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1966 was a year of firsts for UMBC. The university opened its doors and on its first day of classes,...
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Undergraduate research and creative achievement has always been a hallmark at UMBC. In 1996, the uni...
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UMBC’s President Freeman A. Hrabowski, III has been UMBC’s leader for more than two decades, but...
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UMBC Athletics hit peak Retriever Fever in the 2007-2008 season, when the men's basketball team stor...
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UMBC Athletics history has few stories of Grit and Greatness that are more impressive than the 2013 ...
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2008 was finally the moment when UMBC’s men’s basketball team got to the "Big Dance" -...
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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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UMBC Retrievers Athletics found a new home in 2003 by joining the America East conference. It has be...
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UMBC's Physics building made its debut on campus in 1999, becoming a center for research at the univ...
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After years of planning and conflicts with faculty and local residents, UMBC's research park (bwtech...
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Darielle and Earl Linehan (center) have played in immense role in the growth of UMBC as a hub for th...
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Professor of chemistry and biochemistry Mike Summers (left) is one of the STEM pioneers who have bui...
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Kathy Zerrlaut, who coached volleyball and lacrosse at UMBC for 41 years and developed the program a...
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1980: UMBC men’s lacrosse team wins the university’s only national championship, beating Adelphi...
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Freeman A. Hrabowski, III was named as UMBC's president in 1993. In his installation address, he sta...
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UMBC's Engineering Building was opened in 1992 -- the same year that UMBC created a College of Engin...
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UMBC's Women's Center was founded in 1991 -- and it has been providing essential services to the cam...
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Why was the Conservation and Environmental Research Area (CERA) and its trail created? —Delana Gre...
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When did UMBC become a national college chess powerhouse? —Valerie Kilgallon ’87, English Accord...
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It's no small feat to narrow down 50 years of athletics history to some of our most iconic moments, ...
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Throughout the last 50 years, our athletes have done some amazing things. One note-worthy moment too...
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As a track and field standout at UMBC, Dave Bobb '97 garnered more individual honors than any other ...
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In 2002, men’s tennis standout Oscar Lopez ’00, and M.S. ’02, mechanical engineering, became t...
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In another moment of victory for UMBC athletics, women’s softball squad beats Liberty, 7-1, in the...
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A proud moment for UMBC athletics came when women’s track and field phenom Cleopatra Borel ’02, ...
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As a standout player in women’s lacrosse who also excelled in the classroom, Kelly Fiorani Marriot...
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In 2004, the UMBC men’s swimming made Retrievers proud when the team took home its first America E...
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In 2007, UMBC women’s basketball team earned its first NCAA tournament bid. Where you there to wat...
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The sparkplug for the UMBC men’s basketball team’s memorable run to the NCAA tournament in 2008,...
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In 2013, UMBC women’s soccer team capped a stunning reversal from last place in the conference to ...
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UMBC President Michael Hooker, engineering chair Bino Koh, and computer science chair Samuel Lomonac...
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UMBC Mascots: True and Trudy Grit. October 2007
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Athletics Band Directors Jari Villanueva and Matt Basch.
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Seniors at my last game before moving to Hawaii.
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UMBC Athletic Bands student directors at the White House!
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At a tournament several years before moving to Hawaii.
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Group photo of UMBC Athletic Bands
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My first year in the Down and Dirty Dawg Band. 2004
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Do you remember when Reggie Truitt '89 played for the Retrievers?
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Do you remember these dancers?
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Were you ever involved in a theatre production with Xerxes Mehta?
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As UMBC celebrates its 50th, the Imaging Research Center (IRC) will begin celebrating its 30th. The...
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I came to UMBC as an International Student. It was quite hard to think of it then and even now that ...
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At UMBC I was fortunate enough to be a part of the Men's Soccer Team. In 2010, this extraordinary gr...
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Grit & Glory

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