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SMCC Hoops Highlights: Vermont Tech Comes to Town
By Beacon Staff Women and Men’s basketball teams opened up the YSCC conference play this past Saturday afternoon when the Knights from Vermont Tech visited Hub gymnasium. The Lady Seawolves entered conference play with a 2-3 record while the men sported a healthy 4-1 record with their sole lose coming at the hands of Bridgton… Read more
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SMCC Nursing Club in Action; Stopping Flu In its Tracks
By Jessica Cunningham On Tuesday, September 9th, the lobby of the Health Science Building was a buzz as the Nursing Club hosted the 2nd Annual SMCC Flu Vaccination Clinic. The Clinic was staffed by club members, which include current nursing students as well as those interested in the nursing profession from the South Portland, Brunswick,… Read more
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Americans’ Obsession with the Ebola Outbreak: An Attempt to Allay Fears
By Richard Bigega When I was a little lad, Ebola was a few miles from home, just across the border in Kabare, one of the largest slums in Uganda. This suburb in southern Uganda, a country in East Africa, had several cases of Ebola, but at the time, the disease never crossed the border to… Read more
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Your Brain on Exercise: The Wrap Up
By Jason Glynn This is the last installment of my summer experience working in a neuroscience lab at the University of New England under a Maine-INBRE (IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence) Fellowship. It’s been awhile, so here’s a brief synopsis of my experiment. I looked into how the perception of pain is handled in… Read more
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Sailboats Beached
By The Beacon Staff After a fall that has been relatively quiet, weather wise that is, a Nor-easter visited the coast of Maine over the course of a few days, October 22nd to the 24th. Sometime before 1:30pm Thursday the 23rd, two sailboats were torn from their moorings, or broke free from docks and were… Read more
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