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
Grants/funds Received
| Faculty member | Faculty/School | Agency | Project name | 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 | $153,700 | 2025 |
| Chasmer, Laura | Arts & Science | Natural Resources Canada (Utoronto subaward) | Advancing Forest Fuels Characterization Using LiDAR | $513,000 | 2025 |
| Akbary, Hamid | Arts & Science | Calgray Food Bank | Exploring the relationship between precarious employment and food insecurity in Canada | $12,712 | 2025 |
| Bragg, Bronwyn | Arts & Science | Workers' Compensation Board - Alberta | Opportunities and Challenges for minority language speakers navigating WCB | $37,500 | 2025 |
| Burleigh, Dawn | Education | University of Lethbridge | The Mentorship Dimensions: Mobilizing a tool for use in practicum settings | $7,000 | 2025 |
| Chasmer, Laura | Arts & Science | Natural Resources Canada | Spatio-temporal variations in wildland fire fuel connectivity and behaviour using multidata analytics (supplement) | $149,500 | 2025 |
| Cunningham, Jerimy | Arts & Science | University of Lethbridge | Crafting Capitalism: San Marcos Tlapazola and the Global Market | $6,994 | 2025 |
| Davis-Fisch, Heather | Fine Arts | University of Lethbridge | Traces and Circulations | $5,802 | 2025 |
| Dixon, Sandra | Education | University of Lethbridge | Refining the Free-Flowing Model of Faith: A Pilot Project for Supporting Mental Health Professionals Serving Diverse Clients | $5,000 | 2025 |
| Fujiwara, Gideon | Arts & Science | University of Lethbridge | Japan Studies Association of Canada (JSAC) 2025 Conference hosted by the University and Community Participation, and Student Assistants | $7,000 | 2025 |
| Golsteyn, Roy | Arts & Science | University of Lethbridge | Investigation of the Scientific Properties of Blackfoot (Niitsitapi) Traditional Prairie Plants | $5,000 | 2025 |
| Koo, EunJoo | Business | University of Lethbridge | Long-term sustainability of Indigenous entrepreneurship in Canada | $3,000 | 2025 |
| Kovalchuk, Igor | Arts & Science | Canadian Institutes of Health Research | The Canadian One Health Training Program on Emerging Zoonoses | $5,000 | 2025 |
| Larouche, Richard | Health Sciences | Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Patrick Akwaboah's CIHR travel award | $2,000 | 2025 |
| Leibel, Miranda | Liberal Education | University of Lethbridge | SAGE Sisters' Art Collective | $5,000 | 2025 |
| McArton, Lloyd | Education | Alberta Advisory Committee for Educational Studies | Music Education in Context: Integrating Program Delivery and In-Service Professional Development | $5,993 | 2025 |
| Mesler, Rhiannon | Business | University of Lethbridge | Clouded Minds: Air Pollution as a Psychological Antecedent to Construal Level | $7,000 | 2025 |
| Million, Tara | Arts & Science | University of Lethbridge | Indigenous Archaeology as Practiced Globally and Locally | $5,000 | 2025 |
| Million, Tara | Arts & Science | University of Lethbridge | Applying Aapaitsitapiiysinni/White Weasel Robe People’s Research Paradigm to Heritage Resource Management in Blackfoot Territory (MA Project – Blair Many Fingers) | $5,000 | 2025 |
| Schwarz, Kaylan | Liberal Education | University of Lethbridge | Feminists on the Prairie: An Intergenerational Dialogue | $7,000 | 2025 |
| Starr, Lisa | Education | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | TRANSFORM: Engaging with Youth for Social Change | $10,000 | 2025 |
| Steinke, Claudia | Health Sciences | National Emergeny Nurses Association | The Health and Well-being of Frontline Nurses | $8,602 | 2025 |
| Stevens, Kat | Arts & Science | University of Lethbridge | Informal Logic - The Next 50 Years | $7,000 | 2025 |
| Takam, Alain | Arts & Science | University of Lethbridge | Sociolinguistic vitality in relation to the socioeconomic situation of French-speaking immigrants and refugees from sub-Saharan Africa in Alberta | $6,000 | 2025 |
| Vaid, Neha | Arts & Science | University of Lethbridge | Unraveling interaction between nitrogen nutrition and drought tolerance pathways in plants | $5,950 | 2025 |
| Vogelsang, Laura | Health Sciences | University of Lethbridge | Digital resources supporting efforts to decrease food insecurity within Canadian post-secondary students: A scoping review | $5,000 | 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. | $35,000 | 2025 |
| Larouche, Richard | Health Sciences | Universidad Andres Bello | Adaptation and validation of the Global Adolescent and Child Physical Activity Questionnaire for Chile | $30,000 | 2024 |
| Metz, Gerlinde | Arts & Science | Branch Out Neurological Foundation | Lethbridge Powerchair Soccer Community Intervention | $5,000 | 2024 |
| Coburn, Craig | Arts & Science | Alberta Energy Regulator | Spectral Library Construction and Mineral Absorption Analysis | $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? | $10,500 | 2024 |
| Yevtushenko, Dmytro | Arts & Science | Syngenta Canada Inc. | Disease management strategies for potato black dot in Canadian potatoes | $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 | $10,000 | 2024 |
| Ekstrand, Chelsea | Arts & Science | Brain Canada | Real-life recall: An fMRI exploration of episodic memory in the real-world | $10,000 | 2024 |
| Marynowski, Richelle | Education | For the Learning of Mathematics | For the Learning of Mathematics | $16,000 | 2024 |
| Wiseman, Steve | Arts & Science | Canada Water Agency | Water quality monitoring in selected watersheds impaired by wildfire | $156,580 | 2024 |
| Elder, Steph | Arts & Science | Actua | Strategic Science Fund (SSF) | $70,000 | 2024 |
| Mattatall, Chris | Education | Alberta Advisory Committee for Educational Studies | Using a Book Study as Professional Development for Teachers Teaching Reading | $6,000 | 2024 |
| Metz, Gerlinde | Arts & Science | Canadian Space Agency | Human Adaptation to Spaceflight: An Integrated Metabolomic Analysis of ISS Data | $225,000 | 2024 |
| Spencer, Locke | Arts & Science | Alberta Innovates | Space and Defence | $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 | $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 | $2,500 | 2024 |
| Drollinger, Tanya | Business | MITACS Inc. | MITACS Teacher Time Machine | $15,000 | 2024 |
| Hoover, Shelley | Arts & Science | MITACS Inc. | Influence of diet, stock, and chemotherapeutics on Lotmaria passim infections in honey bees | $150,000 | 2024 |
| Li, Fangfang | Arts & Science | Government of Alberta | Building an Integrative Research and Assesment Hub for Language and Communication Development | $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 | $30,000 | 2024 |
| Patel, Trushar | Arts & Science | Results Driven Agriculture Research | Towards Understanding Honey bee – Virus Communications | $298,000 | 2024 |
| Gerken, Michael | Arts & Science | MITACS Inc. | Synthesis of Cationic tungsten(VI) species stabilized by cyanoborate anions | $6,000 | 2024 |
| Hopkinson, Chris | Arts & Science | Natural Resources Canada | Hay River & Ft Simpson lidar wildfire fuel mapping | $39,994 | 2024 |
| Konschuh, Michele | Arts & Science | Gold Rain Rice Inc. | Polish Rice Seed Increase | $1,486 | 2024 |