The first students at UMBC were 750 pioneers who arrived on September 19, 1966 and found three acade...

UMBC won "medium-sized" at last year's Kinetic Sculpture Race in Baltimore, taking home th...

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

As UMBC celebrates its 50th, the Imaging Research Center (IRC) will begin celebrating its 30th. The...

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

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

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

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

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

In 2013, UMBC women’s soccer team capped a stunning reversal from last place in the conference to ...

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

Group photo of UMBC Athletic Bands

In 2007, UMBC women’s basketball team earned its first NCAA tournament bid. Where you there to wat...

UMBC Athletic Bands student directors at the White House!

1980: UMBC men’s lacrosse team wins the university’s only national championship, beating Adelphi...

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...

Athletics Band Directors Jari Villanueva and Matt Basch.

Is it true that you have to run around the Loop Road to get rid of the calories in one donut? I hear...

What’s the real story behind True Grit? Why was a Chesapeake Bay retriever chosen as the school’...

UMBC Athletics hit peak Retriever Fever in the 2007-2008 season, when the men's basketball team stor...

"Some of UMBC’s most notable public art from its earliest days has vanished from view. Today,...

In another moment of victory for UMBC athletics, women’s softball squad beats Liberty, 7-1, in the...

What is the oldest standing building on campus? —Sara Shannon ’05, social work When the Hillcres...

UMBC’s President Freeman A. Hrabowski, III has been UMBC’s leader for more than two decades, but...

"One of the most poignant pieces of public art on campus is Mnemonic by artist Marc O’Carroll...

In 1965, UMBC moved from a plan to a reality. Albin O. Kuhn was named as vice president of the so-ca...

Does UMBC have secret underground tunnels? Why? —Bennett Moe ’88 Mention the word “tunnels” ...

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...

One of UMBC's most time-honored traditions is the April Fool's issue of The Retriever Weekly. From g...

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

At a tournament several years before moving to Hawaii.

Do you remember these dancers?

Why was the Conservation and Environmental Research Area (CERA) and its trail created? —Delana Gre...

"One of the key elements of UMBC’s history as a campus has been the institution’s search fo...

When did UMBC become a national college chess powerhouse? —Valerie Kilgallon ’87, English Accord...

Amy Young-Buckler '92, history, first became aware that her now-husband, John Buckler '93, ancient s...

At UMBC I was fortunate enough to be a part of the Men's Soccer Team. In 2010, this extraordinary gr...

This bronze statue of True Grit was commissioned in in the late 1980s by then-President Michael Hook...

A proud moment for UMBC athletics came when women’s track and field phenom Cleopatra Borel ’02, ...

Do you remember when Reggie Truitt '89 played for the Retrievers?

Kathy Zerrlaut, who coached volleyball and lacrosse at UMBC for 41 years and developed the program a...

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

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

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

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

Throughout the last 50 years, our athletes have done some amazing things. One note-worthy moment too...

As a track and field standout at UMBC, Dave Bobb '97 garnered more individual honors than any other ...

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

We found this photo in our archives from when Memorial Stadium still stood!

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

Were you there when Maryland State Comptroller Louis L Goldstein and Michael Hooker broke ground on ...

Seniors at my last game before moving to Hawaii.

UMBC Athletics history has few stories of Grit and Greatness that are more impressive than the 2013 ...

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...

Freeman A. Hrabowski, III was named as UMBC's president in 1993. In his installation address, he sta...

UMBC Mascots: True and Trudy Grit. October 2007

UMBC's Women's Center was founded in 1991 -- and it has been providing essential services to the cam...

It's no small feat to narrow down 50 years of athletics history to some of our most iconic moments, ...

My first year in the Down and Dirty Dawg Band. 2004