Noel Laureate Ostrom at UMaine for Oct. 21 Mitchell Lecture

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.

October 12, 2010 UMaine in the News

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571

Note: This event is free and open to the public, but tickets are required. Please call (207) 581-3244 to reserve tickets.

ORONO — Acclaimed scholar Elinor Ostrom will visit the University of Maine on Thursday Oct. 21 to present the university’s annual Sen. George J. Mitchell Lecture on Sustainability.

Ostrom, co-recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, will discuss “Unconventional Wisdom: Sustaining our Natural Resources in a Rapidly Changing World.” Her talk, hosted by UMaine’s Sen. George J. Mitchell Center, is scheduled for 1 p.m. in UMaine’s Wells Conference Center. Sen. Mitchell will attend the lecture and offer remarks, if his schedule permits.

Ostrom, a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 2001, is an expert on “common pool” or shared resources, which include resources such as fisheries, forests and grazing lands. She has studied interactions between humans and these natural resources, with an emphasis on strategies that promote long-term, sustainable yields.

Her work includes the development of “design principles” that underlie effective management of local, shared resources.

“The extraordinary work of Prof. Ostrom and her colleagues provides one of the best road maps we have for promoting economic and community development while protecting our natural resources,” says David Hart, director of UMaine’s Mitchell Center and leader of Maine’s Sustainability Solutions Initiative. “We are actively working to build upon her visionary work as we seek to create a brighter economic, social and environmental future for the people of Maine.”

Ostrom is a member of the faculty at both Indiana University and Arizona State University.