Throughout IRRI's 9-day open
house, 19-26 April 2010, The IRRI Nostalgia Theatre will have
regularly scheduled showings -- on the "big screen" in the Robert Havener Auditorium --
of a variety of contemporary and historic films and videos about IRRI and its staff members.
Audiences will:
Screen the World Premiere
of IRRI's new video for visitors, Rice Science for a Better World.
View the earliest film
ever produced about IRRI (1963), This is IRRI.
Peter Jennings, IRRI's first rice breeder (1961-67),
played a major role in the development of IR8, the variety that
started the Green Revolution in rice. He reminisces his
epiphany in a very engaging interview from his home in Florida.
Clips from 1991 PBS-IRRI
production
of the Seeds of Hope
T.T. Chang, IRRI's
principal
geneticist (1961-91), talks
about the value of rice's diversity.
.
Some comments on IRRI's
challenges in 2010 and beyond
Ronnie Coffman, IRRI plant breeder, 1971-81; currently chair,
Department of Plant Breeding & Genetics,
and director of International Programs, Cornell University
Susan McCouch,
IRRI associate geneticist, 1990-94; currently
Professor of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Cornell University
The trouble with you economists!
Randy Barker, IRRI agricultural economist and head,
Economics Department, 1966-78; acting head, IRRI Social
Sciences Division, 2007-08, and
Robert Herdt, IRRI economist, 1973-83, head of
Economics Department, 1978-83; later director, agricultural
sciences, and vice president, The Rockefeller Foundation