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Jul 16, 2019
MORRISVILLE, N.Y. — Elijah Kozubal digs science. The 13-year-old ninth grader wants to be a marine biologist someday. He’s learning more about various careers in science and technology during a three-week summer Science and Technology Entry Program (STEP) at SUNY Morrisville through July 25.
![Dr. Anibal Torres Bernal](/sites/default/files/styles/giant_square_650_x_650_/public/news/promotional-images/Anibal%20Torres%20Bernal%20closeup.jpg?itok=7VxmcyiE)
Jul 10, 2019
MORRISVILLE, N.Y. — Aníbal Torres Bernal is the new dean of the School of Liberal Arts, Sciences & Society at SUNY Morrisville, beginning July 10.
![Dr. Stevie Watson](/sites/default/files/styles/giant_square_650_x_650_/public/news/promotional-images/Stevie%20Watson%201.jpg?itok=WwlBUSxY)
Jul 02, 2019
MORRISVILLE, N.Y.— Stevie Watson is the new dean of the School of Agriculture, Business & Technology at SUNY Morrisville, beginning July 1.
Jun 21, 2019
NORWICH, N.Y. — As part of its 50th-anniversary celebration, the SUNY Morrisville Norwich Campus hosted a dinner to honor members of the local community.
May 23, 2019
MORRISVILLE, NY—Three SUNY Morrisville faculty and staff members were recently honored.
Receiving the SUNY Morrisville Distinguished Faculty Award was Alfred P. Muss II, of Fayetteville, professor of business & entrepreneurship. Muss joined the Morrisville faculty in 2001, where he has been instrumental in the growth of programs, developing numerous courses and degrees, including the entrepreneurship & small business management B.B.A.
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May 15, 2019
Breaking into the upper echelons of professional horse training isn’t easy, especially for east coast riders who aren’t from horse families. Jeremy Gates ’99 is proving that hard work and determination can overcome geographical boundaries and a later introduction to the horse industry. His career boasts one of the highest scores in a National Reining Horse Association (NRHA) event, as well as world and reserve world championship titles.
May 15, 2019
The room went silent as this year’s Global Game Jam® (GGJ) theme, “What Home Means to You,” was unveiled.
And with that, James Cook and his teammates sequestered themselves in a classroom at SUNY Morrisville, serving as a host site, and spent the next 48 hours in imaginative indulgence and intensive programming, creating a video game from scratch.
![Cannabis leaves, photo by Allisa Coomey](/sites/default/files/styles/giant_square_650_x_650_/public/news/promotional-images/dsc09519.jpg?h=0fa79da3&itok=uQ3sEAtj)
May 15, 2019
After playing a major role in the revitalization of industrial hemp in New York State, SUNY Morrisville is rolling out a new minor in cannabis studies that will prepare students for the rapidly growing medicinal and recreational marijuana industry.
![Kate Augustine, left, and Emily Coscomb view green frog tadpoles at Rogers Environmental Education Center during a “live-learning” Herpetology class](/sites/default/files/styles/giant_square_650_x_650_/public/news/promotional-images/4p7b0696.jpg?h=48d043e4&itok=8njGG6eq)
May 15, 2019
Talon Abrams has been fascinated with amphibians and reptiles since he was 4 years old, catching snakes and frogs in a backyard creek at his Madison, New York, home. Some even made their way into his bedroom so he could examine them more closely in a glass bowl.
That allure eventually led him to SUNY Morrisville to pursue a bachelor’s degree in renewable resources technology. He wants to land in a career where he can help aquatic life, animals and the environment.
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May 15, 2019
Five years ago, Elizabeth Hope Noble ’16 was finishing high school and serving as valedictorian of her senior class. The self-described "small-town girl'' was ready for college and thinking about life beyond it. She knew she wanted to work in a field where she could have a positive impact on people and she knew she wanted to see more of the world.
May 15, 2019
Tossing a lacrosse ball back and forth was a big part of Louie ’15 and Nick Geswaldo’s childhood. While others were playing video games, the brothers were shooting and catching, from dawn to dusk, in the backyard of their LaFayette, New York, home.
As they got older, their love for lacrosse deepened their brotherly camaraderie and spread to a college community.
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May 15, 2019
Long days on the farm, grit and determination have come to define dairy management student Carrie Shuman on her journey to graduation.
Born and raised on a former dairy farm in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, Shuman amassed emotional and financial hardship following the death of her father during high school and the recent loss of her brother.
![Renewable resources technology student Emilee Niejadlik celebrated graduation day in Alaska where she is doing great work caring for the oceans and animals that live in it](/sites/default/files/styles/giant_square_650_x_650_/public/news/promotional-images/emilee.jpg?h=7f412c8f&itok=oi46kL3V)
May 14, 2019
This semester has been anything but ordinary for SUNY Morrisville student Emilee Niejadlik.
