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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kovalchuk, Igor | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Mechanism of control of pathogen infection in Cannabis sativa using copper ions | $24,990 | 2018 |
| Kovalchuk, Olga | Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Friend or foe: cannabis and the brain - from safety analysis to medical applications | $100,000 | 2018 | |
| Kovalchuk, Olga | Arts & Science | MITACS Inc. | Phenotyping and genotyping a collection of Cannabis Sativa lines | $90,000 | 2018 |
| Laird, Rob | Arts & Science | Alberta Conservation Association | Biodiversity and distribution of cryptic duckweed species in Alberta | $25,000 | 2018 |
| Le Roy, Dan | Arts & Science | Western Grains Research Foundation | Economic value of diversified cropping systems | $274,045 | 2018 |
| LeBlanc, Robert | Education | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Crossing Southern Alberta: Stylized Speech Amongst Immigrant Teens in a Rural Meatpacking Town | $47,248 | 2018 |
| Leca, JB | Arts & Science | Alberta Gambling Research Institute | Development of an Ecologically Valid Non-Human Primate Model of Gambling | $30,000 | 2018 |
| Leween, Jackson | Fine Arts | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Indigenous Arts and Transdisciplinary Praxis | $73,496 | 2018 |
| Lupton, Nathan | Business | MITACS Inc. | Learning Process and Moving-Up-the-Value-Ladder from Offshore Outsourcing in Ready-Made-Garments (RMG) Firm | $6,000 | 2018 |
| MacCormack, Jeffrey | Education | Alberta Education | Pre-service teachers' practicum stress, beliefs about teaching and inclusive practices, and executive functions | $34,327 | 2018 |
| MacDonald, Adrianne | Business | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Navigating Paradoxical Tensions with Sense-making Tools: A Study of Lego Serious Play for Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships | $44,391 | 2018 |
| McCormick, Peter | Arts & Science | Courts Administration Service | Federal Court 50th | $44,830 | 2018 |
| Metz, Gerlinde | Arts & Science | March of Dimes Foundation | Novel receptor antagonists | $11,000 | 2018 |
| Metz, Gerlinde | Arts & Science | NIH | Using 'omics to build an atlas of placental development and function across | $43,826 | 2018 |
| Metz, Gerlinde | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Critical Periods of Experience-dependent Brain Plasticity | $510,000 | 2018 |
| Mohajerani, Majid | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Gain control by vesicular zinc in cortical circuits of vision | $90,000 | 2018 |
| Mohajerani, Majid | Arts & Science | Alzheimer Society of Alberta and NWT | Biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease: Investigation of their onset, origin, and longitudinal effects on neuronal connectivity, and animal behaviour | $149,000 | 2018 |
| Mohajerani, Majid | Arts & Science | Alzheimer Society of Alberta and NWT | Determining relation between traffic noise stress, amyloid deposition, brain connectivity and cognitive impairment | $150,000 | 2018 |
| Mohajerani, Majid | Arts & Science | Alberta Prion Research Institute | Development of Smart Home Cage System for High Throughput Longitudinal Monitoring and Analysis of Animal Health, Behavior and Brain Activity | $120,000 | 2018 |
| Mombourquette, Carmen | Education | University of Calgary | TGSE Mombourquette C | $6,000 | 2018 |
| Mueller, Richard | Arts & Science | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Literacy and numeracy skills and the education and labour market outcomes of refugees and their children | $12,000 | 2018 |
| Nicol, Lorraine | University Library | Alberta Real Estate Foundation | Advancements in Irrigation Agriculture with Implications for Economic and Community Development and Environmental Stewardship in Southern Alberta | $25,000 | 2018 |
| O'Donnell, Dan | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Digital Studies./Le champ numérique | $90,000 | 2018 | |
