News
Aug 07, 2020
As we approach the start of the fall semester, we will share a series of messages to ensure that you have answers to as many of your questions as possible before returning to campus. Please find below information regarding access and availability of COVID-19 personal protective equipment (PPE) and prevention supplies to help keep the campus community safe.
Aug 06, 2020
The Northeast Women's Hockey League (NEWHL), with whom SUNY Morrisville holds membership in the sport of women's ice hockey, issued a statement Thursday afternoon, suspending conference and non-conference competition until Jan. 1, 2021, due to the ongoing challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Aug 06, 2020
As we approach the start of the fall 2020 semester, we will share a series of messages to ensure you have answers to as many of your questions as possible before returning to campus. Please find below updates to our housing policy, as well as information regarding visitation in our residence halls.
Aug 06, 2020
As you may be aware, rates of COVID infections are increasing in PA, especially in the Philadelphia and surrounding areas. Although the rate of COVID infections in your area may be much lower than in other areas of the state, overall Pennsylvania's community transmission rates of COVID are rising.
![SUNY Morrisville Esports](/sites/default/files/styles/giant_square_650_x_650_/public/events/promotional-images/Esports-Primary%20Logo%20with%20Horse%20Opaque%20BG.png?h=7d7994da&itok=TYu56Bf0)
Jul 31, 2020
The term “esports” may be unfamiliar to some, but it has quickly become a buzzword on the SUNY Morrisville campus.
Jul 20, 2020
When Employees Will Return
With the opening of school approaching, and SUNY Morrisville’s Return to Campus Plan approved by SUNY System Offices, additional details are available on employees’ return to work.
![Horses who once relied on classes of students for their care, learned to rely on unheralded equine students and dedicated faculty and staff to keep them going during the COVID-19 quarantine, including Kaitlin Renschen, left, with Donald, and Kendalle Booth with Wilma.](/sites/default/files/styles/giant_square_650_x_650_/public/news/promotional-images/Kaitlin%20Renschen%20and%20Kendalle%20Booth_0.jpg?h=56d0ca2e&itok=jSBsBvhV)
Jul 20, 2020
MORRISVILLE, N.Y. — She’s generally a jovial horse, but Lola is happier than ever these days. Poking her nose through a stall at the SUNY Morrisville Western barn, she nickers at two students on whose care she has come to rely the past few months.
Equine students Kaitlin Renschen and Kendalle Booth are equally excited to see their four-legged friend, having a natural conversation with her as they lead her to the Western riding ring.
Jul 20, 2020
The State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC), with whom SUNY Morrisville holds associate membership in the sports of field hockey and men’s ice hockey, issued a statement Monday evening, suspending fall sports competition.
In addition, the SUNYAC Presidents, in consultation with the SUNYAC Board of Directors, delayed winter conference and non-conference schedules until Jan. 1, 2021.
Jul 17, 2020
Dear student and family members,
Hello from the SUNY Morrisville Student Health Center. We are excited to welcome students back to campus for the Fall 2020 semester.
During the past few months, we have all learned that COVID-19 can spread rapidly in a community. SUNY Morrisville needs your help in keeping our campus community healthy!
Jul 17, 2020
The North Eastern Athletic Conference (NEAC) Presidents' Council issued a statement Friday, unanimously voting to not conduct intercollegiate athletic competition this upcoming fall semester due to the impact of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
SUNY Morrisville competes in the NEAC in men's and women's cross country, men's golf, men's and women's soccer, and women's volleyball during the fall season.
Jul 16, 2020
NORWICH, N.Y. — The SUNY Morrisville Norwich Campus is offering a new human services certificate, which is available online and on campus.
The 21-credit program provides education and training to individuals who are looking for a career helping others and for professionals already employed in the human services field who want to advance their careers. The campus also offers an A.A.S. degree in human services.
Jul 15, 2020
The Empire 8 Presidents Council issued a statement on fall sports Wednesday evening, unanimously voting to postpone all fall competition due to the COVID-19 pandemic, including football in which SUNY Morrisville is an affiliate member.
![SUNY Morrisville's Return-to-Campus Plan](/sites/default/files/styles/giant_square_650_x_650_/public/news/promotional-images/Fall%202020%20Update-3.png?h=57024e64&itok=4ZmgA60r)
Jul 07, 2020
MORRISVILLE, N.Y. — SUNY Morrisville has announced its plan to reopen campus this fall, after receiving approval from SUNY and meeting New York State Department of Health’s Reopening New York Higher Education Guidelines. Plans are subject to change due to new information, guidance and/or direction received from the State of New York and the Governor’s Office.
Jun 29, 2020
In the midst of so much upheaval, there is a great theme of progress.
