Academics
Beacon College Professor and Student Return from Research Trip to Nepal
March 4, 2022
They hiked the jungles of Nepal and went on safari, where they saw a tiger, a jackal, a rhino, and multitudes of other species.
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Chandler's Retirement
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All I Need to Get By: Cupid’s Aim Proves Straight at Beacon College
February 3, 2022
By Richard Burnett Through the years, many Beacon College students have found love in all the right places.
Alumni News
Experiences at Beacon Digitized Successful Life in the ‘Real World’ for Graff
January 7, 2022
From his first digital logo years ago as a teen to his polished portfolio today as an accomplished graphic designer, Dan Graff has parlayed his talent and education into a career brimming with potential.
Beacon News
Six-figure Fogg Gift Makes Beacon College a Safer Place to Grow
January 7, 2022
Continuing its transformational generosity, The Edward C.
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Beacon Community Helps Educate Grade School Students on Diversity, Inclusion
January 7, 2022
With diversity, equity, and inclusion at once becoming buzzwords and calls-to-action in the corporate and workaday world, Beacon College students and faculty continued the custom of communicating locally the value of neurodiversity by visiting Tavares Middle School last month for its annual disability Awareness Day.
Alumni News
For Myers, Early Silence Transformed Into Golden Words of Thanks in New Memoir
December 2, 2021
He spent the first years of his childhood in silence, as doctors and his parents began to think he might never speak.
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Partlow Helps Local Seniors Wrap Themselves in Some Holiday Love
December 1, 2021
Like elves in Santa’s workshop, Remy Partlow and Nancy LaPoint have spent months creating gifts for some of the neediest folks in Lake County.
Arts
Bellamy’s Statutes Stand Out in Recent Exhibit Meant to Reduce Art Buyer’s ‘Visual Tension’
December 1, 2021
Orlando interior designer José J. Cabrera helped support regional artists by mounting and sponsoring Visual Tension: Artspace 2021, an exhibition staged in November at Mills Gallery in Orlando.
Alumni News
Alumnus Brown Takes Unconventional Trek From Rural Hills To High-Tech Hub
November 30, 2021
From a small country house in the North Carolina hills to a high-rise in one of America’s technology hubs, Xander Brown’s trek in life has been anything but conventional.
Beacon News
How to Prepare For Online Success After The Thanksgiving Break
November 10, 2021
To minimize the potential spread of COVID-19, Beacon College students will complete the fall semester exclusively online after a well-deserved Thanksgiving break.
Alumni News
Beacon Student Turned Sales Dynamo Earns Her Props In The Work World
October 31, 2021
That legendary snack food — its peanuts, popcorn, and caramel coating immortalized in the baseball anthem, “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” — touts a trademarked slogan that affirms that “when you’re really good they call you crackerjack.
Beacon News
Elephant Research Will Take Beacon Students and Professor to Nepal
October 28, 2021
When Meghan Woerner received an email from her anthrozoology instructor, Dr.
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