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The True Grit statue was unveiled in 1987. The sculptor was an alumna -- Paulette Raye '87, philosop...
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The first students at UMBC were 750 pioneers who arrived on September 19, 1966 and found three acade...
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John Dorsey was named as UMBC's third president (a title then-known as "chancellor") in 19...
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Do you remember when campus looked like this? There's a lot more of it to walk around now, needless ...
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The silo on UMBC Boulevard suggests a connection between the university and farming. What was that p...
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Calvin B. Lee was selected as UMBC's new president -- a position then known as "Chancellor"...
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Midnight Classes on Gay Street The class is huddled together; early May still has a chill. We’re ...
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UMBC has always been looking to the future, and our archive of master plans and documents is proof p...
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Did you ever take a class with chemistry professor Robert F. Steiner?
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UMBC President Michael Hooker, engineering chair Bino Koh, and computer science chair Samuel Lomonac...
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For a lot of UMBC students in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, the Albin O. Kuhn Library never had a towe...
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Our library, towers and all!
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In 1981, rumors that the State Board of Higher Education was planning to close UMBC and turn the cam...
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What is the oldest standing building on campus? —Sara Shannon ’05, social work When the Hillcres...
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A dive into the archives of The Retriever Weekly doesn't just excavate the history of UMBC, but it a...
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In 1965, UMBC moved from a plan to a reality. Albin O. Kuhn was named as vice president of the so-ca...
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Why was the Hillcrest Building torn down? What was the history behind this structure? —Perry Alexa...
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As an Honors University in Maryland, UMBC has a reputation as a school that takes academics serious...
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Parking and traffic have always been on the front burner at UMBC -- especially when the campus was a...
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One of the most notable protests in UMBC history occurred in spring 1970, when students sat in at va...
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The Terrace Apartments opened on campus in 1981 -- representing an expansion of the residential life...
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We've got some pretty interesting stuff buried in our archives, and in honor of the 50th, we're dust...
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UMBC's reputation as a university that makes important contributions to environmental studies in the...
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Why was the Conservation and Environmental Research Area (CERA) and its trail created? —Delana Gre...
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UMBC's dormitories had numbers instead of names until 1978, when resident students chose Maryland Wa...
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When did UMBC become a national college chess powerhouse? —Valerie Kilgallon ’87, English Accord...
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Do you remember when Reggie Truitt '89 played for the Retrievers?
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The Chesapeake Bay Retriever was selected as the university mascot in founding years of the universi...
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One of the most notable theatrical movements in UMBC history was Shakespeare on Wheels -- a travelin...
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Who was the most famous performer or group to play a concert at UMBC? —Eric Messner ’01 UMBC has...
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The very first cohort of UMBC's groundbreaking Meyerhoff Scholars Program gathered in 1988. The init...
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What was the first computer on campus? —Matt Basch ’08, M.S. ’10 At UMBC, computer science had...
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How did it come to be that UMBC develop a class schedule with a “free hour” in the middle of the...
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Why does UMBC not have a football team? Did the university ever consider having one? —Lisa Price ...
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"Greek" was the word at UMBC in 1983 -- as this advertisement for a session on "The N...
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From the earliest days of UMBC, finding one's place didn't just mean growing as a student and a pers...
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The roots of today's UMBC's Women's Center run deep in the university's history, as this headline fr...
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UMBC 1970s
Some photos from UMBC alumna Barbara Kupetzky
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