When the U.S. Senate omnibus spending bill was pulled last week, more than 6,700 earmarks from across the country failed to receive funding. Included in that package was $3.6 million for the University at Buffalo, to purchase a high-tech research tool called a cyclotron.
But now UB will have to plot a new course for a research initiative that officials were counting on.
In one of his last appearances as president of UB, John Simpson hailed the cyclotron funding as a game-changer in October.
