Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center regularly hosts visitors and tour groups who come to learn about our ongoing rice research programs and to interact with our productive and widely-respected scientists.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Jianmin Wang and two of his students from Missouri S & T visited Dr. Wengui Yan at the Center on January 12, 2010, to work on a project. Read more...

Dr. Dave Gealy extended an invitiation to Dr. Howard Harrison to visit the Center while he was in Arkanasas. Read more...

 

 

 

Elaf Mohammed Ali, a graduate student at the University of Arkansas in Little Rock, visited the center to work on a collaboration project. Read more...

Old classmates of Dr. Wengui Yan, Dr. R.Q. Zhang and Xiao Rong Wu, visited the Center on February 10, 2010. Read more...

On February 17, 2010, Robert Fireovid met with several scientists to discuss bioenergy research. Read more...

Two BASF employees requested a tour of the Center while they were in the Stuttgart area on February 24, 2010. Read more...

 

 

 

 

 

Chris Isbell is a regular visitor at Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center and on March 2, 2010, he brought two Japanese gentlemen to tour the facility. Read more...

Andy Proctor visited Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center on March 8, 2010, and joined other scientists for a discussion on bioenergy. Read more...

Two students from Southeast Missouri State University dropped by Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center on March 15, 2010. Read more...

Dr. Tamy Perng and her mother Su Lin were in Little Rock for a conference and decided to stop by Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center on March 19, 2010. Read more...

Brandi Clark, a student at Missouri University of Science and Technology, wanted to spend her spring break learning more about rice. Read more...

 

 

On April 2, 2010, four gentlemen from Mars Foods, Inc. met with scientists from Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center and the University of Arkansas Rice Research and Extension Center for a discussion on climate change. Read more...

Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center hosted a meeting for a National Science Foundation funded grant on April 7-9, 2010. Eleven individuals from Cornell University (NY) and Stanford University (CA) travelled to the center for the annual project meeting. Read more...

Dexter Pearson and Leigh Allen, staffers for the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry under Chairman Blanche Lincoln, visited Stuttgart, Arkansas on April 8, 2010. Read more...

Bert Greenwalt is Professor of Agricultural Economics at Arkansas State University and on April 8, 2010, he accompanied several students on a tour of the Arkansas Grand Prairie. Read more...

Dr. Tongjia Yin is an old friend of Dr. Wengui Yan's and when he and his family were recently in Stuttgart, Dr. Yan was more than happy to take them on a tour of Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center on April 12, 2010. Read more...

A leadership program with the University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service, LeadAR Class number 14, visited the Grand Prairie for a seminar on row crop agriculture on April 15-17, 2010. Read more...

On April 22, 2010, thirty international visitors from the Associated Country Women of the World conference and their spouses toured Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center. Read more...

Job shadowing is a wonderful opportunity to learn about different careers. On April 28, 2010, Mitchell Reeves spent all day shadowing the maintenance crew at Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center. Read more...

Wei Lei, a MS student at the University of Arkansas in Pine Bluff contacted Dr. Yulin Jia and requested a tour of Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center. Read more...

 

 

Maria Valerio spent the week of May 2, 2010, at Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center assisting in a cooperative project on the effects of climate change on rice varieties and weedy red rice. Read more...

 

On July 21, 2010, four visitors affiliated with the Arkansas-East Bolivia Partners of the Americas stopped by Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center for a tour of the facility. Read more...

From June 7 through July 26, 2010, Bernice Harris spent her summer learning at Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center through the STRIVE program. Read more..

On September 2-3, 2010, a group of Brazilian rice farmers visited Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center. Read more...

Two graduate students from the University of Arkansas College of Crops, Soil, and Environmental Sciences came by Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center on September 2, 2010. They were with three soybean breeders from China. Read more...

On September 28, 2010, Audra Johnston with the Office of International Students and Scholars of the University of Arkansas came by Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center. Read more about her visit...