Funding & statistics
Funding & statistics
uLethbridge attracts over $15 million annually in research funding from governmental agencies, industry, foundations and associations, and numerous international partners.
All funding received
Grants/funds Received
| Faculty member | Faculty/School | Agency | Project name | Funds awarded | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Luczak, Artur | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Training Biology Students for Jobs in Data Science (TrainBioData) | 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 | $18,190 | 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 | $90,000 | 2022 |
| Coburn, Craig | Arts & Science | MITACS Inc. | The Interplay of Remote Sensing Research and Technology with the Archaeological Record | $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 | $24,987 | 2022 |
| Gibb, Robbin | Arts & Science | Blue Cross | Building Brains Play Kits for Foodbank Users | $3,000 | 2022 |
| Gonzalez, Claudia | Arts & Science | MITACS Inc. | Auditory artificial intelligence for seniors in care | $120,000 | 2022 |
| Hallstrom, Lars | Arts & Science | MITACS Inc. | Social media with a purpose: Leveraging blockchain technology to create a new form of political communication amongst youth | $60,000 | 2022 |
| Harding, John | Arts & Science | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Global Shugendo: Japanese Mountain Asceticism in Global Discourses of Indigeneity | $140,000 | 2022 |
| Hoover, Shelley | Arts & Science | MITACS Inc. | The Royal Treatment: Improving honey bee queen health as the basis of integrated colony health | $120,000 | 2022 |
| Konschuh, Michele | Arts & Science | Results Driven Agriculture Research | Exploring Genomics of Potato Blackleg Resistance | $55,335 | 2022 |
| Konschuh, Michele | Arts & Science | Galaxy Ag Ventures Ltd. | Evaluation of Upland Rice Production in Southern Alberta | $12,000 | 2022 |
| Kovalchuk, Igor | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Special Response Fund for Trainees (Ukraine) | $70,000 | 2022 |
| Larouche, Richard | Health Sciences | Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Development and validation of the global adolescent and child physical activity questionnaire (GAC-PAQ): A multi-country study across six continents. | $1,526,176 | 2022 |
| Lee-Yaw, Julie | Arts & Science | Alberta Conservation Association | Evaluating the predictive performance of distribution models based on autonomous recording units using Calling western toads as a case study | $33,777 | 2022 |
| Matisz, Chelsea | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Investing host-viral interplay | $90,000 | 2022 |
| Matisz, Chelsea | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Investing host-viral interplay | $20,000 | 2022 |
| McMartin, Dena | Senior Admin | Alberta Innovates | AI PDF Program | $298,400 | 2022 |
| Metz, Gerlinde | Arts & Science | Genome Canada | Metabolomic Biomarkers to Diagnose Traumatic Brain Injury | 2022 | |
| Mills, Josie | Fine Arts | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Mootookakio'ssin: building relationships through outreach | $50,000 | 2022 |
| Patel, Trushar | Arts & Science | Canada Research Chairs | Investing host-viral interplay | $500,000 | 2022 |
| Wetmore, Stacey | Arts & Science | Canada Research Chairs | Canada Research Chair in Computational Chemistry | $1,400,000 | 2022 |
| Wetmore, Stacey | Arts & Science | Canada Foundation for Innovation | Tools for Modeling the Chemistry of Modified Nucleic Acids | $139,702 | 2022 |
| Young, Julie | Arts & Science | Canada Research Chairs | Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Critical Border Studies | $500,000 | 2022 |
| Byrne, Jim | Arts & Science | MITACS Inc. | Siksika Nation Climate Change and Renewable Energy: Mitigation, Adaptation, Resilience, Food Security, Economic Development | $170,000 | 2022 |
