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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stanford, Kim | Arts & Science | Beef Cattle Research Council | Faster, cheaper, more accurate detection of Shiga toxin producing E. coli | Proof of Concept Study | $49,910 | 2023 |
| Tetarenko, Alexandra | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Unraveling how black holes power explosive outflows | Discovery Grant | $157,500 | 2023 |
| Thakor, Nehal | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Regulation of mRNA Translation During Cellular Stress and Apoptosis | Discovery Grant | $200,000 | 2023 |
| Hoover, Shelley | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Interactions between social bee behaviour and health | Discovery Grant | $202,500 | 2023 |
| Mansour, Jamal | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Measuring cognitive processes that predict eyewitness identification performance | Discovery Grant | $165,000 | 2023 |
| Tatsuno, Masami | Arts & Science | Alberta Innovates | Decoding sleeping brain activity: Integrating experiments and computational neuroscience to elucidate the cognitive benefit of sleep (supplement) | Advance Program Stream 1 | $40,000 | 2023 |
| Yevtushenko, Dmytro | Arts & Science | MITACS Inc. | LAMP assay development and qPCR validation of inoculum monitoring of diseases in field crops | Accelerate | $15,000 | 2023 |
| Zovoilis, Athan | Arts & Science | Genome Canada | Extension of Genome Canada Bionet Grant | Genome Alberta | $150,000 | 2023 |
| Bogard, Matthew | Arts & Science | Ducks Unlimited Canada | Linkages between biodiversity and greenhouse gas fluxes in Prairie wetlands | New Funding | $70,000 | 2023 |
| Gibb, Robbin | Arts & Science | HRJ Consulting | Building Brains Together with Lethbridge Housing Authority Program | Research grant | $137,900 | 2023 |
| Hallstrom, Lars | Arts & Science | MITACS Inc. | City-PSI Partnership Pathway Explorations | Accelerate | $75,000 | 2023 |
| Konschuh, Michele | Arts & Science | Lethbridge College | Potato Variety Evaluation | National Potato Variety Evaluation | $4,000 | 2023 |
| McCune, Jenny | Arts & Science | Parks Canada | Using distribution models to map rare vegetation communities and assessing trail impacts on plant communities in Waterton Lakes National Park | Operating Grant | $70,400 | 2023 |
| Mesler, Rhiannon | Business | MITACS Inc. | Cancel Culture: Who, What, Where, When, and why | Globalink | $6,000 | 2023 |
| Zovoilis, Athan | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Prep funds for the Sustainable Agriculture Grant | Sustainable Agriculture | $35,000 | 2023 |
| Leung, Brenda | Health Sciences | Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Patient Oriented Innovative Nutrition Trial (POINT): precision use of multinutrients for ADHD in youth | Catalyst Grant | $193,300 | 2023 |
| Shapiro, Sidney | Business | MITACS Inc. | Upgraded: Strategic Innovations in B2B Communication | Business Strategy Internship | $15,000 | 2023 |
| Vogelsang, Laura | Health Sciences | Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing | ChatGPT Use in Canadian Nursing Education | Pat Griffin Nursing Education Research Grant | $15,000 | 2023 |
| Vogelsang, Laura | Health Sciences | Western North-Western Region of Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing | Exploring the use of icebreakers in nursing education: Helpful or harmful? | Education Research Grant | $5,000 | 2023 |
| Kovalchuk, Igor | Arts & Science | MITACS Inc. | Omics tools for prediction and treatment of various medical conditions | Accelerate | $720,000 | 2023 |
| Belanger, Yale | Arts & Science | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Organisational Changes to Address Homelessness: Lessons Learned from 3 Mid-sized Canadian Cities | Insight Grant | $5,000 | 2023 |
| Chasmer, Laura | Arts & Science | MITACS Inc. | Fire fuel connectivity in the WUI determined from lidar | Globalink | $6,000 | 2023 |
| Doan, Jon | Arts & Science | Confederation of Alberta Faculty Association | 55+ Games participant activity survey - Wave 3 | President compensation | $15,000 | 2023 |
