Funding & statistics
Funding & statistics
uLethbridge attracts over $15 million annually in research funding from governmental agencies, industry, foundations and associations, and numerous international partners.
All funding received
| Faculty member | Faculty/School | Agency | Project name | Funding program | Funds awarded | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Akbary, Hamid | Arts & Science | Calgray Food Bank | Exploring the relationship between precarious employment and food insecurity in Canada | Operating Grant | $12,712 | 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 | 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 |
| Kovalchuk, Igor | Arts & Science | Canadian Institutes of Health Research | The Canadian One Health Training Program on Emerging Zoonoses | Research Grant | $5,000 | 2025 |
| Larouche, Richard | Health Sciences | Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Patrick Akwaboah's CIHR travel award | Travel Award | $2,000 | 2025 |
| McArton, Lloyd | Education | Alberta Advisory Committee for Educational Studies | Music Education in Context: Integrating Program Delivery and In-Service Professional Development | Grant | $5,993 | 2025 |
| Starr, Lisa | Education | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | TRANSFORM: Engaging with Youth for Social Change | Partnership Grant | $10,000 | 2025 |
| Steinke, Claudia | Health Sciences | National Emergeny Nurses Association | The Health and Well-being of Frontline Nurses | Emergency Nursing Research Funding | $8,602 | 2025 |
| Yevtushenko, Dmytro | Arts & Science | Alberta Potato Investment Fund | Understanding the role, virulence and pathogenicity of Pratylenchus neglectus, its interaction with Verticillium dahliae and effect on potato yield. | Operating Grant | $35,000 | 2025 |
| Larouche, Richard | Health Sciences | Universidad Andres Bello | Adaptation and validation of the Global Adolescent and Child Physical Activity Questionnaire for Chile | Subward | $30,000 | 2024 |
| Metz, Gerlinde | Arts & Science | Branch Out Neurological Foundation | Lethbridge Powerchair Soccer Community Intervention | Impact Grants | $5,000 | 2024 |
| Coburn, Craig | Arts & Science | Alberta Energy Regulator | Spectral Library Construction and Mineral Absorption Analysis | Fee for service contract | $80,000 | 2024 |
| Mesler, Rhiannon | Business | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Transitioning to Good: When is Striving to be an Ethical Business as Good as Being One? | Subaward from Saint Mary's University | $10,500 | 2024 |
| Yevtushenko, Dmytro | Arts & Science | Syngenta Canada Inc. | Disease management strategies for potato black dot in Canadian potatoes | Disease mangagement strategies | $40,000 | 2024 |
| Ekstrand, Chelsea | Arts & Science | Alberta Gambling Research Institute | The Clockwork Casino: How Reward Timing and Magnitude Affects Brain Activation and Subjective Value | Major Grant | $10,000 | 2024 |
| Ekstrand, Chelsea | Arts & Science | Brain Canada | Real-life recall: An fMRI exploration of episodic memory in the real-world | Future Leaders in Canadian Brain Research | $10,000 | 2024 |
| Marynowski, Richelle | Education | For the Learning of Mathematics | For the Learning of Mathematics | Managing Director funds | $16,000 | 2024 |
| Wiseman, Steve | Arts & Science | Canada Water Agency | Water quality monitoring in selected watersheds impaired by wildfire | Fraser River Freshwater Ecosystem Initiative | $156,580 | 2024 |
| Elder, Steph | Arts & Science | Actua | Strategic Science Fund (SSF) | Gov of Canada Strategic Science Fund | $70,000 | 2024 |
| Mattatall, Chris | Education | Alberta Advisory Committee for Educational Studies | Using a Book Study as Professional Development for Teachers Teaching Reading | Operating Grant | $6,000 | 2024 |
| Metz, Gerlinde | Arts & Science | Canadian Space Agency | Human Adaptation to Spaceflight: An Integrated Metabolomic Analysis of ISS Data | Class Grant and Contribution Program | $225,000 | 2024 |
| Spencer, Locke | Arts & Science | Alberta Innovates | Space and Defence | Major Innovation Fund | $210,000 | 2024 |
| McMartin, Dena | Senior Admin | Environment and Climate Change Canada | Comparison of transformation oil sands naphthenic acid fraction compounds in Gateway and Crane Lake wetlands using δ13Cpyr and Δ14C isotopes and Orbitrap mass spectrometry | New Funding | $20,000 | 2024 |
