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

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

UMBC's Engineering Building was opened in 1992 -- the same year that UMBC created a College of Engin...

"One of the earliest pieces of public art remaining on campus is Double Helix, a work in Tennes...

Undergraduate research and creative achievement has always been a hallmark at UMBC. In 1996, the uni...

A production by UMBC's Theatre Department of five plays by Irish Playwright Samuel Beckett appeared ...

Were you ever involved in a theatre production with Xerxes Mehta?

UMBC President Michael Hooker, engineering chair Bino Koh, and computer science chair Samuel Lomonac...

1979: The Retriever men’s basketball squad – ranked number six in the nation – advances to the...

As an Honors University in Maryland, UMBC has a reputation as a school that takes academics serious...

After years of planning and conflicts with faculty and local residents, UMBC's research park (bwtech...

Darielle and Earl Linehan (center) have played in immense role in the growth of UMBC as a hub for th...

Did you see this theatre production?

Do you remember these dancers?

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...

Did you see this play?

Do you recognize these actors or the play they're in?

Steve Zerhusen '78, UMBC's standout men's soccer goalkeeper who would go on to play for the Fort Lau...

The Chesapeake Bay Retriever was selected as the university mascot in founding years of the universi...

UMBC's commitment to innovation in pedagogy took a leap forward in 2010 with the debut of a new init...

One of the most notable theatrical movements in UMBC history was Shakespeare on Wheels -- a travelin...

The very first cohort of UMBC's groundbreaking Meyerhoff Scholars Program gathered in 1988. The init...

UMBC has always looked to the future -- and the founding of the Erickson School of Aging Studies in ...

Do you remember Dr. Ramachandra "Ram" Hosmane?

Do you recognize these actors from the 1994 production of Hamlet?

UMBC's Physics building made its debut on campus in 1999, becoming a center for research at the univ...

Professor of chemistry and biochemistry Mike Summers (left) is one of the STEM pioneers who have bui...

2012 was a watershed moment for the arts and humanities at UMBC when the first phase of the universi...