The SMCC Beacon

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

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

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

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

By Ryan Plouffe Is your computer working slower than it should? Try using a free program called CCleaner also known as Crap Cleaner. There are two editions that an individual can choose, one being the edition that can be costly, and the other edition being free which tends to work just as well as the… Read more