Science Connects to Innovation Program
The Science Connects to Innovation program empowers undergraduate science students to create entrepreneurial solutions, spanning cleaner energy, eco-friendly pesticides, potential anticancer compounds, sustainable foods, and high-tech assistive devices.
Science Connects to Innovation aims to inspire College of Science students to engage with Northeastern’s venture creation network, offering support for recognizing and pursuing entrepreneurial opportunities. The program also provides essential resources for translating their ideas into ventures, encompassing prototyping, marketing, and more.
College of Science Entrepreneurship Workshop
Over 30 students participated in the 3nd annual Entrepreneurship Workshop at the Warren Conference Center on July 25, 2025, building key leadership, communication, and practical skills as well as inspiration to pursue entrepreneurial endeavors.
Ada AI Chatbot
In this Entrepreneurship Speakers Series talk, Dr. Abby Williams, Dr. Nik Brown, and Dev Shah presented Ada, an AI chatbot they designed to assist students with Calculus. Ada provides on-demand support to help students navigate complex mathematical concepts, answering questions and offering explanations tailored to their needs.
Husky Startup Challenge
Each semester, the Husky Startup Challenge guides student entrepreneurs through boot camps focused on venture creation—from ideation to prototyping. The program culminates in Demo Day, where founders pitch their ideas in two-minute presentations to a live audience.
In fall 2023, Alexis Musaelyan-Blackmon, a data science and biology student won first place and a cash prize of $4,500 for her business pitch of Exploro—an online platform to help academic researchers recruit participants for their studies.
Meet the Faculty Advisors
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Leila Deravi
Integrating materials, biochemistry, and design at Northeastern University. -
Sanjeev Mukerjee
The research activity in Prof. Mukerjee’s group is an interdisciplinary approach encompassing the areas of solid state chemistry, spectroscopy, and electrochemistry of electrode materials for electrochemical energy conversion and storage. The current focus is targeted towards technologies for proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells and for batteries, these encompass electrocatalysis of oxygen reduction, CO tolerance […] -
Swastik Kar
Prof. Swastik Kar is an NSF CAREER-award winning physicist and educator and an NSF I-Corps certified inventor and innovator
Empowering our science entrepreneurs!
View our past speaker series, workshops, and events
Student Spotlights
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Events
Science students explore entrepreneurship through interactive workshop
The College of Science hosted the third annual Entrepreneurship Workshop on July 25, 2025 at the Warren Conference in Ashland, MA. The workshop demonstrates growing recognition of the importance of entrepreneurial skills in scientific careers. Thirty-one science students participated in the comprehensive workshop specifically designed to prepare the next generation of researchers to translate their […] -
Student Spotlight
Siima Kiriziya Machayo ‘26, BS Behavioral Neuroscience
What inspired you to pursue your current field of study/research? My inspiration for pursuing behavioral neuroscience is rooted in my fascination with how the brain influences every aspect of people’s lives and how this knowledge can be applied to improve human health. My middle name, my grandmother’s maiden name, is a meaningful way to honor […] -
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Naomi Rajput ‘26, BS Behavioral Neuroscience
What inspired you to pursue your current field of study/research? My first co-op resulted in me pursuing my venture – Eden. Working as a front office administrator, I saw pain points on administrative workflows that affected physicians, admins, and patients alike. This resulted in me exploring current solutions in the space and after realizing that […] -
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Donte Lewis ‘26, BS Cell and Molecular Biology
What inspired you to pursue your current field of study/research? My passion for science ignited in high school when I was exposed to cancer research at the Ellison Institute of Medicine where I was a summer research intern. I then pursued an internship at the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) due to my interest […] -
Student Spotlight
Turning vision into action: Science students recognized for entrepreneurial endeavors
This spring the College of Science held the first COS Entrepreneurship Recognition Dinner to recognize undergraduate COS students who are promoting entrepreneurship in the College. The keynote speaker was Oran Muduroglu, entrepreneur and parent of a Northeastern student. Muduroglu is an innovator in healthcare technology with over 30 years of experience, having founded and successfully […] -
Student Spotlight
Q&A with Lyric Westlund ’25, Science Connects to Innovation Scholarship Recipient
Tell us about yourself. I am a third-year behavioral neuroscience student from a rural area called Perrysburg, about an hour south of Buffalo, NY. I love being outdoors. I grew up in the middle of nowhere and still find so much peace in places with more trees than people. I went to Iceland on dialogue […]