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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hopkinson, Chris | Arts & Science | Western Economic Diversification | MS Lidar for resource monitoring, reclamation, risk assessment and disaster recovery | Western Diversification Program | $1,194,000 | 2018 |
| Hughes, Bryn | Fine Arts | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | The Effect of Style of Musical Syntax | Insight Development Grant | $27,323 | 2018 |
| Iwaniuk, Andrew | Arts & Science | Canada Research Chairs | Canada Research Chair In Comparative Neuroanatomy | Tier II renewal | $500,000 | 2018 |
| Johnson, Dan | Arts & Science | Agri-Science Cluster (Canola Cluster) | Cabbage seedpod weevil Ceutorhynchus obstrictus, native weevils, and the parasitoid wasp Trichomalus perfectus | Canola Cluster 5.1, Agri-Science Cluster | $100,000 | 2018 |
| Kharaghani, Hadi | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Special orthogonal matrices, existence, enumeration, and applications | Discovery Grant | $105,000 | 2018 |
| Kovalchuk, Igor | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Mechanism of control of pathogen infection in Cannabis sativa using copper ions | Engage Grant | $24,990 | 2018 |
| Kovalchuk, Igor | Arts & Science | MITACS Inc. | Phenotyping and genotyping collection of Cannabis sativa lines | Accelerate Grant | $405,000 | 2018 |
| Kovalchuk, Olga | Arts & Science | MITACS Inc. | Phenotyping and genotyping a collection of Cannabis Sativa lines | Accelerate Grant | $90,000 | 2018 |
| Kovalchuk, Olga | Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Friend or foe: cannabis and the brain - from safety analysis to medical applications | Catalyst Grant | $100,000 | 2018 | |
| Laird, Rob | Arts & Science | Alberta Conservation Association | Biodiversity and distribution of cryptic duckweed species in Alberta | Research Grant | $25,000 | 2018 |
| Le Roy, Dan | Arts & Science | Western Grains Research Foundation | Economic value of diversified cropping systems | Research contract | $274,045 | 2018 |
| LeBlanc, Robert | Education | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Crossing Southern Alberta: Stylized Speech Amongst Immigrant Teens in a Rural Meatpacking Town | Insight Development Grant | $47,248 | 2018 |
| Leca, JB | Arts & Science | Alberta Gambling Research Institute | Development of an Ecologically Valid Non-Human Primate Model of Gambling | Major Research Grant | $30,000 | 2018 |
| Leween, Jackson | Fine Arts | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Indigenous Arts and Transdisciplinary Praxis | Insight Development Grant | $73,496 | 2018 |
| Lupton, Nathan | Business | MITACS Inc. | Learning Process and Moving-Up-the-Value-Ladder from Offshore Outsourcing in Ready-Made-Garments (RMG) Firm | Mitacs Globalink Research Award | $6,000 | 2018 |
| MacCormack, Jeffrey | Education | Alberta Education | Pre-service teachers' practicum stress, beliefs about teaching and inclusive practices, and executive functions | Innovation in Teacher Education | $34,327 | 2018 |
| MacDonald, Adrianne | Business | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Navigating Paradoxical Tensions with Sense-making Tools: A Study of Lego Serious Play for Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships | Insight Development Grant | $44,391 | 2018 |
| McCormick, Peter | Arts & Science | Courts Administration Service | Federal Court 50th | 50th anniversary of the Federal Courts | $44,830 | 2018 |
| Metz, Gerlinde | Arts & Science | March of Dimes Foundation | Novel receptor antagonists | Prematurity Research Initiative Program | $11,000 | 2018 |
| Metz, Gerlinde | Arts & Science | NIH | Using 'omics to build an atlas of placental development and function across | RO1 | $43,826 | 2018 |
| Metz, Gerlinde | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Critical Periods of Experience-dependent Brain Plasticity | Discovery Grant | $510,000 | 2018 |
| Mohajerani, Majid | Arts & Science | Alberta Prion Research Institute | Development of Smart Home Cage System for High Throughput Longitudinal Monitoring and Analysis of Animal Health, Behavior and Brain Activity | Exploration Program | $120,000 | 2018 |
| Mohajerani, Majid | Arts & Science | Alzheimer Society of Alberta and NWT | Determining relation between traffic noise stress, amyloid deposition, brain connectivity and cognitive impairment | Alberta Alzheimer Research Program | $150,000 | 2018 |
| Mohajerani, Majid | Arts & Science | Alzheimer Society of Alberta and NWT | Biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease: Investigation of their onset, origin, and longitudinal effects on neuronal connectivity, and animal behaviour | Alberta Alzheimer Research Program | $149,000 | 2018 |
