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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hopkinson, Christopher | Arts & Science | Alberta Innovates Energy and Environment Solutions | The Castle Watershed; a new water resource assessment framework for a sentinel system at the crown of the continent | Water Innovation Program | $300,000 | 2016 |
| Hopkinson, Christopher | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Landcover response to changing energy and moisture regimes within boreal and montane ecosystem transition zones_ a multiscale approach | Discovery Grant - Accelerator | $120,000 | 2016 |
| Hosgood, Christopher | Health Sciences | Alberta Innovates Health Solutions | AIHS HRNI: Brassolotto | Health Research New Investigator Award | $813,125 | 2016 |
| Kavanagh, Mary | Fine Arts | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Atomic Tourist: Trinity | Insight Grant | $147,519 | 2016 |
| Kelley, Helen | Business | Covenant Health | Quality Assessment of Assisted Living Versus Long Term Care Model | Seed grant | $5,000 | 2016 |
| Kingfisher, Catherine | Arts & Science | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Expanding Policies of Wellbeing: A Participatory Ethnographic Analysis of Urban Collective Housing Communities in Tokyo and Vancouver | Insight Grant | $106,810 | 2016 |
| Kovalchuk, Igor | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Epigenetic variations in hemp cultivars grown in contrasting environments | Engage Grant | $25,000 | 2016 |
| Kovalchuk, Igor | Arts & Science | Alberta Innovates Health Solutions | Prediction and Understanding of Resilience in Alberta Families | CRIO | $239,821 | 2016 |
| Kovalchuk, Igor | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Epigenetic variations in hemp cultivars grown in contrasting environments | Engage Grant | $25,000 | 2016 |
| Kovalchuk, Olga | Arts & Science | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre | POETIC Epigenetics Developmental Laboratory | POETIC | $1,000,000 | 2016 |
| Kovalchuk, Olga | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | EXOSOMES - NOVEL MEDIATORS OF DIRECT AND BYSTANDER RADIATION EFFECTS ON THE BRAIN | Discovery Grant | $195,000 | 2016 |
| Laird, Gillian | Arts & Science | Canada Research Chairs | Dr. Athan Zovoilis CRC Nomination | JELF | $500,000 | 2016 |
| Leung, Brenda | Health Sciences | Alberta Health Services | Exploring the mental healthcare needs of children in Alberta | Health Outcomes Improvement Fund | $48,535 | 2016 |
| Leung, Brenda | Health Sciences | Canadian CAM Research Fund | Pilot study of acupuncture to treat anxiety in children and adolescents | CCRF | $5,000 | 2016 |
| Leung, Brenda | Health Sciences | Alberta Health Services | Metabolomics profiling of metabolic function in pregnant women: assessing an innovation for precision medicine | Seed grant | $10,000 | 2016 |
| Li, Fangfang | Arts & Science | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Speech production in children enrolled in second language education programs | Insight Grant | $151,495 | 2016 |
| Li, Fangfang | Arts & Science | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Alberta child language acquisition research: Weaving an integrative and inclusive network | Connections Grant | $28,153 | 2016 |
| Li, Fangfang | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | The development of child speech articulation: Longitudinal and cross-language perspectives | Discovery Grant | $20,000 | 2016 |
| Li, Hua | Arts & Science | Canada Foundation for Innovation | Platform for Advanced Design Leading to Manufacturing in Micro-Nano Technologies | Innovation Fund | $0 | 2016 |
| Logue, David | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Subaward: The nature, function and evolution of signal complexity in animal and human communication systems | Discovery Grant | $20,000 | 2016 |
| McNaughton, Bruce | Arts & Science | European Commission | Investigation of local and global cortical circuits with advanced neural probes for high-resolution | No cost participant research grant | $0 | 2016 |
| McNaughton, Bruce | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Hippocampal cortical interactions and the extraction of knowledge from episodic memory | Discovery Grant | $450,000 | 2016 |
| Metz, Gerlinde | Arts & Science | Branch Out Neurological Foundation | The Effects of Prenatal Stress on Immune Activation and the Severity of Multiple Sclerosis in an Animal Model | Studentship | $1,000 | 2016 |
| Metz, Gerlinde | Arts & Science | Branch Out Neurological Foundation | Understanding the Impact of Early Experience on MS Risk | Studentship | $1,000 | 2016 |
| Metz, Gerlinde | Arts & Science | Alberta Innovates Health Solutions | Prediction and Understanding of Resilience in Albertan Families: Longitudinal Study of Disaster Responses (PURLS) | CRIO | $119,078 | 2016 |
