Inorganic

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.

Inorganic Chemistry Research

Inorganic chemistry encompasses the entire periodic table with research from catalysis to alternative energy and from medicines to materials. Since inorganics are key today to environmental, energy, and nanomaterial research and the chemical industry, inorganic chemists find themselves at the forefront of research to identify the relationship between electronic structure and function: the fundamental issue of understanding properties at the molecular level.

UMaine inorganic chemists are designing ways to detect mercury, copper and other contaminants in the environment, studying the bioinorganic chemistry of disulfides and thiolates with metals such as zinc and gold, investigating alternative energy, synthesizing liquid crystalline metal compounds, and probing the photophysical properties of gold and silver dicyanide compounds doped with alkali and lanthanide metals. These research projects span a wide array of instrumental techniques, calculations, and synthesis. We invite you to learn more about these projects from the faculty pages below.

	Contact Information	Research
Alice E. Bruce	152 Aubert Hall (207) 581-1168 abruce@maine.edu	Inorganic Biological Environmental Chem Ed
Mitchell Bruce	277 Aubert Hall (207) 581-1190 mbruce@maine.edu	Inorganic Biological Environmental Alt. Energy Chem Ed
Howard H. Patterson	377 Aubert Hall (207)-581-1178 howardp@maine.edu	Inorganic Environmental