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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Natural Resources Canada (Utoronto subaward) | Advancing Forest Fuels Characterization Using LiDAR | Build and Mobilize Foundational Wildland Fire Knowledge | $513,000 | 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 | 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 | City of Lethbridge | Lethbridge Transit Leadership Study | grant | $52,004 | 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 |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| James Sanders | Health Science | Canadian Research Initiative in Substance Matters (CRISM) Prairie Node | Prenatal Tobacco/Cannabis Exposure Plus Alcohol: Neurodevelopmental and Substance-Related Outcomes | CRISM | $10,000 | 2025 |
| Kim Stanford | Biological Sciences | Alberta Irrigation Districts Association | Detection of Campylobacter and Salmonella in irrigation water | Research contract | $47,000 | 2025 |
| Konschuh, Michele | Biological Sciences | SwiftAg Inc. | Rice plant production | grant | $795 | 2025 |
| Kovalchuk, Igor | Arts & Science | Canadian Institutes of Health Research | The Canadian One Health Training Program on Emerging Zoonoses | Research Grant | $5,000 | 2025 |
| Kovalchuk, Igor | Biological Sciences | Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Investigating the Dynamics of neocortical neurogenesis | research grant | $37,500 | 2025 |
| Larouche, Richard | Health Sciences | Palacky University Olomouc | Adaptation and validation of the Global Adolescent and Child Physical Activity Questionnaire for Czech Republic | grant | $30,000 | 2025 |
| Larouche, Richard | Health Sciences | Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Patrick Akwaboah's CIHR travel award | Travel Award | $2,000 | 2025 |
| Laurendeau, Jason | Sociology | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Ice Time: Indigenous girls' and Women's hockey gathering | Connection grant | $25,000 | 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 |
| Patel, Trushar | Chemistry & Biochemistry | Canadian Institutes of Health Research | The Canadian One Health Training Program on Emerging Zoonoses | Canadian One Health Training Program | $20,000 | 2025 |
| Patel, Trushar | Chemistry & Biochemistry | GlycoNet | Towards Understanding Honeybee – Virus Communications | Research Pipeline Grant | $75,000 | 2025 |
| Ryait, Hardeep | Neuroscience | Alberta Innovates | A LoRa-Enabled UHF RFID Mesh System for Feedlot Cattle Export Inventory and Traceability | Federal | $425,420 | 2025 |
| Starr, Lisa | Education | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Beyond Borders: Building the Capacity of Youth as Leaders and Knowledge Creators in addressing Gender Transformation | Connection grant | $24,418 | 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 |
| Thomas, Stuart | Business | Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada | The Effect of Mindfulness, Moral Attentiveness and a Rationalization Intervention on Auditors’ Ethical Decisions | grant | $20,000 | 2025 |
| Willi, Jessica | Chemistry & Biochemistry | Banting Research Foundation | Understanding how ribosome variants help bacteria resist antibiotics | Discovery Award | $3,000 | 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 | Brain Canada | Real-life recall: An fMRI exploration of episodic memory in the real-world | Future Leaders in Canadian Brain Research | $10,000 | 2024 |