I value the time I spent at UMBC. I transferred to UMBC in the Fall of 2006 after completing my AA ...

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

UMBC won "medium-sized" at last year's Kinetic Sculpture Race in Baltimore, taking home th...

Although, UMBC was a great place for my husband and me to grow in our relationship, education, caree...

Welcome to Retriever Stories UMBC students, alumni, and staff have designed and programmed this uniq...

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

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...

"One of the earliest pieces of public art remaining on campus is Double Helix, a work in Tennes...

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.

Is it true that you have to run around the Loop Road to get rid of the calories in one donut? I hear...

What’s the real story behind True Grit? Why was a Chesapeake Bay retriever chosen as the school’...

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...

Your UMBC story is essential to celebrating our university's 50th anniversary!

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...

"Some of UMBC’s most notable public art from its earliest days has vanished from view. Today,...

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

1979: The Retriever men’s basketball squad – ranked number six in the nation – advances to the...

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

UMBC alumni and faculty greeted each other with beaming smiles and excited chatter at this year’s ...

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

"One of the most poignant pieces of public art on campus is Mnemonic by artist Marc O’Carroll...

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

Does UMBC have secret underground tunnels? Why? —Bennett Moe ’88 Mention the word “tunnels” ...

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.

Why was the Conservation and Environmental Research Area (CERA) and its trail created? —Delana Gre...

As an All-American guard at UMBC in the mid-to-late 1980s, Tammy McCarthy '87 was one of the univers...

"One of the key elements of UMBC’s history as a campus has been the institution’s search fo...

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

I met my wife Sena at UMBC and we got married in 2008. I'm glad I've been able to stay involved and ...

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

This bronze statue of True Grit was commissioned in in the late 1980s by then-President Michael Hook...

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?

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...

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

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

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 ...

Without a doubt, as I've transitioned through several roles here, UMBC has shaped my life the past a...

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 ...

It's a great night at UMBC's Black and Gold Lounge here at Light City.

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

UMBC changed my life in more ways than I probably even realize. It was an environment that nourished...

Seniors at my last game before moving to Hawaii.

Participating in UMBC's Habitat for Humanity (HFH) Chapter during my college experience was a true h...

UMBC Athletics history has few stories of Grit and Greatness that are more impressive than the 2013 ...

bwtech@UMBC is where to work, according to Smart Logic. The company recently featured alumni Delali ...

UMBC Mascots: True and Trudy Grit. October 2007

After my faithful service in the Marine Corps, I became a transfer student at UMBC. With my Marine C...

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