American Historian Kazin to Speak at UMaine

UMaine Alert

Posted: April 19, 2024 - 1:32 PM

At approximately 9:24 a.m. on Friday, April 19, a University of Maine graduate student was struck by a university vehicle on Long Road at the University of Maine campus in Orono. The student reports that they are at a local hospital with minor injuries.

Emergency services, including the Orono Fire Department, University Volunteer Ambulance Corps, University of Maine Police Department, Orono Police Department and Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office responded to the scene.

The university vehicle involved in the incident was a Chevrolet Express van. It was being operated by a university employee.

Counseling services and support are available for students, faculty or staff who may have been affected. The Counseling Center can be reached at 207-581-1392 and the Dean of Students Office can be reached at 207-581-1406.

The scene has been cleared and Long Road is now accessible. An investigation is being conducted by the University of Maine Police Department with assistance from the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office Crash Reconstruction Unit. Any witnesses to the incident are encouraged to contact Lt. Noel Santiago at noel.santiago@maine.edu.

April 4, 2012 UMaine in the News

Georgetown University history professor and historian of American politics Michael Kazin will speak Tuesday, April 10 at the University of Maine about his latest book, “American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation.” Presented by the University of Maine Department of History and the Michiah Center, a nonprofit center for the humanities and social justice in New Gloucester, Kazin’s appearance is free and open to the public. His talk is from 3:15 p.m. to 5 p.m. in Hill Auditorium in Barrows Hall on the Orono campus. Kazin’s talk will take his audience from abolitionism and early feminism to the labor struggles of the industrial age, through the emergence of anarchists, socialists and communists, and to the new left in the 1960s and 1970s.

Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756