| Shapiro, Sidney | Business | Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada | Navigating Language Barriers: Assessing Resource Gaps and Integration Challenges for Youth Immigrants in Lethbridge, Alberta | Lethbridge & Area Immigration Parternership | $2,500 | 2024 |
| Drollinger, Tanya | Business | MITACS Inc. | MITACS Teacher Time Machine | Business Strategy Internship | $15,000 | 2024 |
| Hoover, Shelley | Arts & Science | MITACS Inc. | Influence of diet, stock, and chemotherapeutics on Lotmaria passim infections in honey bees | Accelerate | $150,000 | 2024 |
| Li, Fangfang | Arts & Science | Government of Alberta | Building an Integrative Research and Assesment Hub for Language and Communication Development | RCP SEG | $129,939 | 2024 |
| Mosimann, Steve | Arts & Science | MITACS Inc. | Identification and Characterization of Antioxidant Activity in Canadian Wild Plants: A New Horizon in Wellness Industries | Accelerate | $30,000 | 2024 |
| Patel, Trushar | Arts & Science | Results Driven Agriculture Research | Towards Understanding Honey bee – Virus Communications | Agriculture Funding Consortium | $298,000 | 2024 |
| Gerken, Michael | Arts & Science | MITACS Inc. | Synthesis of Cationic tungsten(VI) species stabilized by cyanoborate anions | Globalink Research Award | $6,000 | 2024 |
| Hopkinson, Chris | Arts & Science | Natural Resources Canada | Hay River & Ft Simpson lidar wildfire fuel mapping | Contract | $39,994 | 2024 |
| Konschuh, Michele | Arts & Science | Gold Rain Rice Inc. | Polish Rice Seed Increase | Contract | $1,486 | 2024 |
| Mathurin-Moe, Martha | Senior Admin | Tri-Agency Institutional Programs Secretariat | Canada Research Chair -EDI Stipend 2024- 2025 | CRC program | $50,000 | 2024 |
| Patel, Trushar | Arts & Science | MITACS Inc. | L2M-Developing detection kits for Deformed wing virus infection in honey bees | Lab2Market | $15,000 | 2024 |
| Patel, Trushar | Arts & Science | MITACS Inc. | On-site Cannabis Sexing Kits | Accelerate | $90,000 | 2024 |
| Stanford, Kim | Arts & Science | Results Driven Agriculture Research | Survival of E. coli O157:H7 in pigs | Agriculture Funding Consortium | $102,390 | 2024 |
| Yevtushenko, Dmytro | Arts & Science | MITACS Inc. | LAMP assay development and qPCR validation of inoculum monitoring of diseases in field crops. | Accelerate | $15,000 | 2024 |
| Yevtushenko, Dmytro | Arts & Science | MITACS Inc. | Management of Powdery Scab of Potato in Alberta. | Accelerate | $30,000 | 2024 |
| Christensen, Darren | Health Sciences | Alberta Gambling Research Institute | The impact of responsible gambling policies of Canadian casinos on player awareness, expenditure, and enjoyment | Graduate Scholarship research stipend | $3,000 | 2024 |
| Euston, David | Arts & Science | Alberta Gambling Research Institute | AGRI Research Supplement | Graduate Scholarship research stipend | $3,000 | 2024 |
| Fiori, Andrew | Arts & Science | MITACS Inc. | Incorporation and Optimization of Allometric Equations for a Proprietary Forest Carbon Accounting Software Package | Accelerate | $45,000 | 2024 |
| Hoover, Shelley | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Toward self-sufficiency in apiculture for food security in a net-zero economy | NSERC-SSHRC Allliance (Sustainable Agriculture) | $185,300 | 2024 |
| Pelech, Sharon | Education | Alberta Education | Exploring Social-Emotional Wellness through Place Conscious Pedagogy in the PEAKS Campus | Research Partnerships Program | $50,000 | 2024 |
| Shapiro, Sidney | Business | MITACS Inc. | Explore Lethbridge: Strategic Engagement of Tourists with Community Enterprises via App Technology | Business Strategy Internship | $30,000 | 2024 |
| Shapiro, Sidney | Business | MITACS Inc. | From Data to Decisions: Developing a Prototype Dashboard for Real-Time Business Analytics | Business Strategy Internship | $15,000 | 2024 |
| Asselin, Jodie | Arts & Science | Ministry of Environment and Protected Areas | Sharing the Headwaters: Understanding anthropogenic factors affecting the ecology of the Upper Oldman Watershed. | Enhancing Environmental Science in Alberta (EESA) | $27,000 | 2024 |
| Bogard, Matthew | Arts & Science | Ministry of Environment and Protected Areas | Quantifying and mapping carbon storage and water quality improvement services provided by Albertaís prairie pothole wetlands | External contract | $65,000 | 2024 |
| Burg, Theresa | Arts & Science | Alberta Conservation Association | Response of endangered sage grouse to oil and gas reclamation in critical habitat in southeast Alberta | Research grant | $27,000 | 2024 |