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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tata, Matthew | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Critical Refit and Upgrade to Electroencephalography lab at the University of Lethbridge | Research Tools & Instruments | $149,140 | 2022 |
| Wetmore, Stacey | Arts & Science | Alberta Technology and Innovation | Tools for Modeling the Chemistry of Modified Nucleic Acids | Research Capacity Program | $139,702 | 2022 |
| Wiseman, Steve | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Chemical Disruption of Oocyte Maturation - Species Sensitivities and Molecular Mechanisms | Discovery Grant | $235,000 | 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 |
| Bubel, Shawn | Arts & Science | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Investigating the Early Phases of Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump | Insight Grant | $212,330 | 2022 |
| Demeler, Borries | Arts & Science | Biomolecular Interaction Technologies Center | Towards accurate characterization of viral particle loading with Good Manufacturing Protocols (GMP) validated multi-wavelength AUC protocols. | Grant | $49,126 | 2022 |
| Gaur, Daya | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Quantum Approaches to Optimize Electrical Grid Operations | Alliance International Catlyst Quantum Grant | $24,934 | 2022 |
| Ghanbari, Hamed | Business | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Liquidity providers and market power in index derivatives markets | Insight Grant | $73,403 | 2022 |
| Hopkinson, Chris | Arts & Science | Columbia Wetlands Stewardship Partners | Upper Columbia River and Wetlands Remote Sensing | Jon Bisset & Associates | $42,000 | 2022 |
| Hopkinson, Chris | Arts & Science | Parks Canada | Mapping of forest biomass and wildfire fuels in the treed areas of Banff National park | Contribution Agreement | $15,000 | 2022 |
| Hopkinson, Chris | Arts & Science | Government of the Northwest Territories | Lidar-based large-area forest inventory mapping in the NWT - 2019 | Contribution Agreement | $25,000 | 2022 |
| Mansour, Jamal | Arts & Science | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Are you certain? Improving the collection, communication, and interpretation of eyewitness confidence in Canada | Insight Grant | $98,995 | 2022 |
| McDonald, Rob | Arts & Science | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Novel mutant mouse models of the sporadic version of Alzheimer's disease and targeted cannabinoid treatments | New Frontiers in Research - Exploration | $250,000 | 2022 |
| McMartin, Dena | Senior Admin | Alberta Innovates | STEM Fusion | Strategic Networking & Development | $4,665 | 2022 |
| Vasey, Paul | Arts & Science | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Developmental perspectives on kin selection and the evloution og male androphilia | Insight Grant | $257,148 | 2022 |
| Burg, Theresa | Arts & Science | Environment Canada | Genomics analysis of Oystercatcher and Gull samples collected on breeding colonies spanning the North Pacific Ocean | Contract | $39,999 | 2022 |
| Hogue, Michelle | Arts & Science | MITACS Inc. | Treaty 7 Womens' Research Initiative | Accelerate | $90,000 | 2022 |
| Hopkinson, Chris | Arts & Science | Parks Canada | Monitoring forest biomass post-fuel management, prescribed fire and wildfire in Banff National Park | Contract Admendment | $30,000 | 2022 |
| Hopkinson, Chris | Arts & Science | Natural Resources Canada | LiDAR data acquisition and research to support large-area forest inventory in the NWT | Contract | $38,060 | 2022 |
| Kellet, Peter | Health Sciences | MITACS Inc. | Establishing an evaluative framework to assess the effectiveness of Kairos Cognitive Model | Accelerate | $45,000 | 2022 |
| McMartin, Dena | Senior Admin | Environment Canada | Simulated oil spill dynamics and analysis | Contract | $22,000 | 2022 |
| Mesler, Rhiannon | Business | MITACS Inc. | Marketing and Data Analytics Innovative Systems Implementation | Business Strategy Internship | $45,000 | 2022 |
| Patel, Trushar | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Isothermal Titration Calorimetry for Studying Macromolecular Interactions | Research Tools & Instruments | $150,000 | 2022 |
| Stanley, Heather | Arts & Science | AMS Healthcare | Maternal Darkness: Postpartum Depression and Maternal Mental Illness in Western Canada, 1890-1980 | History of Medicine & Healthcare Small Grant | $9,984 | 2022 |
| Tata, Matthew | Arts & Science | MITACS Inc. | Ecological Interaction Perception in Multi-Talker Environments | Globalink | $6,000 | 2022 |
