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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burg, Theresa | Arts & Science | Ministry of Environment and Protected Areas | Response of endangered sage-grouse to oil and gas reclamation in critical habitat in southeastern Alberta | Enhancing Environmental Science in Alberta-OCS | $74,080 | 2024 |
| Chasmer, Laura | Arts & Science | Ministry of Environment and Protected Areas | Carbon storage at risk: The impacts of fire on C losses from Alberta peatlands and assessing peatland vulnerability to high intensity fires | MoU with ULethbridge | $37,000 | 2024 |
| Flanagan, Larry | Arts & Science | Ministry of Environment and Protected Areas | Response of ecosystem carbon sequestration to variation in water availability associated with El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) climate phases | Enhancing Environmental Science in Alberta (EESA) | $66,000 | 2024 |
| Goater, Cameron | Arts & Science | Alberta Conservation Association | Altered behaviour and transmission ecology of fluke-infected zombie ants | ACA Grants in Biodiversity | $13,400 | 2024 |
| Hallstrom, Lars | Arts & Science | Village of Stirling | A proposal in response to RPF No. 04-2024 Community Needs Assessment | Contract | $199,384 | 2024 |
| Hopkinson, Chris | Arts & Science | Ministry of Environment and Protected Areas | A remote sensing-based regional and temporal assessment of Albertaís lake water resources | Enhancing Environmental Science in Alberta | $65,000 | 2024 |
| Jonson, Dan | Arts & Science | Ministry of Environment and Protected Areas | Diversity, abundance, and biomass of key insects in wildlife food webs in Alberta Protected Areas | Enhancing Environmental Science in Alberta | $59,400 | 2024 |
| Konschuh, Michele | Arts & Science | Polar Foods Inc. | Exploring Rice Germplasm for Production in Alberta | Contract | $2,695 | 2024 |
| McCune, Jenny | Arts & Science | Alberta Conservation Association | Predictive mapping of rare vegetation communities in Waterton Lakes National Park | Graduate Student Research Grant | $10,000 | 2024 |
| McMartin, Dena | Senior Admin | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | IDEA (Innovation-Design-Entrepreneur-Access) Hub | Lab to Market grants Letter of Intent (LOI) | $200,000 | 2024 |
| Stanford, Kim | Arts & Science | MITACS Inc. | Improved detection of Shiga toxin producing E. coli | Accelerate | $15,000 | 2024 |
| Wiseman, Steve | Arts & Science | Ministry of Environment and Protected Areas | Combined effects of water temperature and urban runoff-associated contaminants on rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) and brown trout (Salmo trutta) | Enhancing Environmental Science in Alberta | $70,000 | 2024 |
| Yevtushenko, Dmytro | Arts & Science | Results Driven Agriculture Research | Strategies to manage powdery scab of potatoes in Alberta. | Agriculture Funding Consortium | $74,565 | 2024 |
| Bogard, Matthew | Arts & Science | Ducks Unlimited Canada | Contract for wetland greenhouse gas analyses 2024 | Contract | $18,000 | 2024 |
| Hobbs, David | Arts & Science | Modern Languages Association | Emerging Indigenous Writers Series | MLA Pathways Step grant | $9,850 | 2024 |
| Hoover, Shelley | Arts & Science | Canadian Honey Council | Exploring the queen gut microbiome as a diagnostic tool and in response to aging and mating | Canadian Bee Research Fund | $6,000 | 2024 |
| Hopkinson, Chris | Arts & Science | Alberta Environment & Parks | LIDAR Snow Survey Project | Special Grant | $50,000 | 2024 |
| Metz, Gerlinde | Arts & Science | Univeristy of Calgary | Maternal Social Isolation as a Risk Factor for Adverse Developmental Trajectories in the Offspring | One Child Every Child | $50,000 | 2024 |
| Wiseman, Steve | Arts & Science | MITACS Inc. | Development of Novel Toxicity Testing Assays for Fishes | Global Research Awards | $12,000 | 2024 |
| Akbary, Hamid | Arts & Science | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Is there still a European bias towards immigrants in Canada? A comparative study of the recent cohorts of Afghan and Ukrainian refugees | Insight Development Grant | $65,629 | 2024 |
| Burg, Theresa | Arts & Science | Environment and Climate Change Canada | Genomics analysis of oystercatcher and gull samples collected from summer and wintering birds in the north Pacific Ocean | Contract | $26,500 | 2024 |
| Hobbs, David | Arts & Science | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Red Prairie: Dorothy Livesay and the Occluded Literary Culture of the 1930s | Insight Development Grant | $39,333 | 2024 |
| Jacobson-Konefall, Jessica | Fine Arts | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Making Kin and Being Here in a Good Way: Winnipeg cultural politics in contemporary arts | Insight Development Grant | $58,167 | 2024 |
