The head of N.C. State University research says they asked for less than in years past.
Terri Lomax, vice chancellor for research and graduate studies at the Raleigh college, said that she decided to be more choosy about the special appropriations it requested from the state's Congressional delegation.
"I insisted that we be more selective," she said.
She asked deans at the college to rank their requests, then she and several staffers went through them before presenting them to the chancellor's office and the University of North Carolina's general administration.
The projects were then presented to different members of the delegation, based on their interests. (Reps. Bob Etheridge and Mike McIntyre, for example, were asked to help fund sweet potato research because they have farmers in their districts.)
In all, she said the university asked for 23 earmarks, the same number that members of the House requested for it. From there, they'll then get peer-reviewed at the appropriate agencies and checked by Congressional committees.
"They actually get more thoroughly reviewed than traditional research grants," she said.
Previously: N.C. State top earmark college in North Carolina.
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