Through an internship as an aquarium fellow at the world-class Alaska SeaLife Center (ASLC), she interacted with octopuses, helped heal a wolf eel, and saw firsthand the magnificence of a sunflower sea star, the largest many-rayed sea star in the world.
May 14, 2019
MORRISVILLE, NY—SUNY Morrisville graduates celebrated commencement day with family and friends amid a stage adorned with ferns and flowers grown and arranged by students in the college’s horticulture program. Noteworthy about this year’s graduates is the first cohort of nursing bachelor’s degree students.
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May 07, 2019
MORRISVILLE, NY—He worked with different wind turbine towers and took a tower climbing and rescue class. Last week, SUNY Morrisville student Dylan Mathew added wind turbine maintenance to his skill set.
The Long Island native’s goal is to learn all he can through the college’s renewable energy bachelor’s degree program and to sign up for every opportunity offered to him.
“I never know what I will be doing in the future, so I try to learn as much as possible,” he said.
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Apr 30, 2019
MORRISVILLE, NY—Faculty, staff and students are gearing up for two agricultural and dairy events this weekend: the sixth annual Milk Run on Friday, May 3, and Dairy Showmanship on Saturday, May 4.
The Milk Run is a family-friendly, five-kilometer run, walk or crawl open to all skill levels. A one-mile fun run begins at 5:30 p.m., followed by the 5K run beginning at 6 p.m. in front of Marshall Hall. The Milk Run is part of the Route 20 Road Race Challenge.
Apr 25, 2019
MORRISVILLE, NY—SUNY Morrisville students Zainab Jimoh, of Staten Island, and Layne Martin, of Cazenovia, have been honored with the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence.
Apr 22, 2019
MORRISVILLE, NY—Did you know that the average Holstein dairy cow drinks 25-30 gallons of water per day? Or that cows can smell something up to six miles away?
Learn more about cows, agriculture and SUNY Morrisville’s programs and dairy complex during Spring on the Farm, Saturday, April 27.
The event, which is free and open to the public, is from noon-4 p.m. at the SUNY Morrisville Arnold R. Fisher Dairy Complex, located off of Eaton Street.
Mar 19, 2019
MORRISVILLE, NY— Gilligan’s Ice Cream loves its fans so much, they are letting them choose a new SUNY Morrisville indulgence through a Mustang Ice Cream Contest.
SUNY Morrisville alumni Andy Lagoe ’92 and Gil Hodges ’92 along with partner Mike Lagoe, owners of Gilligan’s Ice Cream, (www.gilliganssherburne.com), located in Sherburne, devised the contest, which lauds their Mustang pride.
Mar 19, 2019
NORWICH, NY—The SUNY Morrisville Norwich Campus and Human Services Institute will present a community forum on the opioid crisis Thursday, March 28, from 1:30-4:30 p.m. in the community room, #132A & B of Follett Hall on the Norwich Campus. Light refreshments will be served at 1 p.m.
Feb 28, 2019
MORRISVILLE, NY—Winter’s harsh elements don’t stop SUNY Morrisville’s woods sports team.
Behind the college’s aquaculture center, amid frigid temperatures, snow and ice, they shovel snow off of the practice field and swing axes and fire up chainsaws until dark.
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Feb 01, 2019
MORRISVILLE, NY—The newest member of the New York State University Police at SUNY Morrisville is headed to the police academy.
For the next 20 weeks, Bruin, a year-old black German Shepherd, and his new partner, New York State University Police Officer Nicole Wright, will undergo intense training at the New York State Police Canine Training Facility in Cooperstown.
Dec 21, 2018
MORRISVILLE, NY—After helping bring joy to children in need of care, the SUNY Morrisville Campus Activities Board (CAB) was recently honored with the 2018 Northeast Community Service Event of the Year award by the Association for the Promotion of Campus Activities (APCA).
![Shana Prosser, a SUNY Morrisville nursing student and combat veteran](/sites/default/files/styles/giant_square_650_x_650_/public/news/promotional-images/combat.jpg?h=b4e301e9&itok=iZK1paJu)
Dec 17, 2018
Beyond a tattoo on her left forearm, nursing student Shana Prosser doesn’t advertise her military service. She spends her days in class or clocking in clinical hours at
the hospital, then returns home to her husband and two children in rural Chenango County.
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Dec 17, 2018
Dual-sport student-athlete Jordan Anderson turns competitive fire into a career
A chance attendance of a lacrosse game changed the course of Jordan Anderson’s life.
Anderson ’17 had just wrapped up a very successful freshman year on the Mustang women’s basketball team, earning Rookie of the Year status in the North Eastern Athletic Conference (NEAC) for her performance as the team’s starting point guard.