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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Environment Canada | Genetic structure of declining aerial insectivores | Contract | $36,750 | 2023 |
| Burg, Theresa | Arts & Science | Alberta Environment & Parks | Genetic analysis of Greater Sage-grouse field samples (2023-2025) | Contract | $45,000 | 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 |
| Chasmer, Laura | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | New insights into managed peatland GHG emissions across Canada: Quantifying and scaling emissions from peatland fire and developing fire risk indicators | Alliance Grant | $30,000 | 2023 |
| Das, Saurya | Arts & Science | Shastr Indo-Canadian Institute | Classical and Quantum Gravity from the Infrared to the Ultraviolet | Faculty Collaboration and Internationalization | $5,000 | 2023 |
| Giroux, Monique | Fine Arts | Tri-Agency Institutional Programs Secretariat | Metis Music | Canada Research Chairs | $500,000 | 2023 |
| Kovalchuk, Igor | Arts & Science | MITACS Inc. | Facebook AD development for Sexy shroom targeting american men over 50 | Business Strategy Internship | $15,000 | 2023 |
| Prete, Tiffany | Arts & Science | Canada Foundation for Innovation | CRC in Indigenous Resliency | JELF | $69,262 | 2023 |
| Prete, Tiffany | Arts & Science | Tri-Agency Institutional Programs Secretariat | Tier 2 CRC in Indigenous Resiliency | Canada Research Chairs | $500,000 | 2023 |
| Shapiro, Sidney | Business | MITACS Inc. | Cattle Health Management Data and App Strategy Development | Business Strategy Internship | $15,000 | 2023 |
| Yevtushenko, Dmytro | Arts & Science | Syngenta Canada Inc. | Profiling oxathiapiprolin and fluazinam for management of powdery scab in potato. | Contract | $20,000 | 2023 |
| Basil, Debra | Business | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Improving the immigrant settlement process through community-based social marketing | Insight Grant | $124,740 | 2023 |
| Bogard, Matthew | Arts & Science | Tri-Agency Institutional Programs Secretariat | Tri-Agency Institutional Programs Secretariat | Canada Research Chairs | $500,000 | 2023 |
| Bonnaventure, Philip | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Climatic, geomorphic and ecosystem driven multi-scale permafrost modelling and testing | Discovery Grant | $40,000 | 2023 |
| Brassolotto, Julia | Health Sciences | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Autonomy and vulnerability: A feminist political economy analysis of medical assistance in dying in a post-Bill C-7 Canada | Insight Grant | $307,372 | 2023 |
| Burg, Theresa | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Evolution of high latitude birds | Discovery Grant | $200,000 | 2023 |
| Chasmer, Laura | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Spatio-temporal variations in wildland fire fuel connectivity and behaviour using multi-data anlytics | Discovery Grant | $275,000 | 2023 |
| Euston, David | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Risk, Reinforcement Schedules, and Dopamine | Discovery Grant | $165,000 | 2023 |
| Henzi, Peter | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Contingency and Specificity in the Structure and Dynamics of Social Behaviour in Baboons and Vervet Monkeys | Discovery Grant | $235,000 | 2023 |
| Leca, JB | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Mechanisms and evolution of material culture in primates: Does object play facilitate tool use? | Discovery Grant | $268,690 | 2023 |