Jun 26, 2020
MORRISVILLE, N.Y. — Six SUNY Morrisville faculty and staff members were recently honored for their dedication and contributions to students, the campus and their community.
![Jamie Cyr](/sites/default/files/styles/giant_square_650_x_650_/public/news/promotional-images/Jamie%20Cyr_0.jpg?h=7d66a0c3&itok=S_rV5jY8)
Jun 16, 2020
MORRISVILLE, N.Y. — Jamie Cyr, of Chittenango, is the new chief financial officer at SUNY Morrisville, beginning July 1.
Cyr comes to SUNY Morrisville with extensive experience in financial planning and forecasting and leading complex auxiliary services organizations in hospitality and higher education industries.
Jun 12, 2020
MORRISVILLE, N.Y. — SUNY Morrisville has canceled its annual Fall Yearling Sale planned for Sunday, Sept. 20 at the college’s Nancy Sears Stowell Arena on Swamp Road in the town of Smithfield.
Jun 01, 2020
The events of the last several days in Minneapolis, Louisville, Atlanta and a growing number of cities across the country, all in the midst of a global pandemic, have once again laid bare the gross iniquities of our current systems. We have lost George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery. They are not the first or the only ones. There is too much suffering and destruction. We must change.
![Dick McGuire](/sites/default/files/styles/giant_square_650_x_650_/public/news/promotional-images/Dick-McGuire.jpg?h=aaa0c74c&itok=jMVR7Ay2)
May 22, 2020
At 97 years old, Richard “Dick” McGuire ’42 acts as a living historian.
He’s physically spry enough to trudge around in a half foot of snow serving as a tour guide for his 12 museums on his lifelong home of Penope Farms in the rural town of Jackson, N.Y. And he is mentally sharp enough to recollect specific use of 19th and 20th century farm equipment that was critical to the time for food production in America.
![Joe Nassimos and his granddaughter, Brooke Nassimos ’18](/sites/default/files/styles/giant_square_650_x_650_/public/news/promotional-images/joe.jpg?h=6c83441f&itok=UYyqaGhu)
May 22, 2020
A supportive professor who infallibly made himself available to his students, even long after they graduated; A hard-working dean always at the center of the action — that is how colleagues and students are remembering faculty emeritus Joseph Nassimos.
![Shirley Crawford](/sites/default/files/styles/giant_square_650_x_650_/public/news/promotional-images/Cover-wall.jpg?h=6c83441f&itok=8GosOVMM)
May 22, 2020
A beacon for generations, no end in sight for professor Shirley Crawford, SUNY Morrisville’s longest-standing faculty member
Social science professor Norman Dann, Ph.D., recalls very clearly the day he returned to his office on the SUNY Morrisville campus to find a young faculty member, in her first days on campus, waiting outside his door.
May 22, 2020
NORWICH, N.Y. — SUNY Morrisville’s Norwich Campus will celebrate its graduates during a drive-thru ceremony on Wednesday, May 27, from 1-2 p.m., in the campus parking lot on Conkey Ave.
Faculty and staff will be in full regalia, joined by bagpipers amid other pomp and circumstance.
![Angela Marriott, right, poses with Hope Solo, former United States Women’s National Team (soccer) goalkeeper.](/sites/default/files/styles/giant_square_650_x_650_/public/news/promotional-images/Marriott-soccer.jpg?h=6c83441f&itok=mh_PWBGY)
May 22, 2020
For Angela Marriott ’17, it was a career-defining moment.
In the summer of 2015, she observed the daily work of police officers during a ride-along in her hometown of Peekskill, New York. Seeing firsthand how a female officer deftly handled the challenges of the job cemented her desire to pursue a career in law enforcement.
“The way she was connected and interacted with people and carried herself as a woman in law enforcement is who I aspired to be,” Marriott said.
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May 22, 2020
Sheneya Wilson ’13 commanded the room. Wilson, a Ph.D. student, Forbes 30 Under 30 Scholar, author and business owner, visited campus to deliver the keynote lecture for Entrepreneurs’ Day, held February 27.
![Julio Torres Santana](/sites/default/files/styles/giant_square_650_x_650_/public/news/promotional-images/AP_0577.jpg?h=6c83441f&itok=xcFoz6qy)
May 22, 2020
Julio Torres Santana ’07 didn’t speak English when he arrived in New York City as a teenager.
No one in his family had ever graduated from college, and his childhood in the Dominican Republic was marked with poverty and hardship.
But his drive to succeed and passion for architecture pushed him to complete an associate degree at SUNY Morrisville and become the school’s first architectural studies student to be accepted into the bachelor’s degree program at Cornell University.