| Metz, Gerlinde | Arts & Science | Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes of Prenatal Stress | Project Scheme | $1,150,575 | 2016 |
| Mills, Josephine | Fine Arts | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | You Are Here: an interdisciplinary workshop and knowledge mobilization program | Connections Grant | $48,000 | 2016 |
| Mohajerani, Majid | Alzheimer Society of Canada | Toward dissecting the etiology of Alzheimer's disease: Is altered neuronal activity a pathology or compensation? | Research Grant | $199,950 | 2016 | |
| Mohajerani, Majid | Arts & Science | Alberta Innovates Health Solutions | The effects of circadian disruption cognition in aging | Sustainability Fund | $45,000 | 2016 |
| Morris, Joy | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Symmetries of Cayley Graphs | Discovery Grant | $80,000 | 2016 |
| Mueller, Richard | Arts & Science | Canada Foundation for Innovation | The CRDCN Transition to High Performance Computing: Liberating Data for Research and Policy | Innovation Fund | $11,952 | 2016 |
| Mueller, Richard | Arts & Science | Canada Foundation for Innovation | CRDCN: Evolving to Meet New Research Data Needs and Policy Priorities | Major Science Initiatives | $11,952 | 2016 |
| Newberry, Janice | Arts & Science | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Photo-elicitation and Local Values in Childrearing in Blackfoot Territory | Partnership Grant | $14,900 | 2016 |
| Newberry, Janice | Arts & Science | Alberta Centre for Child, Family and Community Research | Raising Spirit: The Opokaa'sin Digital Storytelling Project | Research Grant | $40,000 | 2016 |
| O'Donnell, Dan | Arts & Science | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Future Commons: Transforming Scholarly Communication through Collective Action | Partnership Development Grant | $200,000 | 2016 |
| Okine, Erasmus | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Biological variations in efficiency of nutrient utilization | Discovery Grant | $46,945 | 2016 |
| Okine, Erasmus | Arts & Science | Alberta Innovation and Advanced Education | Clincial 3T Human MRI facility | Research Grant | $74,000 | 2016 |
| Patel, Trushar | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | IDENTIFYING STRUCTURAL FEATURES OF VIRAL RNA RECOGNIZED BY HOST HELICASES | Discovery Grant | $155,000 | 2016 |
| Piquette, Noella | Education | Alberta Health Services | Strengthening the impact of a school-based tobacco prevention program through vigorous evaluation | Tobacco Reduction Unit | $145,000 | 2016 |
| Popov, Alexey | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Invariant subspaces and their applications in operator theory and operator algebras | Discovery Grant | $95,000 | 2016 |
| Pyle, Gregory | Arts & Science | Environment Canada | Evaluating the resiliency of aquatic ecosystems to a catastrophic mine tailings spill event: The 2014 Mount Polley incident in the Quesnel River Watershed, British Columbia | Environmental Damages Fund | $168,410 | 2016 |
| Rasmussen, Joseph | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Establishing the winter habitat requirements of Cutthroat trout on Gold Creek Alberta | Collabrative Research and Development Grants | $83,200 | 2016 |
| Rice, Jackie | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Sociolinguistics Tools in the Analysis of Language Use in Software Development | Discovery Grant | $100,000 | 2016 |
| Rochdi, Nadia | Arts & Science | Alberta Environment and Parks | A Web-Based Monitoring System for Enhancing the Provincial Mapping and Monitoring Capability | AMERA Research Grant | $100,000 | 2016 |
| Rodrigues, Hillary | Arts & Science | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Characterizing Modern Nondual Spirituality | Insight Development Grant | $43,048 | 2016 |
| Rood, Stewart | Arts & Science | Alberta Innovates Energy and Environment Solutions | Implementing Functional Flows: Floodplain Water Use and Dam Operations in the South Saskatchewan River Basin | Water Innovation Program | $360,000 | 2016 |
| Roussel, Marc | Arts & Science | MITACS | Design of a gene network implementing an associative memory circuit | Globalink | $5,000 | 2016 |
| Roussel, Marc | Arts & Science | MITACS | A new gene network model of associative memory | Globalink | $5,000 | 2016 |
| Schultz, elizabeth | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Functional analysis of the FKD proteins adn environmental control of leaf vein pattern | Discovery Grant | $140,000 | 2016 |
| Shan, Gongbing | Arts & Science | Sport Science Association of Alberta | Biomechanical Quantification of Influence Factors Related to the Hammer-Throw Quality | Project 2016 | $7,000 | 2016 |