The Fulbright Program is a U.S.-based and government supported foundation which pours $235 million U.S. each year into research grants, scholarships, academic exchanges and other education programs.

"Our goal is to have connections between the two countries," Jennifer Regan, a program officer with the Canada-U.S. Fulbright Program in Ottawa, said Tuesday.

She is interim director of U of Minnesota's Institute on the Environment, and co-director of the Water Resources Centre. [Deborah Swackhamer] is a scientific adviser to the International Joint Commission and to the Environment Protection Agency in the U.S. Her lecture is free and open to the public.