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Raising Our Sights Ever Higher
In the two years since its public launch, the Experience Powered by Northeastern fundraising campaign has notched resounding successes. Now, the university is raising the campaign goal to an even more ambitious $1.75 billion, up from the original $1.3 billion target.
Kimberly Eddleston receives high honor for entrepreneurship teaching and research
Professor Eddleston has been inducted as a Justin G. Longenecker Fellow by the U.S. Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
Mindfulness changed her life. Now she’s changing classrooms
From personal healing to purpose, Lee Sowles, Roux Founder Residency'25, launched Kind Mind to bring mindfulness and wellbeing practices to children, teachers and families. She recently won a 2025 Women Who Empower Innovator Award.
London Campus Ecosystem Build Creates ‘Most Employable’ Grads
Entrepreneurship booms on London campus. From work experience placements in cutting-edge fields to real-world consultancy, the college’s U.K. campus prepares students for life after graduating.
Rain is a real turnoff for these smart sprinklers
Northeastern student Khushi Shah, Khoury'27, DMSB'27, turned a middle school science project into Drizzl, a smart irrigation startup fighting water waste.
Schools in India don’t teach soft skills. This entrepreneur does
Anjali Laddha, a Northeastern international business student and a 2025 Women Who Empower Innovator Award recipient, launched Degree2Destiny, an AI-driven career readiness platform, to help Indian students unlock their potential
Grant from Pivotal Ventures allows Northeastern’s CIC to expand AI and computing education nationally
Northeastern University’s Center for Inclusive Computing (CIC) is part of a $150 million commitment from Pivotal, Melinda French Gates’ organization. The funding is aimed at addressing the workforce demand for more technical talent in artificial intelligence. Specifically, the investment will expand the CIC’s capacity to work with partner schools on the development of AI tracks within undergraduate computing degrees, and create pathways for non-computing majors to pursue master’s degrees in AI.