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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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