For a young university, traditions are important. Since 2005, UMBC's Homecoming Bonfire has been a p...

The silo on UMBC Boulevard suggests a connection between the university and farming. What was that p...

Why was the Hillcrest Building torn down? What was the history behind this structure? —Perry Alexa...

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

2008 was finally the moment when UMBC’s men’s basketball team got to the "Big Dance" -...

Who was the most famous performer or group to play a concert at UMBC? —Eric Messner ’01 UMBC has...

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

One of the landmark moments in making UMBC a greener campus came in 2007, when UMBC President Freema...

UMBC's 40th anniversary in 2006 had fireworks and parties, but one of its best remembered moments wa...

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

UMBC Retrievers Athletics found a new home in 2003 by joining the America East conference. It has be...

Were you at Quadmania 1998? You'll certainly remember seeing M. Doughty and his band Soul Coughing a...

In 2002, men’s tennis standout Oscar Lopez ’00, and M.S. ’02, mechanical engineering, became t...

As a standout player in women’s lacrosse who also excelled in the classroom, Kelly Fiorani Marriot...

In 2004, the UMBC men’s swimming made Retrievers proud when the team took home its first America E...

The sparkplug for the UMBC men’s basketball team’s memorable run to the NCAA tournament in 2008,...

As "young alum" for just a few more years, my son was rooting for me at the annual Homecom...