Alumni

When Barn Sis was donated to the racing program at Morrisville State College, driver Cole Wimmer wasn’t sure that the three-year-old trotting filly would be fast enough to compete on the New York Sire Stakes harness racing circuit. “She’s tiny,” said Wimmer, a 2006 graduate of the college’s Standardbred racing program who now works for the college as an instructional support assistant.

It’s 4:40 p.m. on Monday, August 28, and Troy Waffner is running late for a 3 p.m. interview.

Approximately seven miles west of Morrisville State College in the town of Nelson, a small facility has been cooking up big dreams. For more than a decade, Nelson Farms, a small-scale, FDA-inspected food processing incubator operated by the auxiliary corporation of Morrisville, has helped form some 1,000 businesses and developed more than 600 food products by providing entrepreneurial agribusiness opportunities for a variety of clients.

MORRISVILLE, NY— Morrisville State will once again serve as a host site for teams of artists, hobbyists, programmers, designers and musicians during the popular Global Game Jam ™ (GGJ) which will be held Jan. 23-25.  Morrisville is one of only a handful of sites in New York State hosting the event, which is a chance for gamers throughout the world to collaborate to explore creativity, tout inventiveness and let imaginations roam as they create playable video games in the course of one weekend.