Funding & statisitcs
uLethbridge attracts over $15 million annually in research funding from governmental agencies, industry, foundations and associations, and numerous international partners.
Overview of 2019/20 research funding
$15.79M
Total funding

$5.64M
The value of Tri-Agency funding

40+
Number of Sponsoring Agencies

All funding received
Faculty member | Faculty/School | Agency | Project name | Funds awarded | Year |
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Barrett, Louise | Arts & Science | ISHE | Variable Action and Motor Learning Among Preschool-aged Children | $10,106 | 2020 |
Brassolotto, Julia | Health Sciences | University of Lethbridge | AIHS Chair - Matching Funds | $350,000 | 2020 |
Brassolotto, Julia | Health Sciences | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Medical Assistance in Dying: Ethical and Policy issues in Southern Rural Alberta | $57,322 | 2020 |
Byrne, James | Arts & Science | Alberta Real Estate Foundation | Defining challenges and opportunities for South Sask. watershed communities under a rapidly changing climate: Regional Analyses and Case Studies | $50,000 | 2020 |
Caspar, Sienna | Health Sciences | College of Licensed Pratical Nurses of Alberta | Evaluating the Feasible and Sustainable Culture Change ModelÑa novel, web-based intervention designed to increase the provision of person-centred care practice in residential care homes. | $25,000 | 2020 |
Chasmer, Laura | Arts & Science | Mitacs | Advancing Climate-mediated Wetland Assessment and Change Detection using Earth Observation Data Fusion and Advanced Analytics | $60,000 | 2020 |
Christensen, Darren | Health Sciences | Alberta Health Services | Low dose buprenorphine to mitigate the barrier of withdrawal in transitioning a patient from opioid dependence to opioid maintenance therapy in an outpatient setting | $10,000 | 2020 |
Demeler, Borries | Arts & Science | Alberta Innovates | $25,000 | 2020 | |
Demeler, Borries | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Use of Analytical Ultracentrifugation to Uncover Unique Characterization of Canola Feed Ingredients | $25,000 | 2020 |
Demeler, Borries | Arts & Science | National Institutes of Health | Elucidating molecular hetero-interactions using multi-wavelength analytical ultracentrifugation | $330,259 | 2020 |
Demeler, Borries | Arts & Science | Applied Pharmaceutical Innovation | Caktech Travel Award | $3,348 | 2020 |
Gibb, Robbin | Arts & Science | Branch Out Neurological Foundation | Cannabis and the Brain: Assessing the Differential Effects of Cannabis Strains on Neuroinflammation, Behaviour and Neuroanatomy in Rodent Models | $2,000 | 2020 |
Goater, Cameron | Arts & Science | Alberta Conservation Association | Life cycle, intra-host development and consequences of an emerging new pathogen of minnows in southern Alberta | $10,197 | 2020 |
Goater, Cameron | Arts & Science | Alberta Conservation Association | Causes and consequences of multiparasitism in wild and experimental populations of fathead minnows | $10,783 | 2020 |
Golsteyn, Roy | Arts & Science | Shell Canada Ltd. | The Prairie to Pharmacy Shell Legacy Project | $25,000 | 2020 |
Golsteyn, Roy | arts & Science | Power Corporation | Jim Coutts Prairie to Pharmacy Project | $125,000 | 2020 |
Gruber, Aaron | Arts & Science | Alberta Innovates | Novel therapeutic potential of non-psychotropic cannabinoids in pain, inflammation, and depression | $297,000 | 2020 |
Hogue, Michelle | Arts & Science | Alberta Environment & Parks | Traditional Ecological Knowledge Program | $1,000,000 | 2020 |
Hopkinson, Chris | Arts & Science | Columbia Wetlands Stewardship Partners | A remote sensing observation-based assessment of floodplain hydroperiod and wetland vulnerability along the Upper Columbia River; feasibility study | $15,000 | 2020 |
Inglis, Doug | arts & Science | Canadian Glycomics Network | Development of next-generation glyco-caged drugs to treat enteric inflammatory diseases in humans and livestock (CD-50) | $66,000 | 2020 |
Lea, Brandie | Senior Admin | Mitacs | Research Training Awards - Mitacs | $9,000 | 2020 |
Litchke, Lyn | Health Sciences | University of Lethbridge | Health Sci Res Allowance | $20,000 | 2020 |
McCune, Jenny | Arts & Science | Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Conservation, and Parks | Research and Monitoring for Wood-poppy | $33,975 | 2020 |
