News
Feb 25, 2021
We have received results from all pooled saliva testing conducted Tuesday. One residential student pool and one employee pool were positive. Affected individuals have been informed and notified to stay in precautionary quarantine pending reflex testing, which is underway. All other pools were negative.
Feb 18, 2021
We have received results from all pooled saliva testing conducted Tuesday. Two commuter student pools were positive. Reflex testing is underway. Affected individuals have been informed. All other pools were negative.
![New York State Dairy Princess Shelby Benjamin](/sites/default/files/styles/giant_square_650_x_650_/public/news/promotional-images/Dairy%20Princess%20Shelby-Benjamin-4.jpg?h=a8b3ba75&itok=_Sp4kJdR)
Feb 18, 2021
SUNY Morrisville student, Shelby Benjamin, was crowned 2021-2022 New York State Dairy Princess by the American Dairy Association.
In this role, she will serve as dairy ambassador, helping to promote the state’s dairy industry.
Benjamin, of Norwich, previously was named Dairy Princess of Chenango County.
![Worm composting in Jen Gilbert Jenkins’ labs.](/sites/default/files/styles/giant_square_650_x_650_/public/news/promotional-images/Worms%202%20smaller%20pic.jpg?h=56d0ca2e&itok=tMkItIEZ)
Feb 17, 2021
There is always something going on in assistant professor Jen Gilbert Jenkins’ labs, even when the campus is quiet. For instance, in a purple box, miraculous transformations are taking place with worms! Gilbert Jenkins is using vermicompost (worm composting) to convert a combination of waste hemp material and food scraps into a biologically active planting medium. They may not be as cute as some of the other animals on campus, but these worms are hard workers.
Feb 15, 2021
Dear Mustangs,
Thank you for your continued participation in our weekly COVID-19 pooled saliva testing. As we move forward with mandatory testing each week, SUNY Upstate Medical University has introduced an updated version of its web application used to register for testing.
Feb 12, 2021
We have received results from all pooled saliva testing conducted Tuesday. Two student pools were positive, and one employee pool from the Norwich Campus was positive. Reflex testing is underway. Affected individuals have been informed. All other pools were negative.
Feb 08, 2021
Happy Spring 2021 semester! Thank you to everyone who participated in move-in testing this past weekend.
The next scheduled pooled saliva testing is Tuesday, Feb. 9, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Recreation Center. Nearly everyone except for students who moved in this weekend must plan to participate. Norwich Campus has a separate plan. For the Morrisville campus, tomorrow's testing includes:
Feb 08, 2021
Welcome back, Mustangs! As we begin the Spring 2021 semester today, please find below reminders regarding health screening and testing requirements for all students, faculty and staff who will attend classes on campus, live on campus or plan to use campus facilities. Please also find below important updates for our dining services.
Feb 04, 2021
We have received results from all pooled saliva testing conducted on the Morrisville campus earlier this week. One student pool was positive, and reflex testing is underway. Affected individuals have been informed. All other pools were negative.
Feb 02, 2021
With recent weather alerts, there have been inquiries about today’s scheduled testing on the Morrisville campus. Testing will still take place as planned.
However, employees and students unable to travel safely today should not come to campus just for testing. Employees can come to next week’s testing. Commuter students can participate in this Friday’s move-in testing.
Jan 29, 2021
REMINDER: Return to Campus Pre-Arrival Instructions
As we approach the start of our Spring 2021 semester and the return to life on campus, there are several items that all students who will attend classes on campus, live on campus or plan to use campus facilities must complete before the semester begins on Monday, Feb. 8.
Jan 29, 2021
Our successful dairy drive-thru events have been recognized statewide and are the subject of an award-winning article in the weekly ag publication, Country Folks. The article was written by Troy Bishopp, who attended SUNY Morrisville.
![A piranha swims in a tank at the aquaponics greenhouse at SUNY Morrisville.](/sites/default/files/styles/giant_square_650_x_650_/public/news/promotional-images/_AJC1422.jpg?h=06ac0d8c&itok=0Dmrrbvy)
Jan 28, 2021
MORRISVILLE, N.Y. — An abandoned piranha, found by a student on the doorstep of an aquarium store, has found a new home in SUNY Morrisville’s aquaponics greenhouse.
Assistant Professor Elisa Livengood obtained a permit from the Department of Environmental Conservation and adopted the fish, which will augment lessons in her aquatic science & aquaculture classes and labs.
Jan 28, 2021
We have received results from all pooled saliva testing conducted this week. All pools were negative. Thank you to everyone who volunteered and who participated, and thank you for taking the proper measures to keep our community healthy.
