Free Hour, otherwise known as the reason for all the long lines in the Commons between noon and 1 on...

John Dorsey was named as UMBC's third president (a title then-known as "chancellor") in 19...

UMBC's growth as a university hit a milestone in the 2014 Fall Semester: The school finally hit the ...

Calvin B. Lee was selected as UMBC's new president -- a position then known as "Chancellor"...

UMBC has always been looking to the future, and our archive of master plans and documents is proof p...

In 2013, UMBC women’s soccer team capped a stunning reversal from last place in the conference to ...

For a lot of UMBC students in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, the Albin O. Kuhn Library never had a towe...

Chess has been an integral part of the UMBC story, and one of the greatest teams in university histo...

A dive into the archives of The Retriever Weekly doesn't just excavate the history of UMBC, but it a...

Parking and traffic have always been on the front burner at UMBC -- especially when the campus was a...

I'm a graduate of an earlier time, the first UMBC graduating class (1970). A degree in Mathematics g...

One of the most notable protests in UMBC history occurred in spring 1970, when students sat in at va...

UMBC's reputation as a university that makes important contributions to environmental studies in the...

UMBC's dormitories had numbers instead of names until 1978, when resident students chose Maryland Wa...

The class of 1970 gave a unique gift to UMBC upon their graduation: a $13,000 emergency student loan...

This is the graduation ceremony in 1970. This is the first class that would have attended all four y...

What was the first computer on campus? —Matt Basch ’08, M.S. ’10 At UMBC, computer science had...

How did it come to be that UMBC develop a class schedule with a “free hour” in the middle of the...

Why does UMBC not have a football team? Did the university ever consider having one? —Lisa Price ...

The roots of today's UMBC's Women's Center run deep in the university's history, as this headline fr...