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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bogard, Matthew | Arts & Science | Cargill Limited | Research contract to design and conduct Frank Lake monitoring program | Contract | $527,500 | 2021 |
| Burg, Theresa | Arts & Science | Environment Canada | Genomics analysis on Tufted Puffin and Rhinoceros Auklet samples collected on breeding colonies spanning the North Pacific Ocean | STAGE (Strategic Technology Application of Genomics in the Environment) | $43,000 | 2021 |
| Burg, Theresa | Arts & Science | Environment Canada | Genetic structure of declining aerial insectivores | STAGE (Strategic Technology Application of Genomics in the Environment) | $38,000 | 2021 |
| Burg, Theresa | Arts & Science | United States Department of the Interior | Examining Tufted Puffin Population Genetics in the North Pacific | Ecological Services Funds Request for Proposal | $17,374 | 2021 |
| Copeland, Jennifer | Arts & Science | Alberta Health Services | Understanding the role of sedentary behavior in cognitive function among older adults | Seniors Health Summer Studentship | $5,250 | 2021 |
| Hallstrom, Lars | Arts & Science | Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Environment, Community and Health Observatory (ECHO) Network | Team Grant | $25,000 | 2021 |
| Hallstrom, Lars | Arts & Science | Refugee Hub | Working Group 2: Sponsorship and Rural Refugee Brief | Policy Brief | $11,498 | 2021 |
| Iwaniuk, Andrew | Arts & Science | American Ornithological Society | Profiling predator-prey interactions using drones, domestic pigeons, and dynamic telemetry | Student Research Award | $2,500 | 2021 |
| Mills, Josie | Fine Arts | AHRC England | Concepts That Bite Through Time (Mootookakio'ssin NFRF project) | Research grant | $8,570 | 2021 |
| Wiseman, Steve | Arts & Science | Fisheries and Occeans Canada | Assessing 6PPD-Quinone toxicity and mechanisms of Action in freshwater species (AQuA) | Ecosystems and Oceans Science - Contaminants | $73,760 | 2021 |
| Archibald, Valerie | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | STEM Explorers on the GO | PromoScience Supplement for Science Odyssey | $5,000 | 2021 |
| 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 | 2021 |
| Blum, Justin | Fine Arts | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Widening the River: Communicating Performance Research Beyond Scholarly Communities | Connection Grant | $23,633 | 2021 |
| Bogard, Matthew | Arts & Science | Ducks Unlimited Canada | Prairie Ecosystem Services Project: Quantifying the contribution of wetlands in livestock production landscapes | Contract | $37,500 | 2021 |
| Burg, Theresa | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Microstallite Paternity Analyses of Six years of Savannah Sparrow Field Data | Discovery Grant | $10,000 | 2021 |
| Chasmer, Laura | Arts & Science | fRI Research | Quantifying spatio-temporal variability in post-mountain pine beetle outbreak fuels in Jasper National Park using terrestrial laser scanning, and bi-temporal multi-spectral airborne lidar | Federal-Provincial MPB Research Partnership | $126,637 | 2021 |
| Goater, Cam | Arts & Science | Alberta Conservation Association | Ecological Epidemiology of Emerging Ambystoma tigrinum Virus in a Population of Tiger Salamanders in Southwestern Alberta | Research grant | $9,000 | 2021 |
| Jiao, Feng | Business | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Forward Premium Puzzle, International Stock Returns, and Heterogeneous Beliefs | Insight Grant | $9,000 | 2021 |
| Lee-Yaw, Julie | Arts & Science | Alberta Conservation Association | Genomic data to inform long-toed salamander reintroductions | ACA Research Grant | $19,800 | 2021 |
| Leung, Brenda | Health Sciences | Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Empowering Blackfoot youth with diabetes in Alberta to build resilience and change health trajectory by creating cultural food shift and re-establishing food sovereignty | Diabetes Prevention and Treatment in Indigenous Communities | $34,455 | 2021 |
| Zovoilis, Athan | Arts & Science | Canada Research Chairs | Renewal CRC Tier II in RNA Bioinformatics and Genomics | Tier II CRC program | $500,000 | 2021 |
| Gibb, Robbin | Arts & Science | City of Lethbridge | Community Outdoor Play | Community Event Fund | $6,000 | 2021 |
| Gibb, Robbin | Arts & Science | City of Lethbridge | Building Brains Together - A Community Approach | Community Wellbeing and Safety Strategy (CWSS) | $108,355 | 2021 |
| Hallstrom, Lars | Arts & Science | Community Foundation of Lethbridge and Southwestern Alberta | Capacity-based education for Rural Communities | Vale Fund for Rural Life | $15,000 | 2021 |
| Hallstrom, Lars | Arts & Science | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Carrying Capacity Surveillance | Knowledge Synthesis Grant | $46,422 | 2021 |
