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The silo on UMBC Boulevard suggests a connection between the university and farming. What was that p...
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What’s the real story behind True Grit? Why was a Chesapeake Bay retriever chosen as the school’...
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"One of the key elements of UMBC’s history as a campus has been the institution’s search fo...
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This bronze statue of True Grit was commissioned in in the late 1980s by then-President Michael Hook...
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"One of the earliest pieces of public art remaining on campus is Double Helix, a work in Tennes...
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"One of the most poignant pieces of public art on campus is Mnemonic by artist Marc O’Carroll...
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"Some of UMBC’s most notable public art from its earliest days has vanished from view. Today,...
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UMBC won "medium-sized" at last year's Kinetic Sculpture Race in Baltimore, taking home th...
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Does UMBC have secret underground tunnels? Why? —Bennett Moe ’88 Mention the word “tunnels” ...
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Is it true that you have to run around the Loop Road to get rid of the calories in one donut? I hear...
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Who was the most famous performer or group to play a concert at UMBC? —Eric Messner ’01 UMBC has...
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Why does UMBC not have a football team? Did the university ever consider having one? —Lisa Price ...
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What was the first computer on campus? —Matt Basch ’08, M.S. ’10 At UMBC, computer science had...
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The first students at UMBC were 750 pioneers who arrived on September 19, 1966 and found three acade...
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Why was the Conservation and Environmental Research Area (CERA) and its trail created? —Delana Gre...
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What is the oldest standing building on campus? —Sara Shannon ’05, social work When the Hillcres...
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How did it come to be that UMBC develop a class schedule with a “free hour” in the middle of the...
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When did UMBC become a national college chess powerhouse? —Valerie Kilgallon ’87, English Accord...
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It's no small feat to narrow down 50 years of athletics history to some of our most iconic moments, ...
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Throughout the last 50 years, our athletes have done some amazing things. One note-worthy moment too...
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As a track and field standout at UMBC, Dave Bobb '97 garnered more individual honors than any other ...
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In 2002, men’s tennis standout Oscar Lopez ’00, and M.S. ’02, mechanical engineering, became t...
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In another moment of victory for UMBC athletics, women’s softball squad beats Liberty, 7-1, in the...
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A proud moment for UMBC athletics came when women’s track and field phenom Cleopatra Borel ’02, ...
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As a standout player in women’s lacrosse who also excelled in the classroom, Kelly Fiorani Marriot...
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In 2004, the UMBC men’s swimming made Retrievers proud when the team took home its first America E...
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In 2007, UMBC women’s basketball team earned its first NCAA tournament bid. Where you there to wat...
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The sparkplug for the UMBC men’s basketball team’s memorable run to the NCAA tournament in 2008,...
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In 2013, UMBC women’s soccer team capped a stunning reversal from last place in the conference to ...
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Space in Time
Take a look at some of the most iconic public artwork to grace our campus over the years.
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