Funding & statistics
Funding & statistics
uLethbridge attracts over $15 million annually in research funding from governmental agencies, industry, foundations and associations, and numerous international partners.
Grants/funding received (external)
| Faculty member | Faculty/School | Agency | Project name | Funding program | Funds awarded | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Akbary, Amir | Math & Computer Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Analytic problems for global fields and their L-functions | Discovery Grant | $170,000 | 2026 |
| Aubry-Wake, Caroline | Biological Sciences | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Understanding Mountain Meltwater-Groundwater Interactions to Support Water Security | Discovery Grant | $207,500 | 2026 |
| Benkoczi, Robert | Math & Computer Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Algorithms for large scale resource location problems | Discovery Grant | $185,000 | 2026 |
| Bernardo, Heliudson | Physics & Astronomy | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | New directions for early universe cosmology | Discovery Grant | $237,500 | 2026 |
| Boeré, René | Chemistry & Biochemistry | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Interplay of p-Block Element Compounds with Metals | Discovery grant | $44,000 | 2026 |
| Bonnaventure, Phil | Geography & Environment | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Frozen thresholds: advancing permafrost modelling & testing in northern mountain ecosystems. | Discovery Grant | $112,500 | 2026 |
| Bonnaventure, Phil | Geography & Environment | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Frozen thresholds: advancing permafrost modelling & testing in northern mountain ecosystems. | Discovery Grant | $220,000 | 2026 |
| Budzinski, Roberto | Neuroscience | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | New mathematical approaches for transient dynamics and applications in neural computation | Discovery Grant | $197,500 | 2026 |
| Dasgupta, Arundhati | Physics & Astronomy | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Quantum and Gravity | Discovery Grant | $44,000 | 2026 |
| Gibb, Robbin | Neuroscience | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Stress, Resilience, and the Skin-Brain Interface | Discovery Grant | $315,000 | 2026 |
| Gonzalez, Claudia | Kinesiology | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Embodied foundations of spatial cognition | Discovery Grant | $220,000 | 2026 |
| Hayes, Paul | Chemistry & Biochemistry | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Exploiting Designer Ligands to Elicit New Chemical Transformations at Late Transition Metals | Discovery Grant | $225,000 | 2026 |
| Iwaniuk, Andrew | Neuroscience | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | A multi-faceted approach to the study of brain-behaviour evolution | Discovery Grant | $390,000 | 2026 |
| Laird, Rob | Biological Sciences | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Evolution of senescence in plants | Discovery Grant | $240,000 | 2026 |
| Logue, David | Psychology | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | A Complex Communication Network | Discovery Grant | $44,000 | 2026 |
| Luczak, Artur | Neuroscience | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Predictive Neuronal Packet Theory: Guiding Synaptic Plasticity with Top-Down Surprise. | Discovery Grant | $315,000 | 2026 |
| McDonald, Rob | Neuroscience | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Exploring functional interactions between identified learning and memory systems: striatum and amygdala | Discovery Grant | $390,000 | 2026 |
| McMartin, Dena | Geography & Environment | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Resilience-Oriented Analyses and Decision-Making in Watershed Analysis, Management, and Adaptation | Discovery Grant | $44,000 | 2026 |
| Ng, Nathan | Math & Computer Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | L-functions and prime numbers | Discovery Grant | $185,000 | 2026 |
| Ritchie, John | Neuroscience | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | The neural representation of natural behavior in real-world environments | Discovery Grant | $222,500 | 2026 |
| Schneider, Stephanie | Chemistry & Biochemistry | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | From Molecules to Processes: Sources and Reactions of Free Radicals in Wildfire Smoke | Discovery Grant | $187,500 | 2026 |
| Spencer, Locke | Physics & Astronomy | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | The Far Infrared Universe | Discovery Grant | $200,000 | 2026 |
| Tatsuno, Masami | Neuroscience | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Memory processing during wakefulness and sleep: a computational approach | Discovery Grant | $195,000 | 2026 |
| Vasey, Paul | Neuroscience | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | The evolution and biopsychology of nonconceptive sexuality | Discovery Grant | $315,000 | 2026 |
| Hoover, Shelley | Arts & Science | Project Apis m. | Validating a non-invasive approach to characterizing queen honey bee gut microbiomes and testing queen gut microbiome responses to heat stress and antibiotic exposure | Research grant | $153,700 | 2025 |