| Chasmer, Laura | Arts & Science | Alberta Environment Sustainable Resource Development | Remote Sensing Wetland ecosystem change detection method development | $9,114 | 2022 |
| Hamel, JD | Arts & Science | American Chemical Society | Fluorinative difunctionalization of [1.1.1]propellane: An avenue to new fluorinated bicyclo[1.1.1]pentane derivatives | $5,000 | 2022 |
| Hoover, Shelley | Arts & Science | Results Driven Agriculture Research | Effects of heat and drought on canola-pollinator interactions and crop yield | $150,000 | 2022 |
| Hoover, Shelley | Arts & Science | Canola Council of Canada | Effects of heat and drought on canola-pollinator interactions and crop yield | $109,900 | 2022 |
| Hopkinson, Chris | Arts & Science | MITACS Inc. | Create digital twins of local sites of interest and other locations | $50,000 | 2022 |
| Hossain, Shahadat | Arts & Science | MITACS Inc. | Using Social Network Analysis in Marketing | $15,000 | 2022 |
| Mathurin-Moe, Martha | Senior Admin | Tri-Agency Institutional Programs Secretariat | CRC EDI Stipend | $50,000 | 2022 |
| Patel, Trushar | Arts & Science | Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Identifying critical RNA-RNA interactions during ribosome biogenesis | $32,000 | 2022 |
| Patel, Trushar | Arts & Science | MITACS Inc. | Novel Protein Cages for Biotherapeutic Delivery | $15,000 | 2022 |
| Prete, Tiffany | Arts & Science | National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation | The Niitsitapi (the Real People) Stolen Children: Stories of Sur-vival | $7,000 | 2022 |
| Zovoilis, Athan | Arts & Science | Genome Alberta | COVID-19 Relief Program for Research Project “BioNet Alberta” | $67,292 | 2022 |
| Zovoilis, Athan | Arts & Science | University of Alberta | Part 2 of Development of a prediction screening model for porcine disease resilience based on a combination of mRNAs and non-coding RNA biomarkers | $126,000 | 2022 |
| Bonnell, Tyler | Arts & Science | MITACS Inc. | RAFT data science project for data analysis and visualization along with database upkeep | $20,000 | 2022 |
| Hopkinson, Chris | Arts & Science | MITACS Inc. | Remote sensing, RPAS, UAV, leaf area index, vegetation productivity, vegetation change, ecosystem regeneration | $60,000 | 2022 |
| Larouche, Richard | Arts & Science | Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Development and validation of the Global Adolescent and Child Physical Activity Questionnaire: A multi-country study across six continents | $100,000 | 2022 |
| Metz, Gerlinde | Arts & Science | MITACS Inc. | Metabolomic Biomarkers of Traumatic Brain Injury | $40,000 | 2022 |
| Naylor, David | Arts & Science | Canadian Space Agency | Investing in the high-tech future: Supporting Alberta’s role in space exploration | $95,000 | 2022 |
| Zovoilis, Athan | Arts & Science | Genome Alberta | A comprehensive sequencing and bioinformatics analysis pipeline for BRD pathogens in Alberta beef cattle | $335,000 | 2022 |
| Alexander, Kristine | Arts & Science | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | "Children of the State": Age, Race, and Settler Colonialism | $25,459 | 2022 |
| Gibb, Robbin | Arts & Science | City of Lethbridge | Family Outdoor Play | $2,000 | 2022 |
| Hopkinson, Chris | Arts & Science | Natural Resources Canada | Lidar biomass modeling over the Peel River corridor, NWT | $11,550 | 2022 |
| Hopkinson, Chris | Arts & Science | Parks Canada | Peace Athabasca Delta ortho photo creation and mapping | $9,500 | 2022 |
| Kellet, Peter | Health Sciences | Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Improving Access to Oral Care for Priority Schoolchildren and Adolescents Using a Social Entrepreneurial Model | $19,996 | 2022 |
| Leca, JB | Arts & Science | Sigma Xi Fund of Canada | Is tool use afforded by object play? Answers from long-tailed macaques | $1,400 | 2022 |
| Mesler, Rhiannon | Business | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Cancel Culture: An examination of individual and situational | $68,536 | 2022 |