The USA Staff Ambassadors visited the Missouri State Mountain Grove Campus. Although the hayride was cancelled by rain, the ambassadors went on a bus tour of the field and research area let by Dr. Martin Kaps with the help of his graduate student, Xinyi Zhang. The group, led by Debbie Donnellan, tasted MSU wines, toured the grape biotechnology lab with Dr. Wenping Qiu and his staff, the Paul Evans Library of Fruit Science with Pam Mayer, and the MSU winery and distillery with Josh Glasson and Dr. Karl Wilker. They later toured Shepard Hall where they met Dr. Maciej Pszczolkowski, a researcher in entomology and Leslie Akers, who manages fruit and wine sales.
