News
Sep 18, 2017
MORRISVILLE, NY—Brittney Noto is learning a lot about the dairy industry—like how to run a cattle sale.
For the second year, Noto, an animal science-dairy student from Delevan, served as a chair of Morrisville State College’s Autumn Review Sale.
This year’s sale grossed $168,500 with 95 total live lots, 25 milking lots and five embryo lots.
Sep 12, 2017
MORRISVILLE, NY—A variety of laughs, food, fun and excitement are once again on tap to celebrate Morrisville State College’s annual Mustang Weekend Friday, Sept. 29 and Saturday, Sept. 30.
Sep 12, 2017
MORRISVILLE, NY—Morrisville State College has made the grade again. The college has been ranked No. 29 among the Best Regional Colleges in the North in the U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges 2018 issue, a publication renowned for its higher education rankings.
Morrisville State College is also at No. 13 in the Top Public Schools, Regional Colleges North in the 2018 Best Colleges rankings.
Sep 11, 2017
MORRISVILLE, NY—The Morrisville State College Dairy Club is set to host its annual Autumn Review Sale on Saturday, Sept. 16.
Sep 06, 2017
MORRISVILLE, NY—Morrisville State College will host its annual Fall Yearling Sale Sunday, Sept. 17 at noon at the college’s Nancy Sears Stowell Arena on Swamp Road.
The highly anticipated event draws a crowd of potential buyers, sellers, trainers and owners from across the Northeast. MSC’s sale is the only one of its kind in New York State on a college campus.
Sep 01, 2017
MORRISVILLE, NY—Morrisville State College student Ashley Mount and a lamb named “Steve” took top honors at the 2017 Erie County Fair Market Lamb show.
“Steve” is a crossbreed wether bred selected as Grand Champion Market Lamb at the fair, where he was shown by Mount, an agriculture business development student from Towanda, Pa.
Sep 01, 2017
MORRISVILLE, NY—Morrisville State College president Dr. David E. Rogers joined Department of Agriculture and Markets Commissioner Richard A. Ball and State Labor Commissioner Roberta Reardon at the Great New York State Fair to launch its first-ever Agriculture Career Day on Friday morning.
Aug 22, 2017
MORRISVILLE, NY—More than 1,200 incoming freshmen and transfer students will be welcomed on-campus as Morrisville State College celebrates Welcome Weekend Aug. 24-27. Classes begin Aug. 28 at both the Morrisville and Norwich campuses.
ONCAMPUS SUNY is welcoming 39 students for the fall semester, hailing from China, Egypt, India, Kazakhstan, Nigeria and South Korea.
Aug 18, 2017
MORRISVILLE, NY—Morrisville State College will have a strong presence again this year at the Great New York State Fair, featuring a handcrafted scale-model canoe, a student-built hot rod, horses and renewable energy and hemp displays. The fair runs Aug. 23-Sept. 4.
Jul 12, 2017
MORRISVILLE, NY—Two staff members from the Children’s Center at Morrisville State College were recently honored with statewide awards as the center also claimed national reaccreditation.
![Nicole Chiapetta and Chance](/sites/default/files/styles/giant_square_650_x_650_/public/2018-05/pic-2.jpg?itok=ADQUD4EN)
Jun 19, 2017
Every summer growing up, Hayley Cosgrove looked forward to attending The Great New York State Fair so she could admire Morrisville’s elegant stable of Belgians. Cosgrove fondly admired the graceful draft horses as they competed in the show ring, wishing she could be right alongside them.
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Jun 19, 2017
Morrisville State College senior Byron Evans hadn’t yet chosen a major when he first arrived on campus in 2013, let alone thought about joining the men’s cross country team. Four years later, his name is etched all over the college’s record books.
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Jun 19, 2017
During a wood processing course last fall, Morrisville State College students Lena Hanes and Paige Biviano learned important lessons: Building furniture takes a long time, demands lots of patience and requires seemingly endless sanding.
