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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kellet, Peter | Health Sciences | Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Improving Access to Oral Care for Priority Schoolchildren and Adolescents Using a Social Entrepreneurial Model | Planning and Dissemination Grants | $19,996 | 2022 |
| Leca, JB | Arts & Science | Sigma Xi Fund of Canada | Is tool use afforded by object play? Answers from long-tailed macaques | Sigma Xi Fund of Canada | $1,400 | 2022 |
| Mesler, Rhiannon | Business | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Cancel Culture: An examination of individual and situational | Insight Development Grant | $68,536 | 2022 |
| Patel, Trushar | Arts & Science | Northern RNA Inc. | Towards developing vaccines for emerging viral pandemics | Partnership Program | $390,000 | 2022 |
| Rathwell, Scott | Arts & Science | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Getting Back on Track: A Mixed Methods Study of Successful Reengagement in Physical Activity | Insight Development Grant | $68,580 | 2022 |
| Stanford, Kim | Arts & Science | Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada | Silage inoculants for ensiling food processing byproducts and retail food waste for use as livestock feed | Canadian Food Waste Challenge | $100,000 | 2022 |
| Sutherland, Robert | Arts & Science | GBS Global Biopharma Inc. | Calculating a dose-response curve for three proprietary mixtures | Research contract | $28,646 | 2022 |
| Boco, Adebiyi | Arts & Science | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Economic implications of the asocial society: a scoping review of loneliness among young adults across the life course | Knowledge Synthesis Grant | $28,860 | 2021 |
| Burg, Theresa | Arts & Science | Alberta Environment and Parks | Sage grouse genomics | Research contract | $15,000 | 2021 |
| Caspar, Sienna | Health Sciences | Brenda Stafford Foundation | Phase 1 of Centre of Excellence Project | Grant | $25,000 | 2021 |
| Chasmer, Laura | Arts & Science | fRI Research | Understanding fire behaviour in mountain pine beetle disturbed vs. managed fuel complexes using novel data sources | Federal-Provincial MPB Research Partnership | $68,963 | 2021 |
| Gibb, Robbin | Arts & Science | Anonymous Donor | Chess for Life as a tool to enhance cognitive function in justice-involved youth | Grant | $70,290 | 2021 |
| Hopkinson, Chris | Arts & Science | Alberta Innovates | Cumulative effects of climate, landcover & snowpack trends on Alberta’s Eastern Slopes water resources | Clean Technology | $583,000 | 2021 |
| Konschuh, Michele | Arts & Science | Galaxy Ag Ventures | Evaluation of rice germplasm suitable for southern Alberta | Private funding | $3,100 | 2021 |
| Stevens, Kat | Arts & Science | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | A Role-Ethics of Argumentation | Insight Development Grant | $18,700 | 2021 |
| Yevtushenko, Dmytro | Arts & Science | Syngenta Canada Inc. | Profiling oxathiapiprolin and fluazinam for management of powdery scab in potato | Contract | $40,000 | 2021 |
| Burg, Theresa | Arts & Science | Environment Canada | Population genetic structure of seabirds breeding in the Scott Islands marine National Wildlife Area | Contract | $39,999 | 2021 |
| Kovalchuk, Igor | Arts & Science | Canadian Agriculture Partnership | Application of antimicrobial peptides to increase cereal crops resistance to fungal pathogens | Ag Action Manitoba Program Research and Innovation Activity | $168,000 | 2021 |
| Chali, Yllias | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Text Summarization and Question Generation Models | Discovery Grant | $120,000 | 2021 |
| Currie, Cheryl | Health Sciences | City of Lethbridge | Supporting a Culture of Addiction Recovery in Lethbridge: A Lived Experience Project | Community Social Development Funding Program | $80,000 | 2021 |
| Gerken, Michael | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Donor-Stabilized Main-Group and Transition-Metal Fluorido Cations and the Development of Tungsten-Based Weakly Coordinating Anions | Discovery Grant | $310,000 | 2021 |
| Hamel, JD | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Catalysis to Effectively Make and Break Organofluorine Compounds | Discovery Grant | $137,500 | 2021 |
| Kovalchuk, Igor | Arts & Science | MITACS Inc. | Anti-inflammatory effect of psilocybin and psychedelic mushrooms | Accelerate | $180,000 | 2021 |
| LeBlanc, Robert | Education | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Below the Digital Surface: Platforms, Disinformation, and Critical Digital Literacies | PCH-SSHRC Initiative for Digital Citizen Research | $24,188 | 2021 |
