Funding & statisitcs
uLethbridge attracts over $15 million annually in research funding from governmental agencies, industry, foundations and associations, and numerous international partners.
Overview of 2019/20 research funding
$15.79M
Total funding

$5.64M
The value of Tri-Agency funding

40+
Number of Sponsoring Agencies

All funding received
Faculty member | Faculty/School | Agency | Project name | Funds awarded | Year |
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Luczak, Artur | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Packets of neuronal activity and behavioural syllables. | $275,000 | 2019 |
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 | $50,000 | 2020 |
Henzi, Peter | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Environmental Structuring Of Individual Action In A Social Mammal | $165,000 | 2017 |
Wieden, HJ | Arts & Science | RNA Society | RNA Salon 2018-2019 | $1,500 | 2018 |
McNaughton, Bruce | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Hippocampal cortical interactions and the extraction of knowledge from episodic memory | $450,000 | 2016 |
Burg, Theresa | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Evolution of High Latitude Species | $140,000 | 2018 |
Fazly, Mostafa | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | New developments for partial differential equations; from theory to applications | $55,535 | 2016 |
Gibb, Robbin | Arts & Science | Alberta Innovates Health Solutions | Research Allowance- AIHS Anna Kovalchuk | $2,000 | 2016 |
Gruber, Aaron | Arts & Science | Branch Out Neurological Foundation | The effect of Ibogaine as a natural treatment for drug addition | $10,000 | 2017 |
Hayes, Paul | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Developing New Reactions and Catalysis via Designer Ligands for Organometallic Chemistry | $145,000 | 2019 |
Luczak, Artur | Arts & Science | Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Are epileptic seizures linked to memory-like neural pattern sequences? | $531,676 | 2019 |
Gruber, Aaron | Arts & Science | Alberta Innovates | Novel therapeutic potential of non-psychotropic cannabinoids in pain, inflammation, and depression | $297,000 | 2020 |
Sutherland, Robert | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Hippocampus and memory: A systems level approach | $325,000 | 2017 |
Laird, Rob | Arts & Science | Alberta Conservation Association | Biodiversity and distribution of cryptic duckweed species in Alberta | $25,000 | 2018 |
Li, Fangfang | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | The development of child speech articulation: Longitudinal and cross-language perspectives | $20,000 | 2016 |
Vasey, Paul | Arts & Science | National Institute of Health | A meta-analysis of male sexual orientation genetics | $20,000 | 2017 |
Das, Saurya | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Phenomenological and Theoretical Aspects of Quantum Gravity | $120,000 | 2018 |
Wiseman, Steve | Arts & Science | Canada Foundation for Innovation | Establishment of a Mechanistic Toxicology Facility | $121,557 | 2016 |
Metz, Gerlinde | Arts & Science | NIH | Using 'omics to build an atlas of placental development and function across | $43,826 | 2018 |
Newberry, Janice | Arts & Science | Alberta Centre for Child, Family and Community Research | Raising Spirit: The Opokaa'sin Digital Storytelling Project | $40,000 | 2016 |
Demeler, Borries | Arts & Science | Canada Foundation for Innovation | Canadian Centre for Hydrodynamics | $74,813 | 2019 |
Luczak, Artur | Arts & Science | Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Are epileptic seizures linked to memory-like neural pattern sequences? | $100,000 | 2019 |
Gibb, Robbin | Arts & Science | Branch Out Neurological Foundation | Cannabis and the Brain: Assessing the Differential Effects of Cannabis Strains on Neuroinflammation, Behaviour and Neuroanatomy in Rodent Models | $2,000 | 2020 |
Anvik, John | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Understanding and Supporting Information Needs of Software Development Tasks | $115,000 | 2017 |
Burg, Theresa | Arts & Science | Alberta Conservation Association | Assessing translocation success and implications of greater sage grouse in Alberta using genetic assignment methods | $35,000 | 2018 |
Wieden, Hans-Joachim | Arts & Science | MindFuel | UofL iGEM Collegiate Team 2017 | $26,000 | 2017 |
Kharaghani, Hadi | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Special orthogonal matrices, existence, enumeration, and applications | $105,000 | 2018 |
Goater,Cameron | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Altered behaviour in trematode-infected zombie ants: field and experimental tests of the manipulation hypothesis | $24,000 | 2016 |
Bubel, Shawn | Arts & Science | Institute of Field Research | Fort Vermilion Archaeological Excavation Project | $14,000 | 2018 |
Gibb, Robbin | Arts & Science | Private donation | THC: Project Gibb | $9,500 | 2016 |
Gibb, Robbin | Arts & Science | Palix Foundation | Beta test resilience scale | $2,500 | 2019 |
Vasey, Paul | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | The Evolution and Biopsychology of Non-Conceptive Sexuality | $267,360 | 2019 |
Mueller, Richard | Arts & Science | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Immigrant Wages in the Private and Public Sectors: How do these Compare to the Wages of the Canadian-born? | $10,000 | 2019 |
Hogue, Michelle | Arts & Science | Alberta Environment & Parks | Traditional Ecological Knowledge Program | $1,000,000 | 2020 |
Sutherland, Robert | Arts & Science | Alzheimer Society of Alberta and Northwest Territories | Catalyzing fundamental dementia research at Lethbridge | $500,000 | 2017 |
Hopkinson, Christopher | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Landcover response to changing energy and moisture regimes within boreal and montane ecosystem transition zones_ a multiscale approach | $230,500 | 2016 |
Kolb, Bryan | Arts & Science | Brain Canada | Early years intervention on a First Nations Reserve | $3,461,100 | 2017 |
Kovalchuk, Olga | Arts & Science | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre | POETIC Epigenetics Developmental Laboratory | $1,000,000 | 2016 |
Boulton, Tiffany | Arts & Science | Parkland Institute | Midwifery in Alberta: An Exploratory Study of Current Healthcare Policies and Practices | $5,000 | 2018 |
Metz, Gerlinde | Arts & Science | Branch Out Neurological Foundation | The Effects of Prenatal Stress on Immune Activation and the Severity of Multiple Sclerosis in an Animal Model | $1,000 | 2016 |
Cheng, Howard | Arts & Science | Alberta Innovates | Participation at the 2019 Rocky Mountain Regional Programming Contest | $3,180 | 2019 |
Fiori, Andrew | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Geometric Methods in the Local Langlands Correspondance for p-adic Groups | $127,500 | 2019 |
Hopkinson, Chris | Arts & Science | Parks Canada | Waterton Kenow Fire recovery | $56,522 | 2019 |
Mohajerani, Majid | Arts & Science | Weston Brain Institute | $121,200 | 2020 | |
Bomhof, Marc | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Chronic and prolonged, time-course impact of exercise on homeostatic appetite control | $120,000 | 2017 |
Hopkinson, Chris | Arts & Science | Western Economic Diversification | MS Lidar for resource monitoring, reclamation, risk assessment and disaster recovery | $1,194,000 | 2018 |
Hopkinson, Christopher | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Landcover response to changing energy and moisture regimes within boreal and montane ecosystem transition zones_ a multiscale approach | $120,000 | 2016 |
Hanrahan, Maura | Arts & Science | Parkland Institute | Assessing Water Security in an Albertan Metis Settlement: A Pilot Project to Build Knowledge for Appropriate Water Policy Development | $4,894 | 2017 |
Euston, David | Arts & Science | Alberta Gambling Research Institute | AGRI Scholarship | $3,000 | 2018 |
Metz, Gerlinde | Arts & Science | Branch Out Neurological Foundation | Understanding the Impact of Early Experience on MS Risk | $1,000 | 2016 |