| Caspar, Sienna | Health Sciences | Brenda Strafford Foundation | TR Centre of Excellence Start Up | Grant | $140,000 | 2022 |
| Flanagan, Larry | Arts & Science | Results Driven Agriculture Research | Screening potato cultivars for variation in water-use efficiency: use of stable isotope techniques | Grant | $49,450 | 2022 |
| Hogue, Michelle | Arts & Science | MITACS Inc. | Treaty 7 Womens' Research Initiative | Accelerate | $10,000 | 2022 |
| Hopkinson, Chris | Arts & Science | Parks Canada | Airborne LiDAR acquisition, Jasper National Park | Contribution Agreement | $20,000 | 2022 |
| Hopkinson, Chris | Arts & Science | Government of the Northwest Territories | NWT forest inventory mapping & research with Lidar | Contribution Agreement | $25,000 | 2022 |
| McMartin, Dena | Senior Admin | Environment Canada | Comparison of the weathering of polar and non-polar organics in a simulated crude-oil spill in freshwater by Orbitrap and Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance Mass Spectrometry | New Funding | $22,000 | 2022 |
| Ng, Nathan | Arts & Science | Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences | L-functions in Analytic Number Theory | PIMS Scientific Research Panel research grant | $240,000 | 2022 |
| Yevtushenko, Dmytro | Arts & Science | Agriculture Funding Consortium | Establishing a Potato Pest and Disease Diagnostic Unit in southern Alberta. | Operating grant | $200,390 | 2022 |
| Beaulieu, Henrie | Arts & Science | Alberta Health Services | Indigenous Wellness Core Provincial Program Studentships and Seed Grant Competition | Scientific Office of the Indigenous Wellness Core | $6,000 | 2022 |
| Boenn, Georg | Fine Arts | MITACS Inc. | Designing State of the Art Web Applications to Support Music Education | Student entrepreneur | $80,000 | 2022 |
| Euston, David | Arts & Science | Alberta Gambling Research Institute | Reinforcement Schedules Underlying the Allure of Gambling | Major Grant | $48,898 | 2022 |
| Gaur, Daya | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Quantum Approaches to optimize Electrical Grid Operations | NSERC Alliance International Quantum - Catalysis | $24,934 | 2022 |
| Gibb, Robbin | Arts & Science | Alberta Recreation and Parks Association | Building Brains through Play with Lethbridge Housing Authority | Communities Choosewell-Healthy Community Grant | $4,675 | 2022 |
| Jiao, Feng | Business | MITACS Inc. | Examining the gig economy in the moving industry, building an application to match movers and those who want to move | Student entrepreneur | $60,000 | 2022 |
| Konschuh, Michele | Arts & Science | MITACS Inc. | Evaluation of Upland Rice Production in Southern Alberta | MITACS Accelerate | $30,000 | 2022 |
| Mohajerani, Majid | Arts & Science | Canada Foundation for Innovation | Innovative Brain Imaging Techniques for Aging-Associated Diseases | JELF | $563,466 | 2022 |
| Montina, Tony | Arts & Science | Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada | The Potential of Sweetgrass in Prairie Grasslands Carbon Sequestration | AgriScience Program | $62,000 | 2022 |
| Bogard, Matthew | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Environmental impacts of complex effluent release to a model prairie aquatic network | Alliance | $995,000 | 2022 |
| Doan, Jon | Arts & Science | MITACS Inc. | Renewable ergonomics: Developing sustainable work practices in the Canadian onshore wind industry | Accelerate | $45,000 | 2022 |
| Luczak, Artur | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Training Biology Students for Jobs in Data Science (TrainBioData) | CREATE LOI | 2022 | |
| Bogard, Matthew | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Effect of salinization on methane and phosphorus cycling and interactions in the Canadian Prairies inland waters | Postdoctoral Fellowship Program | $90,000 | 2022 |
| Bogard, Matthew | Arts & Science | Alberta Conservation Association | Defining the hotspots and controls of harmful algal bloom growth and toxicity in Upper Little Bow River network | Biodiversity | $18,190 | 2022 |
| Coburn, Craig | Arts & Science | MITACS Inc. | The Interplay of Remote Sensing Research and Technology with the Archaeological Record | Accelerate | $90,000 | 2022 |
| Gaur, Daya | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Algorithms and lower bounds for monotone dualization and tensor decomposition of constraint satisfaction hypergraphs | NSERC Alliance International - Catalysis | $24,987 | 2022 |
| Gibb, Robbin | Arts & Science | Blue Cross | Building Brains Play Kits for Foodbank Users | Grassroots program | $3,000 | 2022 |