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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hanrahan, Maura | Arts & Science | Parkland Institute | Assessing Water Security in an Albertan Metis Settlement: A Pilot Project to Build Knowledge for Appropriate Water Policy Development | Faculty Research Award | $4,894 | 2017 |
| Harrowing, Jean | Health Sciences | City of Lethbridge | Poverty and its effects among post-secondary students: A mixed-methods study | $3,000 | 2017 | |
| Hayes, Paul | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Protocol Development for Utilizing Bench-top NMR Spectrometers in an Inert Atmosphere Glove Box | Engage | $25,000 | 2017 |
| Henzi, Peter | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Environmental Structuring Of Individual Action In A Social Mammal | Discovery Grant | $165,000 | 2017 |
| Hopkinson, Chris | Arts & Science | Natural Resources Canada | SAR/Lidar synergism for flood plain characterisation | Research Contract | $187,500 | 2017 |
| Kolb, Bryan | Arts & Science | Brain Canada | Early years intervention on a First Nations Reserve | Special CIFAR Initiative | $3,461,100 | 2017 |
| Kovalchuk, Igor | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Breeding and genotyping new hemp varieties | Collaborative Research Development | $687,000 | 2017 |
| Kovalchuk, Olga | Arts & Science | MS Society Alberta | Mechanisms and alleviation of aging-enhanced white matter injury following demyelination | Alberta MS Collaboration | $50,000 | 2017 |
| Kovalchuk, Olga | Arts & Science | Sanofi Genzyme Canada | Mechanisms and alleviation of aging-enhanced white matter injury following demyelination | Alberta MS Collaboration | $50,000 | 2017 |
| Kukucha, Christopher | Arts & Science | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | IMPoRT: Investigating Multilevel Politics through Research in Trade | Partnership Development Grant | $15,000 | 2017 |
| Laird, Rob | Arts & Science | Alberta Conservation Association | Does senescence occur in Lemna minor in the wild? | Grants in Biodiversity | $4,900 | 2017 |
| Laird, Rob | Arts & Science | Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada | Induction and Termination of Diapause in the quarantine insect Trogoderma granarium ('khapra beetle') | Research Grant | $40,000 | 2017 |
| Lee, Bonnie | Health Sciences | Manitoba Liquor and Lotteries | A Realist Review to Elucidate the Mechanisms Explaining Adverse Childhood Experiences Impact on Couple Distress in Gambling Disorde | Manitoba Gambling Research Program Small Grant | $49,990 | 2017 |
| Li, Yutao | Business | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | An Investigation to Banks' Lending Networks | Insight Development Grant | $39,078 | 2017 |
| Malacrida, Claudia | Arts & Science | Secretariat on Responsible Conduct of Research | World Conference on Research Integrity | Travel Grant | $2,500 | 2017 |
| McNaughton, Bruce | Canadian Institutes of Health Research | The neural basis of cognitive reserve, the brain's principal defense against Alzheimer's dementia and normal age-related cognitive decline | Project Grant | $1,235,475 | 2017 | |
| Mohajerani, Majid | Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Probing the link between amyloid deposition, cortico-hippocampal network dysfunction and cognitive impairment in a second generation of transgenic mouse model of Alzheimer's disease | Project Grant | $688,500 | 2017 | |
| Mohajerani, Majid | Arts & Science | Alberta Prion Research Institute | Probing the impact of noradrenergic circuits and their role in resetting excitation/inhibition balance in Alzheimer's disease | Alberta Alzheimer Research Program | $199,950 | 2017 |
| Mohajerani, Majid | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Ventilated surgical, dissection & recovery systems for rodent research | Research Tools & Instruments | $150,000 | 2017 |
| Mosimann, Steven | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Structure and Function of PTP-like myo-inositol phosphatases | Discovery Grant | $180,000 | 2017 |
| Okine, Erasmus | Arts & Science | Canadian Institutes of Health Research | CIHR UG Studentship | Summer Studentship | $5,000 | 2017 |
| Okine, Erasmus | Arts & Science | Canadian Glycomics Network | Glyco-caged drug delivery to treat enteric inflammatory diseases in humans and livestock | Collaborative Team Grant | $27,000 | 2017 |
| Okine, Erasmus | Arts & Science | Tri-agency Institutional Programs Secretariat | Canada 150 Research Chair in Biophysics | Canada 150 Research Chairs | $1,750,000 | 2017 |
| Okine, Erasmus | Arts & Science | Canadian Glycomics Network | Glyco-caged drug delivery to treat enteric inflammatory diseases in humans and livestock | Collaborative Team Grant | $51,000 | 2017 |
