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The Norwich campus of Morrisville State College will hold its Annual Open House on Dec. 1, from 5-7 p.m. in Roger Follett Hall. The festive, holiday event will feature hors d'oeuvres from area eateries and musical entertainment from the Norwich High School Jazz Band. Information about the college's programs will also be available during the open house, which is free and open to the public. Visit the table that showcases the program you are interested in and enter to win an iPad or Kindle.

Morrisville State College students are among volunteers who will gain a sense of what it feels like to be homeless when they sleep out overnight in handmade shelters. Their effort, spearheaded by the Nutrition and Dietetics Department, is just part of what faculty, staff and students on the Morrisville State College campus are doing to raise education, action and awareness about hunger and homelessness during National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week, Nov. 14-20.

From pink taffeta trimmed in sequins, to sleek beaded, ruffled, plain, long, or short—a collection of dresses and gowns are looking for dates for upcoming holiday and winter school dances. More than 200 dresses, stocked at Cinderella's Closet with the help of Morrisville State College faculty, staff and students, hope to dazzle their way to area teens in time for holiday frolics and festivities.

Ricky DeMers pulled out a pair of gloves, grabbed a small brush and proceeded to lift fingerprints off of a mirror. Nearby, Justin DeLaMothe was photographing scattered evidence—an ax, littered coins, glass, and multiple contusions on a female victim's arm. The mock park crime scene was just one created in assistant professor Clare Armstrong-Seward's Introduction to Criminal Justice class to provide students with a learning experience in collecting evidence.

Morrisville State College's Renewable Energy Training Center (RETC) will hold a workshop on Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency at four different locations from Nov. 6 to 17. The first workshop will be held on Nov. 6, from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m., at the Syracuse Educational Opportunity Center (EOC), with video conferencing taking place at the Rochester and Buffalo EOC locations. The second workshop will be held on Nov. 9, from 6 to 9 p.m., in room 132A of Follett Hall at the Norwich campus.

Morrisville State College will host “Field to Fork in Central New York,” a public educational event on food systems and how they impact our health. The event, Nov.- 11-16, includes presentations, a writing contest, meals made with local foods, a panel discussion and a film viewing. The event is free with the exception of the Mustang Alley local cuisine meal, which costs $4.75 plus tax, and is open to the public.

A Learn and Serve initiative is giving Morrisville State College Collegiate Science Technology Entry Program (CSTEP) students an education outside of the classroom. They're reaching into the community, hosting service projects and initiatives thanks to a $25,000 Learn and Serve Higher Education Grant recently given to the college's CSTEP program by the Corporation for National and Community Service. The grant was supplemented with additional money from CSTEP and the Sheila Johnson Institute.

Morrisville State College is hosting the New York Nut Growers Association (NYNGA) fall meeting on Saturday, Oct. 23. The meeting begins at 9 a.m. in the John W. Stewart Activities Center (STUAC), and includes presentations, student posters, a chestnut roast, and tree planting. The cost to attend is $18 and includes breakfast, lunch and handout materials. Morrisville State College students may attend all presentations at no charge. For more information, or to register, call 914-423-7458, or e-mail sproutnut@aol.com.

A popular exhibit featuring the work of the famed “Magic of Macabre,” Lee Brown Coye, is on display at the Donald G. Butcher Library at Morrisville State College through Nov. 5. In addition to the display, a reception honoring the work of Coye, who died in 1981, will be held in the library on Wednesday, Oct. 20 from 4 to 6 p.m. The display and reception are free and open to the public.

Morrisville State College held its twenty-first annual standardbred sale, taking in approximately $1.6 million. A total of 186 yearlings were sold for an average of $8,563, including 19 yearlings consigned by the Morrisville State College Equine Institute. A unique aspect of the annual event is the experience equine students gain being a part of it. Students were involved in a multitude of activities from bedding stalls, grooming, leading and showing horses, to setting up the business office and assisting with cleanup.