Texas Education Code - EDUC § 102.54. Permanent Research Program

(1) establish formalized working relationships with established research programs similar to the relationship already developed between the university and The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center;

(2) integrate the research program being developed in the graduate school of the university with a research program at the research center;

(3) employ project directors who are recognized researchers and who have had experience in applying for and using research grants from governmental agencies and private foundations;

(4) assign a person from the administrative staff of the university as administrator of the research center; and

(5) perform any other acts and make any agreements which will implement and further the research programs of the research center and the university, consistent with the purposes of this subchapter.