| Okine, Erasmus | Arts & Science | Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada | Assessment of the Potential of Biochar to the Beef Cattle Diets to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Agriculture | Agricultural Greenhouse Gases Program | $1,167,500 | 2017 |
| Patel, Trushar | Arts & Science | Canada Foundation for Innovation | Interaction Studies of Purified Biomolecules | JELF associated with a CRC | $343,458 | 2017 |
| Patel, Trushar | Arts & Science | Canada Research Chairs | CRC in RNA & Protein Biophysics | Tier II CRC | $500,000 | 2017 |
| Patel, Trushar | Arts & Science | Health Canada | Towards better understanding of the critical host protein, DDX3-HCV RNA interactions | CanHepC Trainee Fellowship | $104,400 | 2017 |
| Pelech, Sharon | Education | Alberta Advisory Committee for Educational Studies | Exploring Beauty and Aesthetics in Science Education with Pre-Service Teachers | Alberta Teachers Association | $5,060 | 2017 |
| Pellis, Sergio | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Play and the development of the brain's social skills | Discovery Grant | $200,000 | 2017 |
| Pijl, Em | Health Sciences | City of Lethbridge | Implementation of Managed Alcohol | Operating Grant | $24,957 | 2017 |
| Rochdi, Nadia | Arts & Science | Alberta Environment Sustainable Resource Development | A Web-Based Monitoring System for Enhancing the Provincial Mapping and Monitoring Capability | AEP - Environmental Monitoring and Science Division | $100,000 | 2017 |
| Rochdi, Nadia | Arts & Science | Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute | Classification of Wetlands in Native Grasslands Using Optical and Synthetic Aperture Radar Remote Sensing | Research Grant | 2017 | |
| Roussel, Marc | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Theoretical studies of gene network dynamics | Discovery Grant | $160,000 | 2017 |
| Sanders, James | Health Sciences | PolicyWise for Children and Families | Primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention of prenatal alcohol exposure and effects | SAGE Secondary Use Grant | $5,000 | 2017 |
| Sedgwick, Monique | Health Sciences | Western Northern Region Canadian Association of Schools | An analysis of undergraduate student nurses' moral sensitivity during simulation | Research Award | $5,000 | 2017 |
| Spencer, Locke | Arts & Science | Alberta Economic Development and Trade | Calibration Suite for Far-Infrared Astrophysics Instrumentation | Small Equipment Grants | $150,000 | 2017 |
| Spencer, Locke | Arts & Science | Canada Foundation for Innovation | Calibration Suite for Far-Infrared Astrophysics Instrumentation | JELF associated with a CRC | $150,000 | 2017 |
| Spencer, Locke | Arts & Science | Canada Research Chairs | Canada Research Chair in Experimental Astrophysics | Tier II CRC renewal | $500,000 | 2017 |
| Sutherland, Robert | Arts & Science | University of Calgary | Keiko's U of C CREATE fund | NSERC CREATE Subaward | $13,333 | 2017 |
| Sutherland, Robert | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Hippocampus and memory: A systems level approach | Discovery Grant | $325,000 | 2017 |
| Sutherland, Robert | Arts & Science | Alzheimer Society of Alberta and Northwest Territories | Catalyzing fundamental dementia research at Lethbridge | Hope for Tomorrow Dementia Research Catalyst Grant | $500,000 | 2017 |
| Tata, Matthew | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | The Dynamics of Top-Down Attention: Predictive Coding Loops for Auditory Selective Attention | Discovery Grant | $29,000 | 2017 |
| Taylor, Aaron | Fine Arts | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Screen Acting and Embodied Cognition | Insight Grant | $98,970 | 2017 |
| Vasey, Paul | Arts & Science | National Institute of Health | A meta-analysis of male sexual orientation genetics | R21 | $20,000 | 2017 |
| Vilk, Greg | OVPR | Alberta Innovates Bio-Solutions | The Entreinvestor Program: Applied Understanding of the Investment Ecosystem for Effective Entrepreneurship Development | Student/Recent Graduate Entrepreneur Support Program | $10,000 | 2017 |
| Vilk, Greg | OVPR | Alberta Innovates | The Entreinvestor Training Program: An Experential Learning Program to Accelerate Entrepreneur-Investor Collisions | ISEE Program | $9,200 | 2017 |
| Wetmore, Stacey | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Modeling of molecular biomolecule interactions to improve on-device detection and sensitivity | Connect Grant | $3,120 | 2017 |
| Wetmore, Stacey | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Simulations of Biomolecular Interactions to Support Product Development | Engage | $25,000 | 2017 |
| Wieden-Kothe, Ute | Arts & Science | Canadian Institutes of Health Research | 11th International Ribosome Synthesis Conference | Planning and Dissemination Grant | $10,000 | 2017 |