Puget Sound Business Journal: Education: A university from Northeast opens doors in Northwest
By Hugo Kugiya, Contributing Writer
Puget Sound Business Journal: March 1, 2013
Seattle’s newest college, a highly regarded import from Boston, officially opened for business last week in a new office building in South Lake Union.
The Seattle campus, if it can be called that, of Northeastern University is a stack of glass-walled offices set beside a soaring lobby in a space it shares with the building’s principal occupant, the Institute for Systems Biology.
The addition of Northeastern to the building and the neighborhood is both practical and symbolic. The research university will grant only graduate degrees from its Seattle branch, with an emphasis on science, technology and health (it also offers …