John Dorsey was named as UMBC's third president (a title then-known as "chancellor") in 19...

Calvin B. Lee was selected as UMBC's new president -- a position then known as "Chancellor"...

UMBC's Engineering Building was opened in 1992 -- the same year that UMBC created a College of Engin...

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

Undergraduate research and creative achievement has always been a hallmark at UMBC. In 1996, the uni...

A production by UMBC's Theatre Department of five plays by Irish Playwright Samuel Beckett appeared ...

UMBC President Michael Hooker, engineering chair Bino Koh, and computer science chair Samuel Lomonac...

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

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

As an Honors University in Maryland, UMBC has a reputation as a school that takes academics serious...

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

After years of planning and conflicts with faculty and local residents, UMBC's research park (bwtech...

One of the most notable protests in UMBC history occurred in spring 1970, when students sat in at va...

Darielle and Earl Linehan (center) have played in immense role in the growth of UMBC as a hub for th...

Do you remember these dancers?

UMBC's reputation as a university that makes important contributions to environmental studies in the...

UMBC's dormitories had numbers instead of names until 1978, when resident students chose Maryland Wa...

The Chesapeake Bay Retriever was selected as the university mascot in founding years of the universi...

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

One of the most notable theatrical movements in UMBC history was Shakespeare on Wheels -- a travelin...

The very first cohort of UMBC's groundbreaking Meyerhoff Scholars Program gathered in 1988. The init...

What was the first computer on campus? —Matt Basch ’08, M.S. ’10 At UMBC, computer science had...

How did it come to be that UMBC develop a class schedule with a “free hour” in the middle of the...

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

Why does UMBC not have a football team? Did the university ever consider having one? —Lisa Price ...

Do you remember Dr. Ramachandra "Ram" Hosmane?

UMBC's Physics building made its debut on campus in 1999, becoming a center for research at the univ...

Professor of chemistry and biochemistry Mike Summers (left) is one of the STEM pioneers who have bui...

The roots of today's UMBC's Women's Center run deep in the university's history, as this headline fr...