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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hopkinson, Chris | Arts & Science | Parks Canada | Waterton Kenow Fire recovery 2: MS lidar monitoring and ground calibration | Contribution Agreement | $60,000 | 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 |
| 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 |
| Das, Saurya | Arts & Science | McDonald Canadian Astroparticle Physics Research Institute | New insights into particle physics from quantum information and gravitational waves | Research Partnership Building Institute | $7,500 | 2023 |
| Elder, Steph | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Destination Exploration Traveling Lab Coats | PromoScience | $60,000 | 2023 |
| Gibb, Robbin | Arts & Science | Lowell Foundation | Early influences on brain development | Donation for research | $16,000 | 2023 |
| Leung, Brenda | Health Sciences | Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Cross sector co-creation of a Canadian model for collaborative and coordination of services for children and youth with complex mental healthcare needs | Planning and Dissemination Grant | $24,350 | 2023 |
| Zovoilis, Athan | Arts & Science | Canadian Institutes of Health Research | BioNet 2024 | Planning and Dissemination Grant | $15,000 | 2023 |
| Asselin, Jodie | Arts & Science | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Political forests and anthropology in Europe: Initial meeting of Forest Anthropology working group | Connection Grant | $25,000 | 2023 |
| Christensen, Darren | Health Sciences | Alberta Gambling Research Institute | The Naltrexone-Imaging Study: Adding a control arm | Postdoctoral Fellowship | $61,000 | 2023 |
| Genee, Inge | Arts & Science | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | A morphological model and intelligent dictionary for the Blackfoot language | Postdoctoral Fellowship | $90,000 | 2023 |
| Hallstrom, Lars | Arts & Science | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Moving In, Moving On & Moving Up: Examining Population Movements to and from Rural Canada | Connection Grant | $39,262 | 2023 |
| Leung, Brenda | Health Sciences | City of Lethbridge | CHRISA Unconference for healthcare services | Community Event Support Grant | $5,000 | 2023 |
| McGeough, Kevin | Arts & Science | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Busayra Cultural Heritage Project | Insight Development Grant | $72,030 | 2023 |
| McKenzie-Jones, Paul | Arts & Science | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Indigenous, Radically! | Connection Grant | $24,554 | 2023 |
| Mohajerani, Majid | Arts & Science | Alberta Innovates | Spontaneous activity, memory replay and the default mode network | Advance Program Stream 1 | $40,000 | 2023 |
| Stuart-Edwards, Anastasia | Business | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | From individual mindfulness to team success | Insight Development Grant | $60,804 | 2023 |
| Thakor, Nehal | Arts & Science | Cancer Research Society | Regulation of mRNA translation by eIF5B in glioblastoma | Operating Grant | $120,000 | 2023 |
| Tu, Ke (Christy) | Business | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | No hand up or hand out: Consumer status-related beliefts… | Insight Development Grant | $57,873 | 2023 |
| Walton, Mark | Arts & Science | Alberta Innovates | Phase Space Quantum Mechanics and the Quantum-Classical Relation | NSERC Alliance-AI Advance Program | $32,000 | 2023 |
| Adams, Carly | Arts & Science | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | A People's History of Sport in Canada | Insight Grant | $2,000 | 2022 |
| Zovoilis, Athan | Arts & Science | Alberta Innovates | Fusing Imaging of Neural and Behavioural Activity with third generation sequencing and single cell epitranscriptome analysis | LevMax | $200,000 | 2022 |
| Anvik, John | Arts & Science | MITACS Inc. | Interactive online engagement: Researching, developing, and integrating permission-based public ledgers | Accelerate | $80,000 | 2022 |
| Anvik, John | Arts & Science | MITACS Inc. | Expanding market strategies in the gig economy with respect to the moving industry | Business Strategy Internship | $45,000 | 2022 |
| Brassolotto, Julia | Arts & Science | Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Supporting safe and healthy sexual expression for people living with dementia in urban and rural long-term care settings | Project Grant | $56,784 | 2022 |
| Christensen, Darren | Health Sciences | Gambling Research Exchange Ontario | Positive Play | Research award | $5,760 | 2022 |
| Gaur, Daya | Arts & Science | Univeristy of Calgary | Quantum Utility of QAOA | Quantum Cioty applied Reseach program | $25,000 | 2022 |
| Hazendonk, Paul | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Optimization of Silver Nanowires Synthesis and Purification Processes for Commercially Viable Pilot Scale Production | Alliance | $40,000 | 2022 |
| Iwaniuk, Andrew | Arts & Science | Alberta Conservation Association | Population genomics of Ruffed Grouse in Alberta. | Research grant | $30,400 | 2022 |
| Kovalchuk, Igor | Arts & Science | Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Targeting Pten to unlock the regenerative potential of the mammalian retina | Grant | $30,625 | 2022 |
| Kovalchuk, Igor | Arts & Science | MITACS Inc. | Investigation into anti-diabetic, anti-microbial, and hypolipidemic properties of sorbus decora used in the management of diabetes | Globalink | $6,000 | 2022 |
| McMartin, Dena | Senior Admin | Alberta Innovates | AI Summer Studentship and HYRS Programs | Summer Studentships & HYRS Program | $130,000 | 2022 |
| McMartin, Dena | Senior Admin | Prairies Economic Development Canada | Niitsitapi Centre of Excellence for Work Integrated Learning (NCEWIL) | Regional Innovation Ecosystem Program | $868,300 | 2022 |
| McNaughton, Bruce | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Consolidation of cortical memory representations into hippocampus-independent form: neural ensemble dynamics and mechanisms | Discovery Grant | $420,000 | 2022 |
| Oosterbroek, Tracy | Health Sciences | Canadian Institutes of Health Research | An examination of harm reduction services available to people who use substance (PWUS) in Lethbridge, Alberta | CRISM Prairie Node support | $12,500 | 2022 |
| Schwarz, Kaylan | Liberal Education | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Constructing Feminist Identities Through Participatory Visual Methodologies | Insight Development Grant | $26,792 | 2022 |
| Zovoilis, Athan | Arts & Science | Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada | AAFC Univ of Lethbridge Lacombe collaboration | Research Agreement | $3,309 | 2022 |
| Zovoilis, Athan | Arts & Science | Results Driven Agriculture Research | Non-coding RNA sequencing Collaboration with Univ of Alberta | Grant | $337,500 | 2022 |
| Bailey, Jenna | Arts & Science | Alberta Medical Association | An Oral History of Neuroscience in southern Alberta | Alberta Medical Association Charitable Fund Project | $10,000 | 2022 |
| Benkoczi, Robert | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Models and algorithms for facility location | Discovery Grant | $40,000 | 2022 |
| Bogard, Matthew | Arts & Science | Alberta Innovates | Defining effluent cycling and impacts in an economically important watershed of southern Alberta | Water Innovation | $180,000 | 2022 |
| Flanagan, Larry | Arts & Science | Environment Canada | Wetlands as nature-based climate-change solutions: Quantifying carbon-capture potential while building a stronger green economy | Climate Action Awareness Fund | $620,000 | 2022 |
| Golsteyn, Roy | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Natural products as novel tools to investigate human cell division | Discovery Grant | $300,000 | 2022 |
| Gonzalez, Claudia | Arts & Science | Reverb Robotics Inc. | Pilot testing auditory artificial intelligence for seniors | Industry Partnership | $10,000 | 2022 |