Dean Stewart Returns to Namesake Commons
A portrait of Dean John E. Stewart, University of Maine Dean of Men from 1951 – 1969, has been returned to its rightful place in the Commons building bearing his name.
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Fall 2023 Influential Art-Based Film Series
The IMRC Center is bringing back the Influential Art-Based Film Series after a successful debut during the Spring 2023 semester. This time, Graduate Assistants James LeBlanc and Samantha Grimwood, along with Research Engineer Sean Taylor, have curated a new list of can’t-miss, iconic films, free to view for anyone from UMaine and our surrounding communities. […]
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Building a Better Spacewalk
MERITS, a program of the Maine Space Grant Consortium (MSGC) supported by NASA and the National Science Foundation, brings high school juniors from all over Maine the opportunity to complete a six-week paid summer internship to study a science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) topic in a hands-on applied setting. Yarmouth High School student Colby […]
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Micro-Image Your Research
Student photomicrography celebrated in “Micro-Image Your Research” event The Electron Microscopy Lab, in conjunction with the Innovative Media Research and Commercialization Center, both members of the University of Maine’s Coordinated Operating Research Entities (CORE), invited student researchers to consider a new perspective on their specimens this semester. “Micro-Image Your Research” invited undergraduate and graduate students […]
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A Bug’s Eye View
Devin Rowe, PhD student in Ecology and Environmental Sciences, shared the results of his recent insect photogrammetry project, for which he built an insect scanning structure at the IMRC Center. “My brother-in-law gifted me a 3D printer. Being an entomologist, I started browsing for insect-related 3D prints and I found the scAnt 3D Insect Scanner […]
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Thomas Rod Company: A Community Tradition
Thomas Rod Company of Brewer, Maine, approached the IMRC Center with a request to use contemporary technology to support traditional techniques going back well over a century. The company creates hand-hewn Tonkin cane bamboo fishing rods, using practices not far removed from those used by F. E. Thomas when he founded the company in […]
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(Don’t) Break The Ice
IMRC Center fabrication technician Sean Taylor worked with School of Earth and Climate Sciences PhD candidate Hanna Brooks to create a solution to an ongoing problem for those that study ice core samples. Each core contains microscopic layers that tell researchers about the chronology of the ice and its geological surroundings from thousands of years […]
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Student Spotlight: “On a Mediterranean Tugboat”
Check out “On a Mediterranean Tugboat” by Phoenix Sanchez ’25. Phoenix spent many hours recording and processing the album at the IMRC Center over the last semester. Phoenix tells us: “When I found out that there were multiple professional recording studios that were free for student use, I couldn’t believe it, but I also couldn’t believe […]
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IMRC Center Influential Art Based Film Series
The Innovative Media Research and Commercialization (IMRC) Center welcomes a new eight-event series exhibiting a selection of the most influential and artistically diverse movies since the emergence of the movie camera. The curation of films spans 140 years of evolving genres, mediums, technologies, and cultures. Film categories (abstract, seminal, pop art, and documentary) have been […]
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Recording 3D printer sounds at IMRC Center
Mechanical Engineering Student Drew Browning carefully observes as a custom 3D printer creates a sample project in the acoustically controlled environment of the Audio Recording and Production Lab at the IMRC Center. As the motors and extruders whir and chirp to life, small measurement microphones capture the sounds of the device for later analysis using […]
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