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

UMBC has always been looking to the future, and our archive of master plans and documents is proof p...

For a lot of UMBC students in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, the Albin O. Kuhn Library never had a towe...

Parking and traffic have always been on the front burner at UMBC -- especially when the campus was a...

A dive into the archives of The Retriever Weekly doesn't just excavate the history of UMBC, but it a...

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...

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 ...

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

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

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

We've got some pretty interesting stuff buried in our archives, and in honor of the 50th, we're dust...

Do you remember when campus looked like this? There's a lot more of it to walk around now, needless ...