McIntyre, Don | Business | University of Waterloo | Practicing Reconciliation Through Teaching and Research on Haida Gwaii: A Collaborative Research Project | $20,000 | 2020 |
Metz, Gerlinde | Arts & Science | Canada Foundation for Innovation | State-of-the-Art Vivarium of the New Science and Academic Building | $26,460 | 2020 |
Mohajerani, Majid | Arts & Science | Weston Brain Institute | $121,200 | 2020 | |
Nicol, Lorraine | Arts & Science | Alberta Real Estate Foundation | WPACs and Municipalities - Joint Initiatives and their Effect on Municipal Planning for Sustainable Communities in Alberta | $30,000 | 2020 |
O'Donnell, Dan | Arts & Science | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Canada-LATAM Workshop on Open and Inclusive access to research (Taller Canada-LATAM sobre acceso abierto y equitativo a la investigaci—n cient’fica), Santiago de Chile, November 2020 | $25,000 | 2020 |
Okine, Erasmus | Senior Admin | Alberta Innovates | AI Summer Studentship and HYRS Programs | $150,000 | 2020 |
Otto, Jennifer | Arts & Science | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Remembering Anabaptist Martyrs | $23,050 | 2020 |
Patel, Trushar | Arts & Science | Mitacs | Towards developing inhibitors to treat CoVID-19 | $210,000 | 2020 |
Pickles, Penny | Senior Admin | Government of Canada | Canada Research Continuity Emergency Fund | 2020 | |
Spenceley, Shannon | Health Sciences | Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Alberta Indigenous Mentorship in Health Innovation Network (AIM-HI Network) | $1,500 | 2020 |
Thakor, Nehal | Arts & Science | Cancer Research Society | Regulation of mRNA translation by eIF5B in glioblastoma | $120,000 | 2020 |
Vasey, Paul | Arts & Science | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | The Puzzles of Sexual Orientation & Gender Diversity Conference 2020 | $19,279 | 2020 |
Wiseman, Steve | Arts & Science | Alberta Conservation Association | Characterization of the sensitivity of three fish species inhabiting the Alberta Oil Sands Region to PAHs and alkyl PAHs | $4,335 | 2020 |
Yevtushenko, Dmytro | Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada | CanPEDnet - The Canadian Potato Early Dying Network | $84,870 | 2020 | |
Archibald, Valerie | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Family STEM Night | $2,550 | 2019 |
Basil, Debra | Business | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | The Impact of touchscreen devices on individual judgment and decision making | $7,000 | 2019 |
Boere, Rene | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Molecular Electrochemistry as Enabling Technology in Chemistry and Chemotherapeutics | $120,000 | 2019 |
Bogard, Matthew | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Changing Salt Content in Canadian Prairie Surface Waters: Elemental Interactions and Ecosystem Outcomes | $162,500 | 2019 |
Bonifacio, Glenda | Arts & Science | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Gender equality, foreign aid and Dutertism: A case study of post-Haiyan communities in the Philippines, 2016-2019 | $42,696 | 2019 |
Caspar, Sienna | Health Sciences | Covenant Health | The use of cinematic 3D virtual reality leisure activities for improved engagement and wellbeing of persons living with dementiaÑa pilot study | $5,000 | 2019 |
Chasmer, Laura | Arts & Science | Canadian Space Agency | Wetland assessment and monitoring using multi-EO data and advanced analytics (WAM-EO) | $57,491 | 2019 |
Chasmer, Laura | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Development of a multi-temporal effective leaf area index model from multi-spectral lidar; Scaling to Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data using machine learning | $24,930 | 2019 |
Chasmer, Laura | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Wildfire Network | 2019 | |
Cheng, Howard | Arts & Science | Alberta Innovates | Participation at the 2020 ICPC North American Championship | $1,350 | 2019 |
Cheng, Howard | Arts & Science | Alberta Innovates | Participation at the 2019 Rocky Mountain Regional Programming Contest | $3,180 | 2019 |
Clark, Christine | Fine Arts | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Concepts That Bite Through Time | $249,953 | 2019 |
Copeland, Jennifer | Arts & Science | Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Stand When You Can: Feasibility of a multi-level intervention to modify sedentary behaviour among older adults in assisted living. | $92,685 | 2019 |