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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andrea Cuellar | Anthropology | SSHRC | Socioeconomic Pillar for the Oldman Watershed Assessment | Partnership Engage | $48,825 | 2026 |
| Caroline Aubry-Wake | Geography & Environment | Mountain Research Initiative | Harmonizing Forcing Data to Improve Comparability in Glacierized Mountain Hydrology | GEO Mountains Small Grant | $10,000 | 2026 |
| Chloe Crosschild | Health Sciences | OCEC (CFREF) | Indigenous Path Seed Grant | Indigenous Path Seed Grant | $10,000 | 2026 |
| Chris Burton | History & Religion | SSHRC | Prairie Visions: Music, Memory, and Landscape in Southern Alberta | Connection | $37,430 | 2026 |
| Gibb, Robbin | Neuroscience | Canada Foundation for Innovation | Integrative Microscopy for Behavioural, Developmental, and Comparative Neuroscience | Canada Foundation for Innovation | $155,514 | 2026 |
| Kehinde Olobatuyi | Mathematics & Computer Science | CIHR | Emerging Infectious Diseases and Health Emergencies: Estimating the prevalence of the bacteria pneumonia and COVID 19 | CIHR REDI PHASE II | $360,000 | 2026 |
| Michele Konschuh | Biological Sciences | RDAR | Pollination of yellow mustard by Apis melifera: Effects on mustard productivity and honey production | Accelerating Agricultural Innovation | $150,600 | 2026 |
| Robbin Gibb | Neuroscience | Canadian Parks and Recreation | BBT- Community Outreach Staff | Green Initiative | $3,118 | 2026 |
| Tiffany Morin | Health Sciences | OCEC (CFREF) | Recognizing Indigenous Voices in Early Rehabilitation (RIVER): Children’s Book Knowledge Mobilization Project | Indigenous Path Seed Grant | $5,000 | 2026 |
| Tiffany Prete | Sociology | Calgary Arts Development Authority | St. Dunstan Industrial School Research and Archival Project | Research grant | $22,176 | 2026 |
| Willi, Jessica | Chemistry & Biochemistry | Canada Foundation for Innovation | Spinning ribosomes: an ultracentrifugation suite for innovation in health, research and industry | JELF | $226,630 | 2026 |
| Davis-Fisch, Heather | Art | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Traces and Circulations | Insight Development Grant | $413,116 | 2026 |
| Leibel, Miranda | Liberal Education | SociaI Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Postal Power: Colonial Networks and the Canadian Postal Service | Insight Development Grant | $61,516 | 2026 |
| MacCormack, Jeffrey | Education | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Building Communities of Practice Among Principals and Teachers that Support Students with Profound and Multiple Disabilities: A Case-Study Approach | Insight Development Grant | $69,008 | 2026 |
| Raycraft, Justin | Anthropology | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | People, Livestock, and Carnivores: Social Dimensions of Coexistence in Northern Tanzania | Insight Development Grant | $34,556 | 2026 |
| Schwarz, Kaylan | Liberal Education | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Feminists on the Prairie | Insight Development Grant | $69,014 | 2026 |
| Starr, Lisa | Education | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Mobilize: New Teachers Mobilizing gender transformative change in Sierra Leone | Insight Development Grant | $368,933 | 2026 |
| 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 | $220,000 | 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 |
| 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 | Natural Resources Canada (Utoronto subaward) | Advancing Forest Fuels Characterization Using LiDAR | Build and Mobilize Foundational Wildland Fire Knowledge | $513,000 | 2025 |