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

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...

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

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

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