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The Boston Globe noted that the completion of the ISEC facility was the culmination of a major shift in the culture, history, and trajectory of Northeastern University.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/art/2017/08/17/isec-building-emblem-new-era-northeastern/enkFPPz6ICqTFGH34ENpYI/story.html|title=ISEC building emblem of new era at Northeastern - The Boston Globe|work=BostonGlobe.com|access-date=2017-11-29}}</ref> In the past ten years, the university's federal research funding has more than doubled, to the current $130 million a year, and Northeastern has hired 565 new tenured and tenure-track faculty in disciplines directly tied to its research goals since the 2006–2007 academic year.<ref name="globe-open" /> The ISEC building represented a $225 million piece of the $1.6 billion master plan for development proposed by Northeastern to the Boston Planning & Development Agency in November 2013.<ref name="cpexec" />
The complex has housed a variety of major research projects. The Human-centered robotics research group develops robots and assistive devices. In partnership with NASA, researchers are programming a 6’2” humanoid, Valkyrie, to explore Mars as soon as 2030, ahead of human explorers.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.northeastern.edu/isec/|title=Interdisciplinary Science & Engineering Complex (ISEC) -
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