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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burg, Theresa | Arts & Science | Alberta Conservation Association | Plumage polymorphism in ruffed grouse (Bonasa umbellus): genetics and behaviour | Biodiversity Fund | $5,410 | 2016 |
| Burleigh, Dawn | Education | Alberta Advisory Committee for Educational Studies | Understanding Perspectives on Practicum Supervision by University Consultants and Student Teachers in a Faculty of Education: A Case Study | AACES | $5,000 | 2016 |
| Caspar, Sienna | Health Sciences | Alberta Health Services | The Stakeholder Inclusion in Practice Change Project: Enabling Person-Centred Mealtime Experiences in LTC | Research Grant | $53,070 | 2016 |
| Chasmer, Laura | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | FIre fuel consumption, Severity and ecosystem response Indicators using LiDAR (FISIL) | Discovery Grant | $145,000 | 2016 |
| Chasmer, Laura | Arts & Science | Alberta Environment Protection Agency | Remote sensing wetland ecosystem change detection method development | Oil Sands Monitoring Funding | $580,000 | 2016 |
| Christensen, Darren | Health Sciences | Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Piloting the addition of Contingency Management to best practice counselling as an adjunct treatment for rural and remote disordered gamblers | Prairie CRISM Node Development Fund | $15,000 | 2016 |
| Currie, Cheryl | Health Sciences | Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Building Wellness and Resilience in Multi-Generational Indigenous Households: A Scoping Review | Operating grant - SPOR PIHCI Network Knowledge Synthsis Grant | $25,000 | 2016 |
| D'Agnone, Penny | Arts & Science | Branch Out Neurological Foundation | Branch Out Undergrad Awards | Undergraduate Stipends | $6,375 | 2016 |
| Das, Saurya | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Quantum Gravity and Cosmology: Theoretical and Phenomenological Aspects | Discovery Grant | $20,000 | 2016 |
| Doan, Jon | Arts & Science | Branch Out Neurological Foundation | Branch Out: Bykowski | Studentship | $1,000 | 2016 |
| Fazly, Mostafa | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | New developments for partial differential equations; from theory to applications | Discovery Grant | $55,535 | 2016 |
| Ghazalian, Pascal | Arts & Science | CANFAX | The Cost of Trade Barriers to the Canadian Beef Industry: An Empirical Investigation | Contract | $22,500 | 2016 |
| Gibb, Robbin | Arts & Science | Private donation | THC: Project Gibb | Research Grant | $9,500 | 2016 |
| Gibb, Robbin | Arts & Science | Alberta Innovates Health Solutions | Research Allowance- AIHS Anna Kovalchuk | Research Allowance | $2,000 | 2016 |
| Goater,Cameron | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Altered behaviour in trematode-infected zombie ants: field and experimental tests of the manipulation hypothesis | CREATE | $24,000 | 2016 |
| Golsteyn, Roy | Arts & Science | Alberta Innovates Health Solutions | Preclinical investigation of PP-006, a novel natural product molecule with anti-cancer activity | Sustainability Fund | $32,420 | 2016 |
| Golsteyn, Roy | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Investigation of mitosis in human cells using novel small molecule inhibitors | Discovery Grant | $140,000 | 2016 |
| Golsteyn, Roy | Arts & Science | Donation | Prairie to Pharmacy Program | Donation | $25,000 | 2016 |
| Greidanus, Elaine | Education | Government of Alberta | Literature Review and Analysis of Public Attitudes Towards Indigenous Women - AB ministry | Aboriginal Relations Grant | $21,000 | 2016 |
| Gruber, Aaron | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Improved Machine Learning Technology for Automated Software Quality Control | Engage Grant | $25,000 | 2016 |
| Gruber, Aaron | Arts & Science | Alberta Innovates Health Solutions | The effect of a prevalent Albertan parasite on brain health | Research Allowance | $15,000 | 2016 |
| Gruber, Aaron | Arts & Science | Alberta Innovates Health Solutions | The effect of a prevalent Albertan parasite on brain health | Stipend | $150,000 | 2016 |
| Gruber, Aaron | Arts & Science | Alberta Innovates Health Solutions | Bridge to CIHR success: effect of abused drugs on learning and memory | Sustainability Fund | $36,200 | 2016 |
| Harrison, Trevor | Arts & Science | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Case Studies in Corporate Mapping | Corporate Mapping Partnership Project | $5,000 | 2016 |
| Hazendonk, Paul | Arts & Science | Alberta Innovates Technology Futures | High Performance Plastics Through Energy Efficient Rotational Molding | Applied Research & Innovation Activities | $60,000 | 2016 |
