By The Beacon Editorial Staff On April 20, news circulated across the Southern Maine Community College’s all-employees email informing the community that Jesse Mase, a beloved Mathematics & Physics faculty member had […]
SMCC Mourns Loss of Beloved Physics Professor Jesse Mase
SMCC Filmmakers Discuss Maine Mayhem Ahead of Premiere
By Daniele Amandolini For the past nine years, students in the Communications & New Media department have had the chance to write and direct their own movies — and show them in […]
A Mile in Our Shoes, Part 3 [updated]
The post has been updated to include Xuux’s interview. By Dana Abdhulay Dee What are the most significant factors that contributed to where you are today as a person? My family. […]
College Courses That Every SMCC Student Should Take
By Mohammed Omane College can be a fun and enjoyable experience, but sometimes a little recommendation can save you a semester of stress or help you gain the most for your money. […]
Kindness Korner
By The Kindness Mama Another two weeks have passed and still nothing has come into my inbox about any random acts of kindness. Now we are into our last few weeks of […]
Business Club gives back
By The Business Club On Friday, April 20, members of SMCC’s Business Club volunteered their time to help build a house in Scarborough for Habitat for Humanity. Habitat for Humanity develops “partnership […]
Chasing the Dead in Ireland
By Randall Delaware My grandmother, who lived in Derry, New Hampshire, asked me, I think, in late summer of 1984, after I returned from a summer in Europe, “Did you visit Ireland?” […]
Understanding DRM
By Adam Barber As we very rapidly transition into a digital world, the content that we consume — our entertainment — has gone from a physical copy you can hold to something […]
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