Jan 25, 2021
Return to Campus - Pre-Arrival Instructions
As we approach the start of our Spring 2021 semester and the return to life on campus, there are several items that all students who will attend classes on campus, live on campus or plan to use campus facilities must complete before the semester begins on Monday, Feb. 8.
Jan 23, 2021
We need your help to properly plan for COVID-19 pooled saliva testing. We are asking every employee to complete this short survey. We ask supervisors to ensure their reports complete it so we have an accurate count of on-campus employees to update our testing plans, report to system and help county health officials make plans.
Jan 18, 2021
The next scheduled pooled saliva testing is tomorrow, Tuesday, Jan. 19, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in STUAC. All students currently living on campus must participate. All employees who are regularly on campus physically should plan to participate as well. To comply with SUNY system’s recent guidelines and our recently approved COVID plan, everyone must be tested weekly.
Jan 14, 2021
We hope you have enjoyed a restful winter break! We have delayed our start of classes until Feb. 8.This delay in the start to the semester will allow cases from the holidays to clear, more people to be vaccinated, and more of the semester’s work to be conducted in (hopefully) warmer weather that allows for more ventilation and outdoor activity.
![Taylor McDowell, photo by Jimi Button Photography](/sites/default/files/styles/giant_square_650_x_650_/public/news/promotional-images/drums-middle.jpg?h=03429dac&itok=VgtEABoL)
Dec 15, 2020
One large, ongoing art project is how Taylor McDowell describes his life.Why? Because its elements combine to create a portrait of what the 2015 SUNY Morrisville
graduate loves: web and game development, drumming, storytelling, art and music. Each has shaped the life of the 28-year-old New Hartford, New York resident, whose palette is a colorful blend of perseverance and will.
![Mo the Mustang](/sites/default/files/styles/giant_square_650_x_650_/public/news/promotional-images/mascot-thumb.jpg?h=6c83441f&itok=ZBeZycPC)
Dec 15, 2020
Like most first-year students in 2020, Mo the Mustang’s (they/them/their) arrival on campus at SUNY Morrisville was not what they originally had in mind.
Wearing a face mask, practicing physical distancing, picking up meals to go and otherwise adjusting to pandemic life were some of the firsts that the college’s mascot experienced at the same time as other students.
![Ricardo Gibson, an information technology: application software development major, gaming on a PC.](/sites/default/files/styles/giant_square_650_x_650_/public/2020-12/esports-viewership_0.jpg?h=03429dac&itok=yvgjntcH)
Dec 15, 2020
As the COVID-19 pandemic caused the physical world to remain distanced, the virtual world of esports has emerged to connect people like never before.
SUNY Morrisville students are among those taking a hold of esports (electronic sports), an organized sports competition featuring multiplayer video games where gamers from around the world can compete individually or as a team. They also can tune in as spectators.
![Jessica Miller works with a mannequin in a nursing lab at SUNY Morrisville.](/sites/default/files/styles/giant_square_650_x_650_/public/news/promotional-images/nurse-end.jpg?h=03429dac&itok=4WerUvXj)
Dec 15, 2020
It was going to be a memorable spring break in Morocco.
As she packed her suitcase, Jessica Miller’s mind drifted to the mountainous country of western North Africa, a March trip she had planned for months to marry her fiancé, Mouaad Essaadi, who lives there.
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Dec 15, 2020
Shortly after he graduated from SUNY Morrisville, Kyle Clark ’18 returned to his fifth-generation family dairy farm with a four-year degree in dairy management and a plan to resurrect the creamery that once stood on the property, located on Elk Creek Road in Delhi, New York.
![Brian Simmons, photo by Ben Beagle, Livingston County News](/sites/default/files/styles/giant_square_650_x_650_/public/2020-12/chef-image.jpg?h=bf372811&itok=TM8E5DC3)
Dec 15, 2020
Brian Simmons’ aunt offered him a job washing dishes on a Friday night when her restaurant in Nunda, New York, was short-staffed. “The rest is history,” he said.
Since that day more than two decades ago, Simmons ’01 has built a successful career out of nourishing patrons as owner and chef of The Yard of Ale Restaurant.
![Morrisville-Eaton Central School student Kyle Pearsall, left, gets a hands-on lesson in making raised garden beds alongside ag teacher Rebecca Werbela.](/sites/default/files/styles/giant_square_650_x_650_/public/news/promotional-images/ag-middle.jpg?h=03429dac&itok=Dll6fBQQ)
Dec 15, 2020
Rebecca Werbela ’04 started an agriculture education program at Morrisville-Eaton Middle-High School in a small room with big plans.
As they grew, so did the excitement of her students who are grabbing hold of dynamic lessons — getting their hands dirty building and planting, growing vegetables hydroponically and gaining an understanding about the hundreds of careers available to them in the agriculture industry.