News
Jan 31, 2023
The SUNY Morrisville men’s ice hockey team will be lacing up their skates Friday night as they play host to SUNY Canton at the Morrisville IcePlex, but for the team, it’s more than just a game; it’s the opportunity to share something they love with the young eyes that one day hope for the same opportunity.
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Jan 25, 2023
Interested in making a game and being part of a global experiment in creativity? SUNY Morrisville is once again serving as a host site for Global Game Jam®, the world’s largest game jam event, taking place Friday, Feb. 3-Sunday, Feb. 5.
During the worldwide event, participants are given a central theme and just 48 hours to create a video or board/card game.
![SUNY Morrisville cows](/sites/default/files/styles/giant_square_650_x_650_/public/news/promotional-images/20221010_150852.jpg?h=1d42739f&itok=dzcET1xU)
Jan 23, 2023
SUNY Morrisville has added a Bachelor of Technology degree in agricultural science to its program lineup.
The new bachelor’s degree, which launches in Fall 2023, enables students to choose from four specialty tracks: dairy management, agronomy, livestock management, and agricultural outreach and education.
![Posing with Finn are, from left, equine students Mak Park,Victoria Eqstein, Carli Potter and Gianna Auriemma.](/sites/default/files/styles/giant_square_650_x_650_/public/news/background-banners/fann-hero.jpg?h=5b8344af&itok=mSyQ74Ak)
Jan 09, 2023
Janis Barth, owner and editor of New York Horse Magazine, shares a firsthand story about donating her beloved horse to SUNY Morrisville’s equine program.
Sunday morning. The air is crisp with blue-ribbon dreams and the first intercollegiate horse show of the season is ramping up at the SUNY Morrisville Western barn.
![President David Rogers and Jan Rogers](/sites/default/files/styles/giant_square_650_x_650_/public/news/background-banners/campaign-banner.jpg?h=5b8344af&itok=v6yml2Wg)
Jan 09, 2023
With the college’s official launch of the Campaign for Morrisville, an initiative that will strengthen resources for generations of Mustangs, there’s never been a more exciting time at SUNY Morrisville.
“We’re laying the foundation for the next 100 years of applied education,” said Theresa Kevorkian, vice president for Institutional Advancement. “This transformative campaign is going to change the future of our college.”
![Megan Viera](/sites/default/files/styles/giant_square_650_x_650_/public/news/background-banners/megan-hero.jpg?h=5b8344af&itok=RF-LmD0S)
Jan 09, 2023
Megan Viera ’18 concentrates on her footing as she walks up a wooden ramp leading to the porch of a two-story farmhouse. A prominent sign hanging by the door — “It’s so good to be home” sums up a near decade of perseverance for the 27-year-old Sherburne, New York, resident.
![SUNY Morrisville students plant a tree](/sites/default/files/styles/giant_square_650_x_650_/public/news/background-banners/earth-day-banner.jpg?h=5b8344af&itok=2AwFQVUD)
Jan 09, 2023
As the world came together to acknowledge Earth Day this year, SUNY Morrisville was planting a new seed — a campus tradition that joined acts of kindness with sustainability to celebrate the day.
![Sheila Marshman with colleagues and students. Photo by Alaina Potrikus](/sites/default/files/styles/giant_square_650_x_650_/public/news/background-banners/sheila-hero.jpg?h=5b8344af&itok=cddKRwja)
Jan 09, 2023
Walking across campus, Sheila Marshman greets a group of students with a wide grin, chatting about her daughter’s recent performance at the All-American Dairy Show in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Visiting an alum at a local farm later that day, she doesn’t hesitate to hop up on a forage harvester to pose for a photo, striding across the hay fields with confidence.
![Wendy Groves (right), holds her granddaughter, Gracie, while standing beside her daughter, Taylor Massett, and grandson, Connor (center), and son-in-law, Cody Massett (left).](/sites/default/files/styles/giant_square_650_x_650_/public/news/background-banners/children-center-hero.jpg?h=5b8344af&itok=r77WjREs)
Jan 09, 2023
Wendy Groves can still remember that first day of drop off at the Children’s Center on the SUNY Morrisville campus nearly 30 years ago.
![George (center) with his son, Jason, and daughter, Trudi.](/sites/default/files/styles/giant_square_650_x_650_/public/2023-01/wall-elias-family-adj.jpg?h=5b8344af&itok=uukYcbkx)
Jan 09, 2023
The story of George and Barb Elias is a perfect reminder that anyone can leave an extraordinary legacy. George Elias ’70 (instrument technology) endowed a scholarship in honor of his late wife, Barb ’81 (horse husbandry), the Barbara A. Elias ’81 Endowed Scholarship Fund.
Barb left a trail of giving that spread from New York State to Colorado and many places in-between. The scholarship George created will continue her legacy.
