{"id":67422,"date":"2016-04-19T16:13:49","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T20:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=67422"},"modified":"2016-04-19T07:37:08","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T11:37:08","slug":"morrisville-state-college-students-receive-top-award-from-suny-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=67422","title":{"rendered":"Morrisville State College students receive top award from SUNY"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Cheyenne<\/a>
Cheyenne Beach poses with her SUNY Chancellor\u2019s Award for Student Excellence. From left, SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher, Beach and Morrisville State College President David Rogers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Morrisville State College students Cheyenne Beach, of Waterville, and Erin Marchefka, of Herkimer, have been honored with the SUNY Chancellor\u2019s Award for Student Excellence.<\/p>\n

The prestigious award is based on outstanding academic and career achievement, as well as service and leadership.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis award is our way of saying \u2018thank you\u2019 to stand-out SUNY students whose achievements reflect their own impressive hard work as well as the support of their families and friends, and SUNY\u2019s world-class faculty and staff,\u201d said SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher. \u201cThe students we honor with this year\u2019s award have excelled academically, become role models on campus, and established themselves as leaders in the community.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Erin<\/a>
Erin Marchefka, a dietetic technician-food service administration student, has excelled academically, being named to the Dean\u2019s and President\u2019s Lists.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Beach, a natural resources conservation student, has been an active member of the Morrisville Conservation Tri Society for three years, serving terms as president, treasurer, and organizing many community service activities and events, as well as coordinating trips in the NRC field.<\/p>\n

A work-study student and a teaching assistant for the Natural Resources Conservation Department, she also served on the Campus Tree Board.<\/p>\n

As a special class project, she worked on the Rogers Environmental Education Center Canada goose control project for three years; as a crew member, crew supervisor, and project coordinator.\u00a0 She also completed career-oriented internships with Headwaters Youth Conservation Corps, Canadarago Lake Improvement Association, and Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge.<\/p>\n

After she graduates from MSC in May, Beach will be working as a biological technician at the Audubon National Wildlife Refuge in North Dakota, where she will be monitoring the Piping Plover, an endangered bird.<\/p>\n

In addition to her dedication in the field, she received numerous accolades in the classroom, including a Presidential Scholarship to attend MSC. A member of the Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society, she is a two-time recipient of the Jeffrey Beach Scholarship for having the highest GPA in the NRC program, and also received the Floyd L. Beebe Memorial Award for academic and campus achievement. Beach is also completing a bachelor\u2019s degree in renewable resources.<\/p>\n

A 2012 graduate of Waterville High School, she is the daughter of Melissa Carey, of West Winfield.<\/p>\n

Marchefka, a dietetic technician-food service administration student, has excelled academically, being named to the Dean\u2019s and President\u2019s Lists. A non-traditional student, she juggles a full course load, a family, and work as a diet office clerk at Faxton St. Luke\u2019s Healthcare in New Hartford.\u00a0A portion of her career in the dietetic technician field has focused on reaching out to the community to help those facing adversity. S<\/strong>he participated in numerous campus events including National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week activities.<\/p>\n

Marchefka attended the Mohawk Regional Dietetic Association meeting, hosted at MSC, where she was a student speaker. She is a student member of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.<\/p>\n

A 2000 graduate of Albemarle High School, in Va., Marchefka and her daughter, Leana, live in Herkimer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Morrisville State College students Cheyenne Beach, of Waterville, and Erin Marchefka, of Herkimer, have been honored with the SUNY Chancellor\u2019s Award for Student Excellence. The prestigious award is based on outstanding academic and career achievement, as well as service and leadership. \u201cThis award is our way of saying \u2018thank you\u2019 to stand-out SUNY students whose […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-hxs","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Cheyenne-Beach.jpg?fit=2475%2C1649&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/67423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}