Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday ended Rick Perry’s long-touted—but highly criticized—Emerging Technology Fund, replacing it with an initiative to attract Nobel laureates and other world-renown researchers to Texas universities.
Abbott signs into law new university recruitment program
Texas Governor Greg Abbott speaks at the Dallas Regional Chamber at the Hyatt Regency Hotel on March 16, 2015. He spoke on the 2015 State of the State. (Michael Ainsworth/The Dallas Morning News)