| Hopkinson, Christopher | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Landcover response to changing energy and moisture regimes within boreal and montane ecosystem transition zones_ a multiscale approach | Discovery Grant | $230,500 | 2016 |
| Hopkinson, Christopher | Arts & Science | Alberta Innovates Energy and Environment Solutions | The Castle Watershed; a new water resource assessment framework for a sentinel system at the crown of the continent | Water Innovation Program | $300,000 | 2016 |
| Hopkinson, Christopher | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Landcover response to changing energy and moisture regimes within boreal and montane ecosystem transition zones_ a multiscale approach | Discovery Grant - Accelerator | $120,000 | 2016 |
| Hosgood, Christopher | Health Sciences | Alberta Innovates Health Solutions | AIHS HRNI: Brassolotto | Health Research New Investigator Award | $813,125 | 2016 |
| Kavanagh, Mary | Fine Arts | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Atomic Tourist: Trinity | Insight Grant | $147,519 | 2016 |
| Kelley, Helen | Business | Covenant Health | Quality Assessment of Assisted Living Versus Long Term Care Model | Seed grant | $5,000 | 2016 |
| Kingfisher, Catherine | Arts & Science | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Expanding Policies of Wellbeing: A Participatory Ethnographic Analysis of Urban Collective Housing Communities in Tokyo and Vancouver | Insight Grant | $106,810 | 2016 |
| Kovalchuk, Igor | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Epigenetic variations in hemp cultivars grown in contrasting environments | Engage Grant | $25,000 | 2016 |
| Kovalchuk, Igor | Arts & Science | Alberta Innovates Health Solutions | Prediction and Understanding of Resilience in Alberta Families | CRIO | $239,821 | 2016 |
| Kovalchuk, Igor | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Epigenetic variations in hemp cultivars grown in contrasting environments | Engage Grant | $25,000 | 2016 |
| Kovalchuk, Olga | Arts & Science | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre | POETIC Epigenetics Developmental Laboratory | POETIC | $1,000,000 | 2016 |
| Kovalchuk, Olga | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | EXOSOMES - NOVEL MEDIATORS OF DIRECT AND BYSTANDER RADIATION EFFECTS ON THE BRAIN | Discovery Grant | $195,000 | 2016 |
| Laird, Gillian | Arts & Science | Canada Research Chairs | Dr. Athan Zovoilis CRC Nomination | JELF | $500,000 | 2016 |
| Leung, Brenda | Health Sciences | Alberta Health Services | Exploring the mental healthcare needs of children in Alberta | Health Outcomes Improvement Fund | $48,535 | 2016 |
| Leung, Brenda | Health Sciences | Canadian CAM Research Fund | Pilot study of acupuncture to treat anxiety in children and adolescents | CCRF | $5,000 | 2016 |
| Leung, Brenda | Health Sciences | Alberta Health Services | Metabolomics profiling of metabolic function in pregnant women: assessing an innovation for precision medicine | Seed grant | $10,000 | 2016 |
| Li, Fangfang | Arts & Science | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Speech production in children enrolled in second language education programs | Insight Grant | $151,495 | 2016 |
| Li, Fangfang | Arts & Science | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Alberta child language acquisition research: Weaving an integrative and inclusive network | Connections Grant | $28,153 | 2016 |
| Li, Fangfang | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | The development of child speech articulation: Longitudinal and cross-language perspectives | Discovery Grant | $20,000 | 2016 |
| Li, Hua | Arts & Science | Canada Foundation for Innovation | Platform for Advanced Design Leading to Manufacturing in Micro-Nano Technologies | Innovation Fund | $0 | 2016 |
| Logue, David | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Subaward: The nature, function and evolution of signal complexity in animal and human communication systems | Discovery Grant | $20,000 | 2016 |
| McNaughton, Bruce | Arts & Science | European Commission | Investigation of local and global cortical circuits with advanced neural probes for high-resolution | No cost participant research grant | $0 | 2016 |
| McNaughton, Bruce | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Hippocampal cortical interactions and the extraction of knowledge from episodic memory | Discovery Grant | $450,000 | 2016 |
| Metz, Gerlinde | Arts & Science | Branch Out Neurological Foundation | The Effects of Prenatal Stress on Immune Activation and the Severity of Multiple Sclerosis in an Animal Model | Studentship | $1,000 | 2016 |
| Metz, Gerlinde | Arts & Science | Branch Out Neurological Foundation | Understanding the Impact of Early Experience on MS Risk | Studentship | $1,000 | 2016 |