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A woman speaks at a microphone in front of a large backdrop for the Northeastern Global Leadership Summit in London, with an audience visible in the foreground.

Founders pitch startups in Dragons’ Den-style event for funding

The Global Venture Forum displayed Northeastern University’s “entrepreneurial ecosystem,” said Northeastern's Diane Nishigaya MacGillivray.
Two students standing at a booth for Journee energy drinks. Nicole Khoury stands behind the booth.

Is this healthy energy drink coming to a store near you?

Nicole Khoury’s own health journey inspired her to create Journée, a healthier alternative to traditional energy drinks.
Aerial view of people wading through brown floodwaters carrying their belongings during monsoon flooding in India.

Keeping roads and train lines open during India’s monsoon floods

Northeastern graduate Udit Bhatia uses physics and AI to develop solutions to urban monsoon flooding in India.
Scenes from the 2026 WISE Summit on Northeastern’s Boston campus.

WISE summit inspires female entrepreneurs to rise above challenges 

The summit on Northeastern University’s Boston campus welcomed 200 participants for networking, workshops, inspiring speakers and more.

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In the Press

Quanta Magazine

Is AI Reasoning Right for the Wrong Reasons?

A 2025 paper from Northeastern University and the University of California, Berkeley on frontier open-source LRMs showed that between 30% and 60% of their “thinking steps” had “minimal causal impact” on the answers the models produced to benchmark math questions. Chop half of them out, and a model’s performance barely suffers.
Mass Live

Lindsay Clancy admitted to killing her children. Prosecutors still have to prove it.

In criminal cases, prosecutors “often take care to build a strong evidentiary record that goes to the elements of the crime,” said Daniel Medwed, a Northeastern University law professor.
Women's Wear Daily

Forced Labor Enforcement Is Tightening. Can AI Help?

Supply Trace, a partnership between Sheffield Hallam University and Northeastern University, uses machine learning to map supply chains and expose Xinjiang-linked cotton risks, sparing her the tedious legwork that was keeping her up at night.
CBS News

This week on “Sunday Morning”: The Money Issue (Aug. 2)

Correspondent David Pogue checks out the facts about highly-targeted advertising, and why it sometimes gets weirdly specific with David Choffnes, professor and executive director, Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute, Northeastern University.

Global Conflicts

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