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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Leung, Brenda | Health Sciences | Alberta Health Services | Exploring the mental healthcare needs of children in Alberta | $48,535 | 2016 |
Leung, Brenda | Health Sciences | Alberta Health Services | Metabolomics profiling of metabolic function in pregnant women: assessing an innovation for precision medicine | $10,000 | 2016 |
Li, Fangfang | Arts & Science | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Alberta child language acquisition research: Weaving an integrative and inclusive network | $28,153 | 2016 |
Li, Fangfang | Arts & Science | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Speech production in children enrolled in second language education programs | $151,495 | 2016 |
Li, Fangfang | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | The development of child speech articulation: Longitudinal and cross-language perspectives | $20,000 | 2016 |
Li, Hua | Arts & Science | Canada Foundation for Innovation | Platform for Advanced Design Leading to Manufacturing in Micro-Nano Technologies | $0 | 2016 |
Logue, David | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Subaward: The nature, function and evolution of signal complexity in animal and human communication systems | $20,000 | 2016 |
McNaughton, Bruce | Arts & Science | European Commission | Investigation of local and global cortical circuits with advanced neural probes for high-resolution | $0 | 2016 |
McNaughton, Bruce | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Hippocampal cortical interactions and the extraction of knowledge from episodic memory | $450,000 | 2016 |
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 | 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 |
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 | 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 | Alberta Innovates Health Solutions | The effects of circadian disruption cognition in aging | $45,000 | 2016 |
Morris, Joy | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Symmetries of Cayley Graphs | $80,000 | 2016 |
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 | Canada Foundation for Innovation | The CRDCN Transition to High Performance Computing: Liberating Data for Research and Policy | $11,952 | 2016 |
Newberry, Janice | Arts & Science | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Photo-elicitation and Local Values in Childrearing in Blackfoot Territory | $14,900 | 2016 |
Newberry, Janice | Arts & Science | Alberta Centre for Child, Family and Community Research | Raising Spirit: The Opokaa'sin Digital Storytelling Project | $40,000 | 2016 |
O'Donnell, Dan | Arts & Science | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Future Commons: Transforming Scholarly Communication through Collective Action | $200,000 | 2016 |
Okine, Erasmus | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Biological variations in efficiency of nutrient utilization | $46,945 | 2016 |
Okine, Erasmus | Arts & Science | Alberta Innovation and Advanced Education | Clincial 3T Human MRI facility | $74,000 | 2016 |
Patel, Trushar | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | IDENTIFYING STRUCTURAL FEATURES OF VIRAL RNA RECOGNIZED BY HOST HELICASES | $155,000 | 2016 |
Piquette, Noella | Education | Alberta Health Services | Strengthening the impact of a school-based tobacco prevention program through vigorous evaluation | $145,000 | 2016 |
Popov, Alexey | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Invariant subspaces and their applications in operator theory and operator algebras | $95,000 | 2016 |
Pyle, Gregory | Arts & Science | Environment Canada | Evaluating the resiliency of aquatic ecosystems to a catastrophic mine tailings spill event: The 2014 Mount Polley incident in the Quesnel River Watershed, British Columbia | $168,410 | 2016 |
Rasmussen, Joseph | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Establishing the winter habitat requirements of Cutthroat trout on Gold Creek Alberta | $83,200 | 2016 |
Rice, Jackie | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Sociolinguistics Tools in the Analysis of Language Use in Software Development | $100,000 | 2016 |
Rochdi, Nadia | Arts & Science | Alberta Environment and Parks | A Web-Based Monitoring System for Enhancing the Provincial Mapping and Monitoring Capability | $100,000 | 2016 |
Rodrigues, Hillary | Arts & Science | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Characterizing Modern Nondual Spirituality | $43,048 | 2016 |
Rood, Stewart | Arts & Science | Alberta Innovates Energy and Environment Solutions | Implementing Functional Flows: Floodplain Water Use and Dam Operations in the South Saskatchewan River Basin | $360,000 | 2016 |
Roussel, Marc | Arts & Science | MITACS | A new gene network model of associative memory | $5,000 | 2016 |
Roussel, Marc | Arts & Science | MITACS | Design of a gene network implementing an associative memory circuit | $5,000 | 2016 |
Schultz, elizabeth | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Functional analysis of the FKD proteins adn environmental control of leaf vein pattern | $140,000 | 2016 |
Shan, Gongbing | Arts & Science | Sport Science Association of Alberta | Biomechanical Quantification of Influence Factors Related to the Hammer-Throw Quality | $7,000 | 2016 |
Spenceley, Shannon | Health Sciences | MSI Foundation | Reducing Moral Distress in Nursing Providers of Dementia Care: Knowledge to Action in Continuing Care | $98,000 | 2016 |
Sutherland, Robert | Arts & Science | Alberta Prion Research Institute | Imaging spread of pathogenic effects of amyloid-§ seeding | $142,300 | 2016 |
Tatsuno, Masami | Arts & Science | Alberta Innovates Health Solutions | Targeted memory reactivation for faster motor learning | $32,820 | 2016 |
Tatsuno, Masami | Arts & Science | Japan Science and Technology Agency | Investigation of mathematical principles of consolidation of procedural memory | $0 | 2016 |
Thakor, Nehal | Arts & Science | Rare Disease Foundation | Developing Next Generation Therapeutic Approaches for Glioblastoma Multiforme Using Patients Derived Brain Tumor Initiating Cells | $3,500 | 2016 |
Thakor, Nehal | Arts & Science | Alberta Innovates Health Solutions | Developing Next Generation Therapeutic Approach for Glioblastoma Multiforme Using Patient Derived Brain Tumor Initiating Cells | $40,000 | 2016 |
Thakor, Nehal | Arts & Science | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council | Regulation of mRNA Translation During Cellular Stress and Apoptosis | $130,000 | 2016 |
Vallee, Mickey | Arts & Science | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Vibration Communities Project: Citizen Science, Big Data, and Bioacoustics | $54,098 | 2016 |
Vasey, Paul | Arts & Science | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Inter-sexual mate competition in three cultures | $141,756 | 2016 |
Wetmore, Stacey | Arts & Science | Zayed University | Computational Studies of the Connection between Heard Disease and Diabetes | $16,000 | 2016 |
Wieden, Hans-Joachim | Arts & Science | MindFuel | High School IGEM 2017 | $16,000 | 2016 |
Wieden, Hans-Joachim | Arts & Science | The RNA Society | ARRTI RNA Salon | $1,000 | 2016 |
Wieden, Hans-Joachim | Arts & Science | Alberta Innovates Health Solutions | Emerging Functions Of The Bacterial Translation Machinery As Targets For Novel Antimicrobials | $55,100 | 2016 |