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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.

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The Histories We Inherit: Annual Babcock Lecture

Concordia’s Reckoning With the Pasts of Its Founding Institutions A University of Maine alumnus, Professor Graham Carr is president and vice-chancellor of Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. A historian by training and a long-time leader in higher education in Canada, Carr returns to his alma mater to explore the role universities can and should play […]

CanAm Lecture: Dr. Jean-Christophe Cloutier, “Translated from the French”: Jack Kerouac, the Archive, and the Continenting of America

“Translated from the French”: Jack Kerouac, the Archive, and the Continenting of America Dr. Jean-Christophe Cloutier, University of Pennsylvania Presentation in English Please register before here!

POSTPONED Daniel Soucier, “Navigating Wilderness and Borderland”

This event has been postponed. We anticipate that it will be rescheduled during the Fall 2020 semester. Please join us for our final Spring 2020 graduate research presentation. History PhD […]

Carol Blasi, “The Case for Seigneurialism in l’Acadie”

Please join us for a graduate research presentation entitled “The Case for Seigneurialism in l’Acadie: A Legal Historical Approach to Land Tenure in Acadian Agricultural Settlements in the Seventeenth and […]

Upcoming CanAm Lecture: Don Wright, “National Symbols, Airport Kitsch, and Canadian History”

Professor Donald Wright of University of New Brunswick will present “National Symbols, Airport Kitsch, and Canadian History” at our upcoming Fall CanAm Lecture on Wednesday, November 8, 2017 at 12PM in the Coe Room, Memorial Union, University of Maine, Orono campus. This lecture is free and open to the public, and a boxed lunch is […]

CanAm Lecture Series: “National Symbols, Airport Kitsch, and Canadian History” with Don Wright

Professor Donald Wright of University of New Brunswick will present “National Symbols, Airport Kitsch, and Canadian History” at our upcoming Fall CanAm Lecture. To get updates about this event, join on Facebook! […]

Sean Mills, “Transnationalism, Race, and Quebec” (CanAm Lecture Series)

“In this paper I will explore new ways of thinking about Quebec and its connections to other societies and cultures, with a particular emphasis on debates about race and the […]