{"id":3142,"date":"2015-05-01T14:50:05","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T14:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theaccent.org\/?p=3142"},"modified":"2015-05-01T14:50:05","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T14:50:05","slug":"hlc-gets-wet-lab-funding-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/hlc-gets-wet-lab-funding-2\/","title":{"rendered":"HLC Gets Wet Lab Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 4\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>Story by Jessica Youssefi, Reporter<br \/>\nJoseph Lee, Photo Editor<\/p>\n<p>Austin Community College is the first two-year institution to receive funding from the Texas Emerging Technology Fund. The $485 million fund was created by the Texas Legislature in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>The Highland Campus will receive $4.9 million to build an 8,400-square- foot, advanced biotechnology research lab.<\/p>\n<p>Funding for the project will give ACC the means to offer students a state-of-the-art facility equipped with the necessary tools for testing products and furthering their studies in science, biology and medicine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>The Lab will also provide opportunities for jobs, and the space for future companies to conduct research.<\/p>\n<p>ACC President and CEO Dr. Richard Rhodes said \u201cACC has a long history of providing Central Texas industries the workforce and tools they need to prosper. This lab will take that commitment to a new level.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Story by Jessica Youssefi, Reporter Joseph Lee, Photo Editor Austin Community College is the first two-year institution to receive funding from the Texas Emerging Technology Fund. The $485 million fund was created by the Texas Legislature in 2005. The Highland Campus will receive $4.9 million to build an 8,400-square- foot, advanced biotechnology research lab. Funding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4015,"featured_media":3077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[100,295,325,490,599],"class_list":["post-3142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-austin-community-college","tag-hlc-wet-lab","tag-jessica-youssefi","tag-read-accent","tag-the-accent-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4015"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}