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

Were you at Quadmania 1998? You'll certainly remember seeing M. Doughty and his band Soul Coughing a...

UMBC's 40th anniversary in 2006 had fireworks and parties, but one of its best remembered moments wa...

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...

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 ...

Group photo of UMBC Athletic Bands

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

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

Athletics Band Directors Jari Villanueva and Matt Basch.

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

Chess has been an integral part of the UMBC story, and one of the greatest teams in university histo...

For a young university, traditions are important. Since 2005, UMBC's Homecoming Bonfire has been a p...

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

One of the landmark moments in making UMBC a greener campus came in 2007, when UMBC President Freema...

Why was the Hillcrest Building torn down? What was the history behind this structure? —Perry Alexa...

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.

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

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...

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

UMBC has always looked to the future -- and the founding of the Erickson School of Aging Studies in ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

In the fall of 2003, Kevin Yang ’07 computer science and financial economics and Katelyn Niu ’05...

UMBC Mascots: True and Trudy Grit. October 2007

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