UMBC's growth as a university hit a milestone in the 2014 Fall Semester: The school finally hit the ...

When I first visited UMBC on Just for Juniors day in 2009, months before I started applying to schoo...

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...

On October 9, 2015, alumni volunteers and donors joined with UMBC President Freeman A. Hrabowski, II...

Athletics Band Directors Jari Villanueva and Matt Basch.

Since Commencement coincides with Throwback Thursday, here I am at mine back in 2013! I was really e...

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

Life often defines the fruit of our destination with the seeds planted by our journey. It is life th...

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

Giving makes a difference at UMBC. In 2011, the university successfully concluded its "Exceptio...

The first day of classes is here! Here I am on what I believe was mine, six years ago today. I was r...

It's 2016 -- UMBC's 50th Anniversary. We've dedicated this year to telling stories about UMBC's Grit...

We've had a busy weekend moving students into their dorms, and we can't wait for the new school year...

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.

One somewhat official tradition we had during my time here was the Gender and Women's Studies Depart...

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

During my final year at UMBC, I worked with the Student Events Board as a Design and Marketing Direc...

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?

UMBC's commitment to innovation in pedagogy took a leap forward in 2010 with the debut of a new init...

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 ...

UMBC was well represented at our Wedding in September 2013 in Frederick, MD. In fact, there are 7 UM...

Check out this 2013 interview with Michele Wolff, director of the Shriver Center, about the Center's...

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 ...

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, ...

2012 was a watershed moment for the arts and humanities at UMBC when the first phase of the universi...

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