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.

Cristina Arrigoni Martelli

Cristina Arrigoni Martelli received her PhD in environmental history and medieval history from York University, Toronto in 2015, and her MA from the University of Maine History Department in 2007. She is particularly interested in human animal relationships, with a particular focus on hunting, material culture, and in how pre-modern humans used and thought of their natural resources. She has recently published on the conservation strategies of late medieval Italians pertaining to game animals as well as on falconry and on non-aristocratic commercial bird hunts, again for medieval Italy. She is currently at work on an essay on the training of medieval European hunting dogs and one on sixteenth century Pope Leo X’s master of the hunt, Domenico Boccamazza. Cristina has taught extensively at the University of Maine, Orono, and the University of Maine, Machias. Of particular mention, HTY 321 World Environmental History, HTY 291 Disease in History, HTY 320 Hunting in Maine, and European History from the beginnings of Rome through the Reformation (HTY 402-HTY 405).