| Okine, Erasmus | OVPR | Alberta Economic Development & Trade | GreenSTEM | $536,500 | 2018 |
| Oosterbroek, Tracy | Health Sciences | Canadian Institutes of Health Research | CIHR Institute of Population and Public Health: Starting Investigator Workshop | $1,500 | 2018 |
| Patel, Trushar | Arts & Science | Alberta Innovates | Towards Targeting Persistent Hepatitis B Virus Infection | $639,498 | 2018 |
| Patel, Trushar | Arts & Science | Alberta Innovates | Ribowest 2018 Conference Fund | $5,000 | 2018 |
| Pijl, EM | Health Sciences | City of Lethbridge | Urban Social issues Study | $10,000 | 2018 |
| Pras, Amandine | Fine Arts | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Sound Engineers' and Producers' Experiences of Micro-Aggressions in the Recording Studio | $24,956 | 2018 |
| Pras, Amandine | Fine Arts | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Digital studio socialities and music production practices - Ethnographies of Bamako's street studios and the Banff Centre's Audio Practicum | $74,000 | 2018 |
| Rochdi, Nadia | Arts & Science | VERTEX Resource Group Ltd. | Temporal Trends of Normalized Difference Vegetation Index in Reclaimed Wellsites and Control areas | $10,532 | 2018 |
| Rood, Stewart | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Diversity and Adaptation of Riparian Cottonwoods and Hybrid Poplars: Exploration and Syntheses | $33,000 | 2018 |
| Rood, Stewart | Arts & Science | Alberta Innovates | Sustaining Healthy River Valleys: Health Assessment Tools for the South Saskatchewan River Basin and other Dryland Rivers of Western North America | $270,000 | 2018 |
| Runte, Mary | Business | Cardiac Arrhythmia Network of Canada | Mapping the Patient Journey | $240,000 | 2018 |
| Russell, Tony | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Non-coding RNAs and ribonucleoprotein complexes in unicellular eukaryotes | $160,000 | 2018 |
| Shin, Duckjung | Business | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Human Resource Management as a Social System within an Organization | $31,536 | 2018 |
| Smith, Elwin | Arts & Science | Western Grains Research Foundation | Economic value of diversified cropping systems | $76,500 | 2018 |
| Smither, Devon | Fine Arts | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | "'All Who Care Enough to Want to See and Understand': The Whitney Women and American Modern Art, 1905-1930" | $37,892 | 2018 |
| Stewart, D.Andrew | Fine Arts | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | 2018 IAST - Interactive Art, Science, and Technology in Western Canada | $47,294 | 2018 |
| Sutherland, Rob | Arts & Science | Sunnybrook Research Institute | SARTAN-AD Trial: RCT | $9,500 | 2018 |
| Sutherland, Rob | Arts & Science | Canadian Institutes of Health Research | The functional consequences of protein misfolding spreading through the brain | $20,000 | 2018 |
| Tajbakhsh, Alireza | Business | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Agricultural Supply Chain Management: Perspectives of Sustainability-Conscious Policy-Makers in Canada | $61,962 | 2018 |
| Tata, Mattew | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Brain Electrical Dynamics for Top-Down Auditory Attention | $165,000 | 2018 |
| Tata, Matthew | Arts & Science | MITACS Inc. | Brain-Inspired Artificial Intelligence for Sound Aware Robotics | $6,000 | 2018 |
| Thakor, Nehal | Arts & Science | Alberta Innovates | CAIP Research Showcase | $10,000 | 2018 |
| Vilk, Greg | OVPR | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Advanced Digital Technologies Conference | $2,295 | 2018 |
| Wetmore, Stacey | Arts & Science | Zayed University | Interactions of Heavy Metals | $15,000 | 2018 |
| Wieden, HJ | Arts & Science | Alberta Economic Development & Trade | Antimicrobial Resistance - One Health Consortium | 2018 | |
| Wieden, HJ | Arts & Science | MindFuel | HS iGEM 2018 | $16,000 | 2018 |
| Wieden, HJ | Arts & Science | MindFuel | Collegiate iGEM Team 2018 | $7,500 | 2018 |