If you created it or discovered it in the last year April 2025-April 2026, you can share it at RISE.

RISE is a chance to:

• Share game-changing innovation, path-breaking scholarship, world-shaping creativity, and your entrepreneurial spirit
• Connect with thinkers, doers, creators, and impact makers from across the disciplines and around the world
• Celebrate the best of Northeastern

Undergraduate and graduate students are invited to submit an abstract. Read the materials below (coming soon!) for instructions. Students whose abstracts are accepted will be asked to share a poster or present an oral presentation at RISE. Submissions are accepted and reviewed on a rolling basis.

• Abstract Submissions Open: January 9, 2026
• Abstract Submission Deadline: February 9, 2026
• Poster Submission Deadlines (further poster instructions coming soon):
  • If you would like URF to cover the cost of printing your poster: March 9, 2026
  • If you are assuming the cost of printing your own poster: April 3, 2026
    • • All posters printed by presenters independently must still be submitted to the online portal no later than April 3.
      • All posters printed by presenters independently must still adhere to the RISE size standards. Any oversized posters that encroach on other presenters space will be removed from the Poster Expo.
• RISE Oral Presentation Days (tentative): April 8 & April 10, 2026
• RISE 2026 Poster Expo: April 9, 2026

There are two ways to present at RISE 2026. You may choose to share your work either as a poster during the poster sesion on April 9th, or as an 8-minute oral presentation during a panel on one of the oral presentation days (tentatively scheduled for April 8 and April 10.

When you submit your abstract (instructions coming soon) you will select which method you would like to use to share your work.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE!  – Abstracts are due February 9th, 2026. 

Abstract submissions will open on January 9th, 2026.  Once the submission portal is open, follow the steps below to submit your abstract. Submissions will be evaluated on a rolling basis. 

To submit an abstract for RISE, you must first create an account on the RISE Abstract system using your official Northeastern University email.  

Some helpful tips as you begin the submission process: 

• Please be sure to create your account with a @northeastern.edu email address, not a @huskey.neu.edu or personal account 

• Please be sure not to include faculty mentors and post-docs as co-presenters. 

• For group projects please only submit one abstract – never fear! You can list all your student collaborators as co-presenters! 

• A presenter may only be the “primary presenter” of a single project. They can be listed as an additional co-presenter on other projects if relevant. 

Remember 

• Abstracts should focus on projects undertaken during the past year — from April 2025 until the present day. While projects do not need to be complete, substantial progress should be made.  
  • Your abstract can be a maximum of 100 words, and does not include citations, paragraphs, or footnotes. 
  • Your abstract title can be a maximum of 12 words. Please use MLA capitalization.

Review and Approval 

• Once submitted, your abstract will be reviewed for human/animal subjects, intellectual property, and editorial content. 

• You’ll be able to see approval decisions through the platform.