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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.

Year: 2007

Maine Students to Perform Research in NASA Zero Gravity Flight

Contact: Michael D. Mason (207) 581-2344; Tom Weber (207) 581-3777; Bob Caswell (207) 780-4200 ORONO — Now that NASA has cleared them for takeoff, student scientists from the University of Maine and the University of Southern Maine are eagerly preparing for the flight of their lives. And while the four students won’t actually be going […]

UMaine 2008 Camden Conference Class Focuses on Religion in World Affairs

Contact: Marlene Charron, (207) 581-4095, George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — The University of Maine is accepting registrations for a unique, interdisciplinary course designed around the annual Camden Conference in February, “Religion as a Force in World Affairs.” Students do not have to be admitted at the University of Maine to enroll in the course. The […]

Klimis-Zacas Elected Officer of International Trace Elements Society

Contact: Dorothy Klimis-Zacas, 581-3124 ORONO — Dorothy Klimis-Zacas, professor of clinical nutrition at UMaine, recently was elected treasurer of the International Society of Trace Element Research in the Human (ISTERH) at the society’s recent joint international conference in Crete, Greece. She will serve until 2010. Klimis-Zacas, a faculty member in the Department of Food Science […]

UMaine Professor Borns Receives Prestigious Award

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — The Maine State Society of Washington, D.C. has given retired University of Maine professor Harold Borns its 2007 “Big ‘M’ Award,” recognizing Borns’ “accomplishments and achievements in (his) profession, (and) for service to Maine and its citizens.” Borns, who retired from the UMaine faculty in 2005 after […]

Association Extension Professor Receives National Award

Contact: Joyce Kleffner, 207-667-8212 DOVER-FOXCROFT, Me. — Jane Conroy, a faculty member in the University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s Piscataquis County office, has received a national award. The National Extension Association for Family and Consumer Sciences (NEAFCS) gave Conroy its Continued Excellence Award at a fall conference in St. Paul, Minn. The organization recognized Conroy […]

Coral Reef Crisis Could Signal Threat to Maine Marine Life and Fisheries

Contact: Robert Steneck (207) 549-3062, cell (207) 557-4505Tom Weber (207) 581-3777 ORONO — A rise in the temperature and acidity of the oceans that threatens the existence of the world’s coral reef ecosystems could also have troubling implications for marine life and fishing industries as far away as Maine, a University of Maine researcher says. […]

UMaine Professor Set for NAACP Martin Luther King Birthday Keynote

Contact: Perry (NAACP) at 548-2081; Joe Carr (UMaine) at 581-3571 ORONO — A keynote address by University of Maine philosophy professor Douglas Allen will highlight a joint Greater Bangor Area NAACP/University of Maine Martin Luther King, Jr. breakfast celebration on Monday, January 21, 2008. The 8:30-10:30 a.m. event is scheduled for UMaine’s Buchanan Alumni House, […]

UMaine Page Farm and Home Museum Closing for Holidays

Contact: Patricia Henner, 581-4100 ORONO — The Page Farm and Home Museum will close over the holidays, Dec. 23-Jan. 2. The museum’s regular hours are Tuesday through Friday, 9 a.m. -4 p.m., and weekends, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., except for Mondays and holidays.

Engineering Students Tackle Heating Project to Save Energy, Cut Costs

Contact: Justin Poland (207) 581-2130; Tom Weber (207) 581-3777 ORONO–A group of University of Maine mechanical engineering students are working on a senior-class project that promises practical benefits not only to their own education but to the university and the environment as well. For their capstone project, the four students are designing a heat-recovery system […]

Gift Leads to UMaine Athletics Field Upgrades

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571; Laura Reed at (207) 581-3646 ORONO — A $1 million gift from University of Maine benefactors Phillip H. and Susan K. Morse, through the Boston Red Sox Foundation, will provide the catalyst for a significant upgrade of University of Maine outdoor athletic facility playing surfaces. Phillip Morse, an owner […]

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