| Chasmer, Laura | Arts & Science | Natural Resources Canada (Utoronto subaward) | Advancing Forest Fuels Characterization Using LiDAR | Build and Mobilize Foundational Wildland Fire Knowledge | $513,000 | 2025 |
| Konschuh, Michele | Biological Sciences | Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture | Establishment of irrigation requirements and recommendations for Mustard Seed Producers | Agriculture Development Fund | $17,500 | 2025 |
| AJ Lowik | Sociology | CIHR | "Towards Equitable Sexual Health Care in BC: Centring the Voices of Cis and Trans Feminine Youth and Young Women in Policy and Practice" | Subaward | $20,000 | 2025 |
| Akbary, Hamid | Arts & Science | Calgray Food Bank | Exploring the relationship between precarious employment and food insecurity in Canada | Operating Grant | $12,712 | 2025 |
| Biological Sciences | Gold Rain Rice | Research contract | Michele Konschuh | Polish Rice Production in Alberta Phase 2 | $48,000 | 2025 |
| Bragg, Bronwyn | Arts & Science | Workers' Compensation Board - Alberta | Opportunities and Challenges for minority language speakers navigating WCB | Alberta Workers' Compensation Board Research Program | $37,500 | 2025 |
| Chasmer, Laura | Geography & Environment | Wildlife Conservation Society | Weston Boreal Research Fellowship | Weston Family Fellowship | $5,000 | 2025 |
| Chasmer, Laura | Geography & Environment | Canadian Safety and Security Program | AI based Wildfire Intelligence System providing Critical Decision Support to Fire Fighters | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency | $205,804 | 2025 |
| Chasmer, Laura | Geography & Environment | Natural Resources Canada (Utoronto subaward) | Advancing Forest Fuels Characterization Using LiDAR | Build and Mobilize Foundational Wildland Fire Knowledge | $513,000 | 2025 |
| Chasmer, Laura | Arts & Science | Natural Resources Canada | Spatio-temporal variations in wildland fire fuel connectivity and behaviour using multidata analytics (supplement) | Wildfire Resilient Futures Initiative | $149,500 | 2025 |
| Cheng, Howard | Math & Computer Science | Strategic Networking & Development | Participation at the 2025 Rocky Mountain Regional Programming Competition | Strategic Networking & Development | $3,000 | 2025 |
| Christensen, Darren | Addictions Counselling | Alberta Gambling Research Institute | Piloting the addition of Contingency Management to best practice counselling as an adjunct treatment for rural and remote disordered gamblers. | Impact Grant | $40,000 | 2025 |
| Cuellar, Andrea | Anthropology | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Biodiversity management and food security through culturally grounded socioecological restoration | Destination Horizon | $14,969 | 2025 |
| Devan McNeill | Health Science | National Council for Therapeutic Recreation Certification | " Key collaborators’ perspectives on the supporting factors and barriers to research literacy and knowledge mobilization in therapeutic recreation education and practice in Canada" | Therapeutic Recreation | $5,000 | 2025 |
| Dixon, Sandra | Education | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Africentric Counselling Methodologies and Tools | Partnership Engage | $24,467 | 2025 |
| Genee, Inge | Modern Languages & Linguistics | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | A'tsimaani: An invitation to Niitsi'powashini | Connection grant | $49,082 | 2025 |
| Gerken, Michael | Chemistry & Biochemistry | American Chemical Society | Study of the Chemistry of MoOF3 | Moissan Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship | $5,000 | 2025 |
| Goater, Cam | Biological Sciences | Alberta Conservation Association | Development and evaluation of predictive habitat models for the endangered, endemic land snail, Oreohelix cooperi in Cypress Hills Park, Alberta | Grants in Biodiversity | $14,036 | 2025 |
| Hallstrom, Lars | Poltiical Science | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Involuntary staying and the Rural Problematique: Learning to leave but only able to stay | Destination Horizon | $15,000 | 2025 |
| Hallstrom, Lars | Poltiical Science | City of Lethbridge | Lethbridge Transit Leadership Study | grant | $52,004 | 2025 |
| Hazendonk, Paul | Chemistry & Biochemistry | Lethbridge County | Agricultural waste streams to inputs using renewable energy: working to complete the circle | research grant | $20,000 | 2025 |
| Hoover, Shelley | Biological Sciences | Canadian Bee Research Fund | Coming in Hot: How temperature affects the growth and development of Lotmaria passim | Canadian Bee Research Fund | $3,450 | 2025 |
| Hoover, Shelley | Biological Sciences | Results Driven Agricultural Research | Influence of diet, stock, and chemotherapeutics on Lotmaria passim infections in honey bees | Accelerating Ag Innovations 2.0 | $192,750 | 2025 |
| Hopkinson, Chris | Geography & Environment | Alberta Environment & Parks | Eastern Slopes Lidar Surveys to support Snow Monitoring Network Evaluation | Alberta Ministerial grant | $198,000 | 2025 |
| Igor Kovalchuk | Biological Sciences | CIHR | Investigating the dynamics of neocortical neurogenesis: a proneural gene perspective | Subaward | $37,500 | 2025 |