![Tweh Johnson in the green house](/sites/default/files/styles/giant_square_650_x_650_/public/news/background-banners/tweh-banner.jpg?h=5b8344af&itok=RuBSIBtO)
Jan 09, 2023
As a child, Tweh Johnson would often get in trouble for the numerous science experiments he concocted through his wild imagination.
While they didn’t always go as planned, they all played a role in helping him discover his insatiable thirst for knowledge.
That same inquisitiveness has now led him to a degree in the field of his dreams, thanks to SUNY Morrisville.
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Dec 23, 2022
High upon a hill overlooking the SUNY Morrisville campus, students, faculty and staff are working long before the sun rises.
Some are milking cows in the college’s high-tech milking parlor, while others are recording data on computers, pushing feed and performing other necessary tasks.
![A wood products technology student works on a project](/sites/default/files/styles/giant_square_650_x_650_/public/news/promotional-images/Wood%20Products%20student%20activity_1.jpg?h=29234840&itok=LwzmhbTe)
Dec 09, 2022
Wood products technology students are winding down from a productive semester, which included various wood processing and furniture design and construction class projects.
![President David Rogers and Jan Rogers](/sites/default/files/styles/giant_square_650_x_650_/public/news/promotional-images/President%20David%20Rogers%20and%20Jan%20Rogers.jpg?h=8d7c1baf&itok=3nVDk3kc)
Nov 21, 2022
MORRISVILLE, N.Y. — SUNY Morrisville kicked off its Campaign for Morrisville in grand fashion, receiving a $100,000 pledge from college President David Rogers and his wife, Associate Professor Jan Rogers.
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Nov 14, 2022
It’s a monumental day in SUNY Morrisville’s history as the college announced its first master’s degree in Food & Agribusiness (FAB).
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Nov 10, 2022
SUNY Morrisville Conservation Tri-Society (CTS) club members were recently busy doing service activities at Camp Kingsley for the Leatherstocking Council’s scouting programs.
The students evaluated an area for invasive plant removal, refloated a dock that had been pinned by a beaver-felled tree, laid out a new trail and conducted trail maintenance.
Oct 24, 2022
In celebration of National Author’s Day, the Human Services Institute at the SUNY Morrisville Norwich Campus, in conjunction with the Chenango County Historical Society & Museum, is highlighting five authors on Tuesday, Nov. 1.
The event, which is free and open to the public, will be held at the Norwich Campus, located at 20 Conkey Avenue in Norwich.
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Oct 18, 2022
Suzan Harkness is the new Provost at SUNY Morrisville, beginning Jan. 9, 2023.
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Oct 13, 2022
SUNY Morrisville’s annual Autumn Review Sale, “Magic of Morrisville,” is Friday, Oct. 14.
The sale, run by the SUNY Morrisville Dairy Club, starts at 7 p.m. at the college’s former draft horse barn at 5000 Hart Road, near the Arnold Fisher Dairy Complex off of Eaton Street.
The sale features 43 live lots up for consignment plus an embryo lot and semen lot.
Sep 28, 2022
There’s no mistaking Rebecca Hargrave’s love for arboriculture and all things trees.
The SUNY Morrisville professor’s enthusiasm toward the field and her innovative, hands-on learning have spirited students and spread to a campus and community.
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Sep 23, 2022
SUNY Morrisville nursing student Lilly Kairewich, of Chittenango, is the recipient of the 2022 Curt Greene Memorial Scholarship and the Sweet Karen Scholarship.
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Sep 14, 2022
Dylan Rees, a student in SUNY Morrisville’s technology management bachelor’s degree program, is spreading his disc golf talent to the community.
Instead of a usual internship, Rees launched a startup business, Flying Mile Disc Golf, as part of his entrepreneurship practicum in associate professor Tom Pilewski’s class.
Sep 13, 2022
MORRISVILLE, N.Y. — SUNY Morrisville has been recognized again for its excellence with numerous listings in the 2023 U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges rankings.
The annual report ranks colleges and universities nationwide according to their performance on diverse measures of academic quality. Regional universities and regional colleges are divided and ranked in four geographical groups: North, South, Midwest and West.
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Aug 24, 2022
SUNY Morrisville can be spotted throughout this year’s Great New York State Fair, which runs Wednesday, Aug. 24-Monday, Sept. 5.
![Alumnus Andrew O’Connell at the Men’s US STIHL® Rookie Championships, where he set a national rookie record and is now Sweden-bound for the STIHL® Rookie World Championships next year.](/sites/default/files/styles/giant_square_650_x_650_/public/news/promotional-images/Andrew%20O%27Connell.jpg?h=1ffd9d36&itok=YfU6A0_y)
Aug 23, 2022
MORRISVILLE, NY — SUNY Morrisville alumnus Andrew O’Connell is gearing up for a busy year. He crushed the Men’s US STIHL® Rookie Championships in Little Rock, Arkansas, July 21, taking home a gold medal, setting a national rookie record and landing a spot in the STIHL® Rookie World Championships in Sweden next year.
Training starts now for the world event, O’Connell said in a recent telephone interview.