| Kovalchuk, Olga | Arts & Science | Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Understanding the sex-specificity of cancer-associated cognitive impairment: from molecular mechanisms to behavioural outcomes | Project Grant | $1,120,726 | 2021 |
| Hallstrom, Lars | Arts & Science | Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada | From Anecdotes to Evidence: Research-Based Recommendations for Supporting Rural and Remote Sponsorship | IRCC capacity building | $106,083 | 2021 |
| Hazendonk, Paul | Arts & Science | MITACS Inc. | Alberta Soil Carbon Characterization Project | Accelerate | $45,000 | 2021 |
| Johnson, Dan | Arts & Science | Alberta Conservation Association | An assessment of components of the invertebrate community inhabiting the Silver Sage Conservation Site: Orthoptera (key food for birds) and ground-dwelling arthropods (detritivores, predators, and indicators). | new funding | $8,000 | 2021 |
| McMartin, Dena | Senior Admin | Alberta Innovates | AI Summer Studentship and HYRS Programs | Summer Studentships and HYRS Program | $130,000 | 2021 |
| Stanford, Kim | Arts & Science | Beef Cattle Research Council | Identification of genetic and microbial makers for E. coli O157 super-shedders through longitudinal biopsy and monitoring | Research grant | $20,000 | 2021 |
| Wieden, HJ | Arts & Science | Corteva | deep Yellow Challenges (dY) | deep Yellow Challenges | $55,000 | 2021 |
| Wiseman, Steve | Arts & Science | Huntsman Marine Centre | Assessing risks of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons to marine species of fishes | new funding | $15,000 | 2021 |
| Yevtushenko, Dmytro | Arts & Science | Agriculture Funding Consortium | Molecular diagnostics of potato pests | Fee for service | $60,600 | 2021 |
| Burg, Theresa | Arts & Science | Environment Canada | Genetic structure of declining aerial insectivores | Collaboration with ECCC | $17,500 | 2021 |
| Hallstrom, Lars | Arts & Science | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Neoliberalism and the Populist Project in Rural Canada | Insight Development Grant | $66,002 | 2021 |
| Hoover, Shelley | Arts & Science | Ontario Genomics Institute | BeeCSI: ‘omic tools for assessing bee health | Research grant | $112,800 | 2021 |
| Lee-Yaw, Julie | Arts & Science | Genome Canada | The Canadian Biogenome Project | Large Scale Applied Research Program | $15,000 | 2021 |
| McMartin, Dena | Senior Admin | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Path to Institutional Change | EDI Capacity Building Grant | $400,000 | 2021 |
| Victor, Janice | Health Sciences | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Mapping the landscape of Indigenous child welfare research | Insight Development Grant | $70,504 | 2021 |
| Wiseman, Steve | Arts & Science | Enbridge | Impact of chytrid (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis) on Western Toads in the BC Peace Region | Enbridge Community Investment | $4,720 | 2021 |
| Barrett, Louise | Arts & Science | ISHE | Variable Action and Motor Learning Among Preschool-aged Children | Aldis Award | $10,106 | 2020 |
| Brassolotto, Julia | Health Sciences | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Medical Assistance in Dying: Ethical and Policy issues in Southern Rural Alberta | Insight Development Grant | $57,322 | 2020 |
| Byrne, James | Arts & Science | Alberta Real Estate Foundation | Defining challenges and opportunities for South Sask. watershed communities under a rapidly changing climate: Regional Analyses and Case Studies | Community Investment Application | $50,000 | 2020 |
| Caspar, Sienna | Health Sciences | College of Licensed Pratical Nurses of Alberta | Evaluating the Feasible and Sustainable Culture Change ModelÑa novel, web-based intervention designed to increase the provision of person-centred care practice in residential care homes. | $25,000 | 2020 | |
| Chasmer, Laura | Arts & Science | Mitacs | Advancing Climate-mediated Wetland Assessment and Change Detection using Earth Observation Data Fusion and Advanced Analytics | Accelerate | $60,000 | 2020 |
| Christensen, Darren | Health Sciences | Alberta Health Services | Low dose buprenorphine to mitigate the barrier of withdrawal in transitioning a patient from opioid dependence to opioid maintenance therapy in an outpatient setting | Subaward from UofC | $10,000 | 2020 |
| Demeler, Borries | Arts & Science | Applied Pharmaceutical Innovation | Caktech Travel Award | Applied Pharmaceutical Innovation | $3,348 | 2020 |
| Demeler, Borries | Arts & Science | Alberta Innovates | No title | CASBE | $25,000 | 2020 |
| Demeler, Borries | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Use of Analytical Ultracentrifugation to Uncover Unique Characterization of Canola Feed Ingredients | Engage Grant | $25,000 | 2020 |