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.

Haley Albano, Workshop Presenter

Haley Albano is a Ph.D. student and doctoral fellow focused in the ecological dimensions of nutritional anthropology, where she is situated in the interplay between environmental nutrition and cultural relationships with food. Her research examines the complexity of nutritional risk in Northern Maine and the Canadian borderlands, specifically focusing on the ecologies of metabolic stress. She comes into the program with a BA in Anthropology from Bridgewater State University, and an MS in Ethics and Public Policy from Suffolk University in Boston. She is broadly interested in the northern landscape, discourse and praxis change, and the communication of nutritional risk.

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Haley Albano, Workshop Presenter