Step to the edge: Attend Northeastern’s Innovation Expo, RISE:2016 Early adopters, innovators, researchers, entrepreneurs, angel investors: these are people who dwell on the fringe. These are the seekers: those who strain their eyes, their fingers, and their minds trying to see, grasp, and conceive that which lies just beyond the known. These are those who attend Northeastern University’s Research, Innovation and Scholarship Expo (RISE).