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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| McCune, Jenny | Arts & Science | Parks Canada | Plant Community Response to the Kenow Wildfire and rare plant distribution modelling in Waterton Lakes National Park | $60,000 | 2019 |
| McDonald, Robert | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Multiple memory networks: plasticity mechanisms, representations, and behaviour | $325,000 | 2019 |
| McIntyre, Don | Business | University of Waterloo | Practicing Reconciliation Through Teaching and Research on Haida Gwaii: A Collaborative Research Project | $20,000 | 2020 |
| McNaughton, Bruce | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Hippocampal cortical interactions and the extraction of knowledge from episodic memory | $450,000 | 2016 |
| McNaughton, Bruce | Canadian Institutes of Health Research | The neural basis of cognitive reserve, the brain's principal defense against Alzheimer's dementia and normal age-related cognitive decline | $1,235,475 | 2017 | |
| McNaughton, Bruce | Arts & Science | European Commission | Investigation of local and global cortical circuits with advanced neural probes for high-resolution | $0 | 2016 |
| Mesler, Rhiannon | Business | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | "I Don't Want to Be Like ___!" Examining How Identities Can Divide and Unite in an Increasingly Polarized World | $64,497 | 2019 |
| Mesler, Rhiannon | Business | Western University | Mesler Food Waste Project | $7,330 | 2019 |
| Metz, Gerlinde | Arts & Science | NIH | Using 'omics to build an atlas of placental development and function across | $43,826 | 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 |
| Metz, Gerlinde | Arts & Science | Branch Out Neurological Foundation | Understanding the Impact of Early Experience on MS Risk | $1,000 | 2016 |
| Metz, Gerlinde | Arts & Science | Canada Foundation for Innovation | State-of-the-Art Vivarium of the New Science and Academic Building | $26,460 | 2020 |
| Metz, Gerlinde | Arts & Science | Alberta Innovates Health Solutions | Prediction and Understanding of Resilience in Albertan Families: Longitudinal Study of Disaster Responses (PURLS) | $119,078 | 2016 |
| Metz, Gerlinde | Arts & Science | Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes of Prenatal Stress | $1,150,575 | 2016 |
| Metz, Gerlinde | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Critical Periods of Experience-dependent Brain Plasticity | $510,000 | 2018 |
| Metz, Gerlinde | Arts & Science | March of Dimes Foundation | Novel receptor antagonists | $11,000 | 2018 |
| Metz, Gerlinde | Arts & Science | Canada Foundation for Innovation | State-of-the-Art Vivarium of the New Science and Academic Building | $88,199 | 2019 |
| Metz, Gerlinde | Arts & Science | Alberta Economic Development and Trade | State-of-the-Art Vivarium of the New Science and Academic Building | $88,199 | 2019 |
| Mills, Josephine | Fine Arts | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | You Are Here: an interdisciplinary workshop and knowledge mobilization program | $48,000 | 2016 |
| Mohajerani, Majid | Arts & Science | Weston Brain Institute | $121,200 | 2020 | |
| 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 | Alberta Innovates Health Solutions | The effects of circadian disruption cognition in aging | $45,000 | 2016 |
| Mohajerani, Majid | Alzheimer Society of Canada | Toward dissecting the etiology of Alzheimer's disease: Is altered neuronal activity a pathology or compensation? | $199,950 | 2016 | |
| Mohajerani, Majid | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Ventilated surgical, dissection & recovery systems for rodent research | $150,000 | 2017 |
| 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 | Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Probing the link between amyloid deposition, cortico-hippocampal network dysfunction and cognitive impairment in a second generation of transgenic mouse model of Alzheimer's disease | $688,500 | 2017 | |
| 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 | Probing the impact of noradrenergic circuits and their role in resetting excitation/inhibition balance in Alzheimer's disease | $199,950 | 2017 |
| 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 |
| Morris, Joy | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Symmetries of Cayley Graphs | $80,000 | 2016 |
| Mosimann, Steven | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Structure and Function of PTP-like myo-inositol phosphatases | $180,000 | 2017 |
| 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 |
| Mueller, Richard | Arts & Science | Canada Foundation for Innovation | CRDCN: Evolving to Meet New Research Data Needs and Policy Priorities | $11,952 | 2016 |
| 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 |
| Mueller, Richard | Arts & Science | Canada Foundation for Innovation | The CRDCN Transition to High Performance Computing: Liberating Data for Research and Policy | $11,952 | 2016 |
| Naylor, David | Canadian Space Agency | Investing in the high-tech future: Supporting Alberta's role in space exploration | $267,534 | 2019 | |
| Naylor, David | Arts & Science | Canada Foundation for Innovation | Cryogenic test facility for the development of new instrument concepts for future space astronomy missions | $250,000 | 2019 |
| Newberry, Janice | Arts & Science | Alberta Centre for Child, Family and Community Research | Raising Spirit: The Opokaa'sin Digital Storytelling Project | $40,000 | 2016 |
| Newberry, Janice | Arts & Science | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Photo-elicitation and Local Values in Childrearing in Blackfoot Territory | $14,900 | 2016 |
| Ng, Nathan | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Moments of L-functions, correlations sums, and primes | $135,000 | 2019 |
| Nicol, Lorraine | Arts & Science | Alberta Real Estate Foundation | WPACs and Municipalities - Joint Initiatives and their Effect on Municipal Planning for Sustainable Communities in Alberta | $30,000 | 2020 |
| 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 | Arts & Science | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Future Commons: Transforming Scholarly Communication through Collective Action | $200,000 | 2016 |
| O'Donnell, Dan | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Digital Studies./Le champ numérique | $90,000 | 2018 | |
| O'Donnell, Dan | Arts & Science | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Canada-LATAM Workshop on Open and Inclusive access to research (Taller Canada-LATAM sobre acceso abierto y equitativo a la investigaci—n cient’fica), Santiago de Chile, November 2020 | $25,000 | 2020 |
| Okine, Erasmus | Senior Admin | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | SSHRC Institutional Grant | $95,556 | 2019 |
| Okine, Erasmus | Arts & Science | Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada | Assessment of the Potential of Biochar to the Beef Cattle Diets to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Agriculture | $1,167,500 | 2017 |
| Okine, Erasmus | Arts & Science | Canadian Glycomics Network | Glyco-caged drug delivery to treat enteric inflammatory diseases in humans and livestock | $51,000 | 2017 |
| Okine, Erasmus | OVPR | Alberta Economic Development & Trade | GreenSTEM | $536,500 | 2018 |