![Fred Bach, professor, agricultural engineering and diesel technology—MRSA survivor](/sites/default/files/styles/giant_square_650_x_650_/public/news/promotional-images/4p7b9636.jpg?itok=FMfhtbPu)
Jun 19, 2017
“I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.” John D. Rockefeller
In the midst of adversity, four Morrisville State College colleagues found a silver lining.
![From left: Eric Lyons, AngelTowndrow, Christine Barta-Gallagher, Doreen Williams](/sites/default/files/styles/giant_square_650_x_650_/public/2018-05/norwich_aero.jpg?itok=oou2dYKo)
Jun 19, 2017
The first time Christine Barta-Gallagher wrote a paper for a Morrisville State College class, she cried. “It was overwhelming,” she said. “It took me days to write that paper. For me to sit down and type 2,000 words was really difficult.”
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Jun 19, 2017
Imagine if homework consisted of operating chainsaws, wielding axes and log rolling.
That’s exactly the case for members of Morrisville’s woods sports team.
![Head Brewer Micheal Coons](/sites/default/files/styles/giant_square_650_x_650_/public/2018-05/4p7b9152.jpg?itok=NPCAQjZj)
Jun 19, 2017
Morrisville State College is tapping into the renaissance of the craft brewing industry in New York State, with a new curriculum and four-year degree program that includes hands-on brewing experience at the Copper Turret restaurant and a line of Morrisville-branded beers that will be available to the public.
Jun 16, 2017
MORRISVILLE, NY—As part of Morrisville State College’s annual celebration of academic excellence, students from the School of Science, Technology and Health Studies were honored for their outstanding achievements.
More than 175 students were recognized on the school’s academic honors list during the annual awards dinner, where 22 awards and scholarships were also presented.
Jun 15, 2017
MORRISVILLE, NY—Jenna Doktor, of Corfu, and Savannah Short, of Coram, have received the 2017-18 Bridget Kate Publicover Scholarship, awarded annually by the Morrisville College Foundation to students majoring in an equine program.
Jun 13, 2017
MORRISVILLE, NY—Morrisville State College partner Good Nature Farm Brewery is officially open for business. New York State Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo recently announced its official grand opening in Hamilton, Madison County.
Jun 12, 2017
MORRISVILLE, NY—The Children’s Center at Morrisville State College will host its ninth annual Race for ChildRUN on Saturday, July 15, to benefit students.
Proceeds from the ChildRUN benefit the Sheila Johnson Child Care Scholarship, awarded to an MSC student who has a child enrolled at the Children’s Center. The event will feature a 5K (five-kilometer) run, as well as a one-mile fun run for younger children and their friends and family.
Jun 06, 2017
MORRISVILLE, NY— Morrisville State College will host more than 1,000 high school boys at this year’s American Legion Boys State government camp June 25-July 1.
Attendees were chosen based on their exceptional qualities of leadership, character, scholarship, loyalty and service to their schools.
May 26, 2017
MORRISVILLE, NY—Morrisville State College students Mailynn Amos, of Brewerton, and Zipporah Oparebea Opare, of Ghana, West Africa, are the recipients of this year’s Beverly McKay Office Technology Award, an annual scholarship presented to selected students majoring in office technology programs.
May 16, 2017
MORRISVILLE, NY—Future agricultural leaders honed their skills on the Morrisville State College campus during this year’s New York State FFA Convention May 11-13.
More than 1,000 of the best and brightest high school students from across New York flocked to campus to gain hands-on experience in their future agricultural career fields during the event, which showcased some of the best MSC has to offer.
May 10, 2017
MORRISVILLE, NY—Shelby Scholefield lined up diagrams that illustrate the relationships between a male murder victim and people he may have known.
“The ones close to the center, the closer they are to the victim,” said Scholefield, one of seven criminal justice students from Morrisville State College who recently assisted the Chenango County Sheriff’s Office with a cold case murder investigation.