$7.5M grant awarded for Portland graduate center, media report

UMaine Alert

Posted: April 19, 2024 - 1:32 PM

At approximately 9:24 a.m. on Friday, April 19, a student was struck by a university vehicle on Long Road at the University of Maine campus in Orono.

Emergency services responded promptly to the scene and the student has been transported to a local hospital. The student’s family has been informed.

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 or you may call the Dean of Students Office at 207-581-1406.

An investigation is underway and more details will be released when they become available. Our thoughts are with the student and their family.

Long Road has been cleared and is now accessible. Any witnesses to the incident are encouraged to contact Lieutenant Noel Santiago at noel.santiago@maine.edu.

July 19, 2017 UMaine in the News

The Portland Press Herald, Maine Public, Bangor Daily News, Mainebiz, WVOM Voice of Maine, Philanthropy News Digest (PND), WCSH (Channel 6 in Portland), WABI (Channel 5) and WGME (Channel 13 in Portland) reported the Harold Alfond Foundation is giving a $7.5 million challenge grant to the University of Maine System for its new Portland-based graduate center. The center plans to house the University of Maine School of Law, a new MBA program that replaces separate graduate business programs operating at USM and UMaine, and the graduate programs in public health, as well as public policy and management, which now operate at the Muskie School of Public Service at USM. It also will house the Cutler Institute for Health and Policy, which is the research arm of USM, the Press Herald reported. “This is a momentous day. This initiative has the potential to benefit the entire state,” said UMaine President Susan J. Hunter. “It isn’t easy to be working toward a future that is not in sharp focus. But it is absolutely the right thing to do.”