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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Kharaghani, Hadi | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Special orthogonal matrices, existence, enumeration, and applications | $105,000 | 2018 |
Genee, Inge | Arts & Science | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | 21st century tools for Indigenous languages | 2018 | |
Wiltshire, Jocelyn | Business | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | When Leaders Turn to the Dark Side: Correlates and Consequences of Dark Political Skill in the Workplace | $54,712 | 2018 |
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, HJ | Arts & Science | Alberta Innovates | The Alberta SynBioMoD Hub | $247,500 | 2018 |
Boulton, Tiffany | Arts & Science | Parkland Institute | Midwifery in Alberta: An Exploratory Study of Current Healthcare Policies and Practices | $5,000 | 2018 |
Kovalchuk, Igor | Arts & Science | MITACS Inc. | Phenotyping and genotyping collection of Cannabis sativa lines | $405,000 | 2018 |
Williams, Robert | Health Sciences | Gambling Research Exchange Ontario | Leisure, Lifestyle & Lifecycle Project - Database Management | $30,000 | 2018 |
Hughes, Bryn | Fine Arts | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | The Effect of Style of Musical Syntax | $27,323 | 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 |
Metz, Gerlinde | Arts & Science | March of Dimes Foundation | Novel receptor antagonists | $11,000 | 2018 |
Euston, David | Arts & Science | Alberta Gambling Research Institute | AGRI Scholarship | $3,000 | 2018 |
Das, Saurya | Arts & Science | MITACS Inc. | Black Hole Bose-Einstein Condensate and its Implications | $6,000 | 2018 |
Kovalchuk, Olga | Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Friend or foe: cannabis and the brain - from safety analysis to medical applications | $100,000 | 2018 | |
Yevtushenko, Dmytro | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Host defense peptides and mechanisms of broad-spectrum disease resistance in plants | $127,500 | 2018 |
Leween, Jackson | Fine Arts | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Indigenous Arts and Transdisciplinary Praxis | $73,496 | 2018 |
Hopkinson, Chris | Arts & Science | Western Economic Diversification | MS Lidar for resource monitoring, reclamation, risk assessment and disaster recovery | $1,194,000 | 2018 |
Goater, Cam | Arts & Science | Alberta Conservation Association | Ecological epidemiology of emerging Ambystoma tigrinum virus (ATV) in a population of tiger salamanders in southwestern Alberta | $6,338 | 2018 |
Chasmer, Laura | Arts & Science | Alberta Environment & Parks | Remote Sensing Wetland Ecosystem Change Detection Method Development | $198,970 | 2018 |
Christensen, Darren | Health Sciences | Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Evaluations of Interventions to Address the Opioid Crisis | $100,000 | 2018 |
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 |
Hayes, Paul | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Chemical Conversion of Cannabinoids in Cannabis Sativa | $25,000 | 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 |
Gibb, Robbin | Arts & Science | City of Lethbridge | Building Brains and Futures: One connection at a time -Phase II | $150,000 | 2018 |
Goater, Cam | Arts & Science | Alberta Conservation Association | Effects of host community structure on parasite transmission and disease risk | $7,320 | 2018 |
Leca, JB | Arts & Science | Alberta Gambling Research Institute | Development of an Ecologically Valid Non-Human Primate Model of Gambling | $30,000 | 2018 |
Hinger, Dave | VPA Office | Alberta Innovates | Applied Innovation: Connecting Passions with Purpose | $14,907 | 2018 |
Mohajerani, Majid | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Gain control by vesicular zinc in cortical circuits of vision | $90,000 | 2018 |
Hogue, Michelle | Arts & Science | Alberta Energy | Co-design an environmental monitoring program for Piikani Nation | 2018 | |
Granzow, Kara | Arts & Science | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Settler Colonial Place-Making in Alberta: Sexualized Violence, Extractivist Economies, and Cowboy Culture | $57,230 | 2018 |
Mombourquette, Carmen | Education | University of Calgary | TGSE Mombourquette C | $6,000 | 2018 |
Bonnaventure, Philip | Arts & Science | POLAR Knowledge Canada | Northern Scientific Training Program | $6,000 | 2018 |
Bonifacio, Glenda | Arts & Science | Alberta Commission on Human Rights | R.E.D. (Rights, Equity, Diversity) Project in Postsecondary Campus in Lethbridge | $17,620 | 2018 |
Kovalchuk, Olga | Arts & Science | MITACS Inc. | Phenotyping and genotyping a collection of Cannabis Sativa lines | $90,000 | 2018 |
Bogard, Matthew | Arts & Science | Canada Foundation for Innovation | Multiple stressor impacts on the functioning of aquatic networks | $100,000 | 2018 |
Wieden, HJ | Arts & Science | Alberta Economic Development & Trade | Antimicrobial Resistance - One Health Consortium | 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 |
Okine, Erasmus | OVPR | Alberta Economic Development & Trade | GreenSTEM | $536,500 | 2018 |
Runte, Mary | Business | Cardiac Arrhythmia Network of Canada | Mapping the Patient Journey | $240,000 | 2018 |
Henzi, Peter | Arts & Science | Leakey Foundation | Baldwin Fellowship awarded to Rosemary Blersch | $12,070 | 2018 |
Adams, Carly | Arts & Science | Nikkei Cultural Society of Lethbridge and Area | Nisei: Memories of Striving and Legacies of Resilience | $5,500 | 2018 |
Bogard, Matthew | Arts & Science | Alberta Economic Development & Trade | Multiple stressor impacts on the functioning of aquatic networks | $100,000 | 2018 |
Zovoilis, Athan | Arts & Science | Alberta Economic Development & Trade | Investigation of AMR spread via MGEs and developing machine learning biotools for quantitative AMR level prediction | 2018 | |
Sutherland, Rob | Arts & Science | Sunnybrook Research Institute | SARTAN-AD Trial: RCT | $9,500 | 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 |
Bonifacio, Glenda | Arts & Science | Alberta Human Rights Commission | Race and Space on Campus: Equity and inclusion in Lethbridge | $17,620 | 2018 |
Cheng, Howard | Arts & Science | Alberta Innovates | Participation at the ACM International Collegiate Regional Programming Contest 2018 | $3,000 | 2018 |
O'Donnell, Dan | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Digital Studies./Le champ numérique | $90,000 | 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 |
Zovoilis, Athan | Arts & Science | Canada Foundation for Innovation | RNA Bioinformatics and Genomics Laboratory | $15,939 | 2018 |