Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has praised the efforts of Texas Tech University in securing a National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Research Center (ERC).Abbott joined Texas Tech President Lawrence Schovanec and Center Director Gerri Botte for a news conference this past week launching the Center for Advancing Sustainable and Distributed Fertilizer Production (CASFER).In August, Texas Tech received a $50 million grant – the largest in school history – from the NSF for CASFER with a vision to enable resilient and sustainable food production by developing next-generation, modular, distributed and efficient technologies for capturing, recycling and producing decarbonized nitrogen-based fertilizers.“Today marks a ...