| Mohajerani, Majid | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Gain control by vesicular zinc in cortical circuits of vision | Postdoctoral Fellowship | $90,000 | 2018 |
| Mombourquette, Carmen | Education | University of Calgary | TGSE Mombourquette C | TGSE Study | $6,000 | 2018 |
| Mueller, Richard | Arts & Science | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Literacy and numeracy skills and the education and labour market outcomes of refugees and their children | Partnership Grant | $12,000 | 2018 |
| Nicol, Lorraine | University Library | Alberta Real Estate Foundation | Advancements in Irrigation Agriculture with Implications for Economic and Community Development and Environmental Stewardship in Southern Alberta | Research Grant | $25,000 | 2018 |
| O'Donnell, Dan | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Digital Studies./Le champ numérique | Aid to Scholarly Journals | $90,000 | 2018 | |
| Okine, Erasmus | OVPR | Alberta Economic Development & Trade | GreenSTEM | GreenSTEM | $536,500 | 2018 |
| Oosterbroek, Tracy | Health Sciences | Canadian Institutes of Health Research | CIHR Institute of Population and Public Health: Starting Investigator Workshop | Travel Award - Institute Community Support Winter | $1,500 | 2018 |
| Patel, Trushar | Arts & Science | Alberta Innovates | Ribowest 2018 Conference Fund | Strategic Networking & Development Program | $5,000 | 2018 |
| Patel, Trushar | Arts & Science | Alberta Innovates | Towards Targeting Persistent Hepatitis B Virus Infection | Strategic Research Project | $639,498 | 2018 |
| Pijl, EM | Health Sciences | City of Lethbridge | Urban Social issues Study | Operating Grant | $10,000 | 2018 |
| Pras, Amandine | Fine Arts | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Sound Engineers' and Producers' Experiences of Micro-Aggressions in the Recording Studio | Partnership Engage | $24,956 | 2018 |
| Pras, Amandine | Fine Arts | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Digital studio socialities and music production practices - Ethnographies of Bamako's street studios and the Banff Centre's Audio Practicum | Insight Development Grant | $74,000 | 2018 |
| Rochdi, Nadia | Arts & Science | VERTEX Resource Group Ltd. | Temporal Trends of Normalized Difference Vegetation Index in Reclaimed Wellsites and Control areas | Fee for Service contract | $10,532 | 2018 |
| Rood, Stewart | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Diversity and Adaptation of Riparian Cottonwoods and Hybrid Poplars: Exploration and Syntheses | Discovery Grant | $33,000 | 2018 |
| Rood, Stewart | Arts & Science | Alberta Innovates | Sustaining Healthy River Valleys: Health Assessment Tools for the South Saskatchewan River Basin and other Dryland Rivers of Western North America | Water Innovation Program | $270,000 | 2018 |
| Runte, Mary | Business | Cardiac Arrhythmia Network of Canada | Mapping the Patient Journey | CANet Focused Investment Program | $240,000 | 2018 |
| Russell, Tony | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Non-coding RNAs and ribonucleoprotein complexes in unicellular eukaryotes | Discovery Grant | $160,000 | 2018 |
| Shin, Duckjung | Business | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Human Resource Management as a Social System within an Organization | Insight Development Grant | $31,536 | 2018 |
| Smith, Elwin | Arts & Science | Western Grains Research Foundation | Economic value of diversified cropping systems | Contract | $76,500 | 2018 |
| Smither, Devon | Fine Arts | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | "'All Who Care Enough to Want to See and Understand': The Whitney Women and American Modern Art, 1905-1930" | Insight Development Grant | $37,892 | 2018 |
| Stewart, D.Andrew | Fine Arts | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | 2018 IAST - Interactive Art, Science, and Technology in Western Canada | Connection Grant | $47,294 | 2018 |
| Sutherland, Rob | Arts & Science | Canadian Institutes of Health Research | The functional consequences of protein misfolding spreading through the brain | Planning & Dissemination | $20,000 | 2018 |
| Sutherland, Rob | Arts & Science | Sunnybrook Research Institute | SARTAN-AD Trial: RCT | Randomised Control Trial | $9,500 | 2018 |
| Tajbakhsh, Alireza | Business | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Agricultural Supply Chain Management: Perspectives of Sustainability-Conscious Policy-Makers in Canada | Insight Development Grant | $61,962 | 2018 |
| Tata, Mattew | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Brain Electrical Dynamics for Top-Down Auditory Attention | Discovery Grant | $165,000 | 2018 |
| Tata, Matthew | Arts & Science | MITACS Inc. | Brain-Inspired Artificial Intelligence for Sound Aware Robotics | Globalink Research Award | $6,000 | 2018 |