RICE PROCESSING PROGRAM - Key Persons


Alice McPike


Anne Okeyo

Job Titles:
  • Student

Annegret Jannasch

Job Titles:
  • Post Doctoral Fellow

Cason Frisby


Christabel Tachie

Job Titles:
  • Student

Dr. Andy Mauromoustakos

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Dr. Griffiths Atungulu

Job Titles:
  • Professor & Director of UA

Dr. Han-Seok Seo

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Professor

Dr. Jarrod Hardke

Job Titles:
  • Rice Research & Extension Center

Dr. Jean-Francois Meullenet

Job Titles:
  • Professor & Director of the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station

Dr. Mahfuzur Rahman

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Dr. Terry Siebenmorgen

Job Titles:
  • Distinguished Professor & Founder

Dr. Ya-Jane Wang

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Evans Ameyaw Owusu

Job Titles:
  • Student

Faith Ouma

Job Titles:
  • Student

Justin Siebenmorgen

Job Titles:
  • Lab Manager

Kaushik Luthra

Job Titles:
  • Post - Doctoral Fellow

M.S. Student

Job Titles:
  • Student

Maggie Kamwendo


Nikitha Modupalli

Job Titles:
  • Post Doctoral Fellow

Pilot Plant

Pilot Plant (2,000 ft 2) equipped with grain drying and processing equipment including temperature and relative humidity control units, phase transition analyzer, self-referencing near-infrared reflectance spectrophotometer and a newly developed prototype for measuring volumetric expansion of cooked rice kernels. This facility also features a lab drying system for both fluidized and non-fluidized rice drying and a system for measuring the EMC of rice and rice products.

Rice Physiology

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Samuel Olaoni

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  • Student

Stephanie Kitchen

Job Titles:
  • Student

Tricia Moore

Job Titles:
  • Program Coordinator