Lyndon Johnson visits IRRI, 26 October 1966. Click photo to view video on YouTube.

Significant dates over 5 decades of IRRI history

Click the month below to access significant dates in IRRI's rich history as the Institute approaches its 50th anniversary in 2010.
  

Put cursor on a director general to identify. Click the photo for enlargement.

* Click here to access a PowerPoint of A Walk through IRRI History, 1959-2006, featuring many video clips
   (10.6 Mb). This will take several minutes to download.

* Click here to access a searchable IRRI staff directory containing thousands of names, 1961-2007
   (23 Mb). This will take several minutes to download.
 

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Historic Videos

1. This video was produced for the occasion of the 1988 World Food Prize
being awarded to Dr. Robert F. Chandler, IRRI's first director general (8:07).

2. This is IRRI, a film by William C. Cobb, circa 1963 (11:22).

3. This 7:22 video clip from Precious Seeds, produced in
2000 and courtesy of AgCom International, recounts the
achievements of 1996 World Food Prize Laureate Hank Beachell
and his colleagues at IRRI. Funding from the USDA-National
Agricultural Library (NAL) supported this video project.

4. Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Norman Borlaug and
Robert Chandler (IRRI's first director general) discuss the origins of
IRRI in a 1994 conversation. This is Part 1 of several clips from this
conversation that will be made available, courtesy of The Idea Channel.

5. Peter Jennings, IRRI's first rice breeder (1961-67), played
a major role in the development of IR8. In this 53:00 video,
he reminisces his epiphany.

IRRI family photo, 15 December 2006
Click photo to enlarge and put cursor on faces
to identify many

IRRI family photo, 14 December 2007
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