{"id":205263,"date":"2026-04-23T16:37:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T20:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/23\/uwf-breaks-ground-on-new-research-building-the-synapse\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T16:45:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T20:45:15","slug":"uwf-breaks-ground-on-new-research-building-the-synapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/23\/uwf-breaks-ground-on-new-research-building-the-synapse\/","title":{"rendered":"UWF breaks ground on new research building, The Synapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.uwf.edu\/uwf-breaks-ground-on-new-research-building-the-synapse\/\">UWF breaks ground on new research building, The Synapse<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.uwf.edu\/uwf-breaks-ground-on-new-research-building-the-synapse\/\">https:\/\/news.uwf.edu\/uwf-breaks-ground-on-new-research-building-the-synapse\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-23 16:37:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"news.uwf.edu\">news.uwf.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The University of West Florida broke ground on a new facility called The Synapse on April 23, funded by a $32.5 million award and state funding.<\/li>\n<li>The new 55,000-square-foot building will house advanced computational, AI, cybersecurity, and engineering research labs and equipment.<\/li>\n<li>Designed by Caldwell Architects in a Y shape, the building integrates research labs, office hubs, and open collaboration spaces to encourage collaboration and innovation.<\/li>\n<li>The Synapse will serve as the base for the Center for Computational Intelligence and the Center for Cybersecurity and AI, fostering interdisciplinary research in areas like robotics, AI, power systems, and material science.<\/li>\n<li>The building will feature a central atrium and interconnected corridors to promote interaction and intellectual connections among researchers and students.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UWF breaks ground on new research building, The Synapse https:\/\/news.uwf.edu\/uwf-breaks-ground-on-new-research-building-the-synapse\/ Publish Date: 2026-04-23 16:37:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":205264,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/news.uwf.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/The-Synapse-Groundbreaking-1024x683.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205263"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205265,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205263\/revisions\/205265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}