| Flanagan, Larry | Arts & Science | Environment Canada | Wetlands as nature-based climate-change solutions: Overhead General Research Fund | Contract | $4,293 | 2023 |
| Gibb, Robbin | Arts & Science | City of Lethbridge | Family Outdoor Play | Community Event Support Grant | $3,000 | 2023 |
| Goater, Cam | Arts & Science | Environment Canada | Distribution, density, and survival of the endemic land snail, Oreohelix cooperi, in Cypress Hills Park, Alberta | Priority Places | $51,960 | 2023 |
| Mills, Josie | Fine Arts | University of the Arts London | Prisoners of Love | Grant | $1,600 | 2023 |
| Mohajerani, Majid | Arts & Science | IRDC | Applying neuroengineering to solve problems in animal health and agriculture | IBRO-CBH Summer Research Internship Awards for Canadian Indigenous Undergraduate Students | $16,000 | 2023 |
| Baulkaran, Vishaal | Business | FP Canada Research Foundation | Leveraging Equity in Residential Property to Provide Retirement Income | Research grant | $28,060 | 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 | $54,000 | 2023 |
| Chasmer, Laura | Arts & Science | Natural Resources Canada | arboSense fuels | Innovative Solutions Canada | $23,000 | 2023 |
| Johnson, Dan | Arts & Science | FMC | Coccinellidae taxonomy and macrophotography | Grant | $3,000 | 2023 |
| Kovalchuk, Igor | Arts & Science | MITACS Inc. | Cultivation and Metabolic Profiling of Psychedelic Mushrooms | Accelerate | $120,000 | 2023 |
| Laird, Rob | Arts & Science | Alberta Conservation Association | Temporal scaling: Effects of light intensity and nutrient availability on variation in Lemna minor survival trajectories | Grants in Biodiversity | $12,550 | 2023 |
| Laird, Rob | Arts & Science | Alberta Conservation Association | The impact of spatio-temporal agricultural diversification on beneficial predatory insects | Grants in Biodiversity | $16,950 | 2023 |
| Stanford, Kim | Arts & Science | Alberta Irrigation Districts Association | Detecting pathogens in irrigation water | Contract | $36,000 | 2023 |
| Asselin, Jodie | Arts & Science | Mountain Network | Genome Canada project | Subcontract from U of C | $30,000 | 2023 |
| Bogard, Matthew | Arts & Science | Ducks Unlimited Canada | Contract for wetland greenhouse gas analyses 2023 | Contract | $10,000 | 2023 |
| Coburn, Craig | Arts & Science | MITACS Inc. | Locating Missing Grave Sites using Remote Piloted Aircraft Systems. | Accelerate | $30,000 | 2023 |
| Gonzalez, Claudia | Arts & Science | Reverb Robotics Inc. | Auditory Artificial Intelligence for Seniors in Care | Fee for service | $120,000 | 2023 |
| Hopkinson, Chris | Arts & Science | Tecterra | Geo-TANK: The Geospatial Technologies & Applications for New Knowledge Institute | PSE supp of geomatics students & technology | $1,310,000 | 2023 |
| Hopkinson, Chris | Arts & Science | MITACS Inc. | Ka ootshapatamihk | Business Strategy Internship | $30,000 | 2023 |
| Hopkinson, Chris | Arts & Science | Parks Canada | Waterton Kenow Fire recovery 2: MS lidar monitoring and ground calibration | Contribution Agreement | $60,000 | 2023 |
| Kovalchuk, Igor | Arts & Science | Results Driven Agriculture Research | Establishment of controlled environment systems for agricultural applications | Grant | $50,000 | 2023 |
| McMartin, Dena | Senior Admin | Alberta Innovates | AI PDF program | Postdoctoral Fellowship Program | $315,000 | 2023 |
| Metz, Gerlinde | Arts & Science | U of A | MS Tomorrow and CANPROCO Project | Fee for service | $40,000 | 2023 |
| Stanford, Kim | Arts & Science | Agriculture and Agri-Food | Pig-adapted strains of E. coli O157:H7? | Collaboration Agreement | $117,749 | 2023 |
| Thakor, Nehal | Arts & Science | American Brain Tumor Association | To Assess Eukaryotic Initiation Factor 5B as a Therapeutic Target in Glioblastoma | Discovery Grant | $50,000 | 2023 |
| Burg, Theresa | Arts & Science | Parks Canada | Using DNA to detect predators of sage grouse | Research contract | $4,848 | 2023 |
| Chali, Yllias | Arts & Science | Alberta Innovates | Text Summarization and Question Generation Models (Supplement) | NSERC Alliance - Alberta Innovates Advance Program | $32,000 | 2023 |