| Konschuh, Michele | Arts & Science | Alberta Potato Investment Fund | Evaluating differences in soil health parameters in irrigation expansion acres | Call for proposals | $185,000 | 2024 |
| Konschuh, Michele | Arts & Science | Potato Growers of Alberta | Powdery Scab on Rotational Crops | Call for proposals | $107,525 | 2024 |
| Kovalchuk, Igor | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Autonomous Mapping, Identification, and Eradication of Cannabis-Damaging Pests and Pathogens with Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence | Idea to Innovation | $20,000 | 2024 |
| McMartin, Dena | Senior Admin | Secretariat for Responsible Conduct of Research | A Three-Prong Approach to Initiating Discussions Around Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) | SRCR Education & Training Support Grants | $8,942 | 2024 |
| Shapiro, Sidney | Business | MITACS Inc. | Data-Driven Management and Stakeholder Engagement for Sustainable Cattle Management | Accelerate | $30,000 | 2024 |
| Tata, Matthew | Arts & Science | Government of Alberta | Machine Learning for Time-Series Biological Sensor Data | Major Innovation Fund | $48,375 | 2024 |
| Tetarenko, Alexandra | Arts & Science | Canadian Space Agency | What is the Origin of the Mysterious Infrared Excess in Quiescent Black Hole Binaries? | JWST AO Cycle 3 | $50,000 | 2024 |
| Williams, Robert | Health Sciences | Alberta Gambling Research Institute | Canadian Provincial Delivery of Gambling: Strengths and Weaknesses of Each Province's Model | Major Grant | $235,843 | 2024 |
| Asselin, Jodie | Arts & Science | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Forest Stories: the cultural implications of climate-related land use change in rural Ireland | Insight Development Grant | $60,000 | 2024 |
| Benkoczi, Robert | Arts & Science | Government of Alberta | Reslient and clean energy systems | Major Innovation Fund | $320,000 | 2024 |
| Burg, Theresa | Arts & Science | Environment and Climate Change Canada | Genomics analysis of oystercatcher and gull samples collected from summer and wintering birds in the north Pacific Ocean | Contract | $25,000 | 2024 |
| Euston, David | Arts & Science | Alberta Gambling Research Institute | AGRI Research Supplement | Graduate Scholarship research stipend | $3,000 | 2024 |
| Konschuh, Michele | Arts & Science | Potato Growers of Alberta | Coordinating Soil Health Research in Southern Alberta | Alberta Potato Industry Fund | $14,375 | 2024 |
| McMartin, Dena | Senior Admin | Alberta Environment & Parks | Enhancing Environmental Science in Alberta (24GROCS01) | Ministerial Grant | $500,000 | 2024 |
| Mesler, Rhiannon | Business | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Tainted Altruism? Investigating the Impact of "sin industry" donations on charitable support | Insight Development Grant | $70,514 | 2024 |
| Patel, Trushar | Arts & Science | Tri-Agency Institutional Programs Secretariat | Canada Biomedical Research Fund | Canada Biomedical Research Fund | $10,000 | 2024 |
| Thakor, Nehal | Arts & Science | Cancer Research Society | Regulation of mRNA Translation by eIF5B in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma | Operating Grant | $130,000 | 2024 |
| Christensen, Darren | Health Sciences | Alberta Gambling Research Institute | Pathways to Treatment | Major Grant | $159,845 | 2023 |
| Jayas, Digvir | Arts & Science | Lethbridge College | Early stage sprouting detection using advanced imaging techniques | Lethbridge College Funds | $21,000 | 2023 |
| McDonald, Robert | Arts & Science | Alberta Innovates | Multiple memory networks: plasticity mechanisms, representations, and behaviour | NSERC AI supplement advance stream I | $40,000 | 2023 |
| McMartin, Dena | Senior Admin | Alberta Innovates | HYRS/SRS program 2024-2025 | HRYS/SRS Program | $300,000 | 2023 |
| Patel, Trushar | Arts & Science | MITACS Inc. | Molecular Standards for AUC Validation and GMP Practices | Accelerate | $135,000 | 2023 |
| Williams, Robert | Health Sciences | Alberta Gambling Research Institute | Attachment and Addictive Behaviors | Major Grant | $10,000 | 2023 |
| Bogard, Matthew | Arts & Science | Town of High River | Monitoring contract with Town of High River | Contract | $200,000 | 2023 |
| Burg, Theresa | Arts & Science | Alberta Environment & Parks | Genetic analysis of Greater Sage-grouse field samples (2023-2025) | Contract | $45,000 | 2023 |
| Burg, Theresa | Arts & Science | Environment Canada | Genetic structure of declining aerial insectivores | Contract | $36,750 | 2023 |
| Burleigh, Dawn | Education | Alberta Advisory Committee for Educational Studies | Wellness Pathways: Undergraduate Student Needs in the Faculty of Education at the University of Lethbridge | Research grant | $6,000 | 2023 |