| McKenzie-Jones, Paul | Arts & Science | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Indigenous, Radically! | Connection Grant | $16,120 | 2021 |
| McMartin, Dena | Arts & Science | Environment Canada | Wetlands Processes Associated with Athabasca Oilsands Water | Contract | $20,000 | 2021 |
| Metz, Gerlinde | Arts & Science | Alzheimer Society of Canada | Novel Metabolomic Biomarkers for AD | Funding | $100,000 | 2021 |
| Naylor, David | Arts & Science | Canadian Space Agency | Cryogenic post-dispersed polarizing Fourier transform spectrometer | FAST | $100,000 | 2021 |
| Patel, Trushar | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Understanding Communications Between Viral RNAs and Human Proteins | Discovery Grant | $200,000 | 2021 |
| Patel, Trushar | Arts & Science | University Hospital Foundation-Northern RNA | Enhancing Alberta’s Biomanufacturing Capacity For Development and Production of Innovative Genetic Based Therapeutics and Vaccines | Partnership | $4,750,000 | 2021 |
| Patel, Trushar | Arts & Science | MITACS Inc. | Advancement of biosensor technologies for use in healthcare/cancer research and detection | Accelerate Entrepreneur | $150,000 | 2021 |
| Roussel, Marc | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Critical Renewal of an Obsolete Computational Suite at the University of Lethbridge | Research Tools & Instruments | $90,050 | 2021 |
| Walton, Mark | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Phase Space Quantum Mechanics and the Quantum-Classical Relation | Discovery Grant | $120,000 | 2021 |
| Mohajerani, Majid | Arts & Science | Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Probing the memory reply dynamics in the Default Mode Network | Postdoctoral Fellowship | $150,000 | 2021 |
| O'Donnell, Dan | Arts & Science | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Digital studies/Le champs numériques | Aid to Scholarly Journals | $29,900 | 2021 |
| Sanden, Paul | Fine Arts | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Aid to Scholarly Journals Grant for Intersections: Canadian Journal of Music | Aid to Scholarly Journals | $96,150 | 2021 |
| Stanley, Heather | Arts & Science | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Maternal Darkness: Postpartum Depression and Maternal Mental Illness in Western Canada | Insight grant | $91,319 | 2021 |
| Williams, Carol | Arts & Science | MITACS Inc. | Identifying Vulnerabilities in Sexual Assault Policies among Marginal and Racialized Communities in Southern Alberta | Accelerate | $10,000 | 2021 |
| Zovoilis, Athan | Arts & Science | Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Dissecting the role of SINE non-coding RNAs in Alzheimer’s disease (AD): An integrative RNA genomics approach in AD mouse models | Project Grant | $918,000 | 2021 |
| Christensen, Darren | Health Sciences | University of Swansea | Contingency Management projects | Subaward | $1,000 | 2021 |
| 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 | 2021 |
| Litchke, Lyn | Health Sciences | Alberta Therapeutic Recreation Association | Measuring Health-Quality of Life and Well-Being for Individuals of All Abilities Through Participation in Adapted Recreation | Operating grant | $2,500 | 2021 |
| McMartin, Dena | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Resilience-Oriented Watershed Engineering | Discovery Grant | $180,000 | 2021 |
| Christensen, Darren | Health Sciences | Alberta Gambling Research Institute | The prevalence of Traumatic Head Injury in the clinical population of problem gamblers in Alberta and at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. | Major Grant | $10,000 | 2021 |
| Hamel, JD | Arts & Science | Canada Research Chairs | Research stipend | Tier II CRC program | $100,000 | 2021 |
| Hoover, Shelley | Arts & Science | Agriculture Funding Consortium | Assessing Molecular, Individual, and Colony Markers of Local and Imported Stocks to Improve Honey Bee Health in Alberta | 2021 call | 2021 | |
| Lee, Bonnie | Health Sciences | Alberta Gambling Research Institute | Determining the Relationship of Communication in Emotion Regulation, And Severity of Problem Gambling and Comorbidities | Major Grant | $95,231 | 2021 |
| Leonard, Carrie | Health Sciences | Alberta Gambling Research Institute | Gambling in Canada: A Return to Normal or the Establishment of a New Normal? | Major Grant | $70,700 | 2021 |
| McMartin, Dena | Senior Admin | MITACS Inc. | Rapid metagenomic characterization of surface microbiota in Emergency Medical Services Vehicles | Entrepreneur-Accelerate | $90,000 | 2021 |
| McMartin, Dena | Senior Admin | MITACS Inc. | Further development of protein-based biosensors and assessment of their commercialization potential within the Canadian aquaculture industry | Accelerate | $15,000 | 2021 |