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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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John Dorsey was named as UMBC's third president (a title then-known as "chancellor") in 19...
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Patti Katowski '81, health science and policy and sociology, and Bob Pfeiff '82, economics, are a cl...
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When I was on my epic college search, my sister told me she knew the perfect one for me - UMBC. I vi...
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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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In 1981, rumors that the State Board of Higher Education was planning to close UMBC and turn the cam...
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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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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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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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Why was the Conservation and Environmental Research Area (CERA) and its trail created? —Delana Gre...
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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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The very first cohort of UMBC's groundbreaking Meyerhoff Scholars Program gathered in 1988. The init...
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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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