opportunity for entrepreneurs to pitch their idea, network, and gain valuable and constructive feedback.

This event will take place in the Reactor (rm 150) at the DI Hub.
Food and drinks will be available to all attendees!
If you have any questions, please email launchnet@kent.edu.

Elevator Pitch

Students will have 90 seconds to share a personal or business pitch to an audience and group of judges for the chance to win funds from a prize pool of $2,000! This event features local entrepreneurs and experts as the judges and has launched the business ventures of Kent State students.

Flash Focus: LaTaesia Snyder

Flash Focus: LaTaesia Snyder

Welcome to Flash Focus! In this series, we introduce you to fascinating student Flashes from all walks of life.Meet LaTaesia Snyder, a junior criminology and justice studies major in the Department of Sociology and Criminology with a minor in pre-law from Akron, Ohio, who’s making the most of her opportunities to learn about the American justice system.Snyder recently began her fall semester as part of the Kent State University Columbus Program in State Issues, a study-away program that allows students to study policy, explore politics and meet Ohio representatives.“The Columbus program has ju...

Dr. Rafaela Takeshita (Department of Anthropology) and Dr. Wilson Chung (Department of Biological Sciences) publish new paper on stress hormones being predictors of human epigenetic age
College of Arts & Sciences

Cortisol, DHEAS, and the cortisol/DHEAS ratio as predictors of epigenetic age accelerationRafaela S. C. Takeshita, Amber T. Nguyen, Anthony P. Auger & Wilson C. J. Chung Cortisol has been widely used as biomarker of stress and aging, but confounding effects and disruption of the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis can lead to misinterpretation of results based on a single measurement. A possible alternative is the co-measurement of cortisol and the adrenal hormone dehydroepiandrosterone-sulfate (DHEAS), a glucocorticoid antagonist that modulates the stress response. Using data from 96...

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