The True Grit statue was unveiled in 1987. The sculptor was an alumna -- Paulette Raye '87, philosop...

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

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

Do you remember when campus looked like this? There's a lot more of it to walk around now, needless ...

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

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

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

Did you ever take a class with chemistry professor Robert F. Steiner?

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...

Our library, towers and all!

In 1981, rumors that the State Board of Higher Education was planning to close UMBC and turn the cam...

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

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

In 1965, UMBC moved from a plan to a reality. Albin O. Kuhn was named as vice president of the so-ca...

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

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...

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

The Terrace Apartments opened on campus in 1981 -- representing an expansion of the residential life...

We've got some pretty interesting stuff buried in our archives, and in honor of the 50th, we're dust...

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

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

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

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

Do you remember when Reggie Truitt '89 played for the Retrievers?

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

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

Who was the most famous performer or group to play a concert at UMBC? —Eric Messner ’01 UMBC has...

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...

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

"Greek" was the word at UMBC in 1983 -- as this advertisement for a session on "The N...

From the earliest days of UMBC, finding one's place didn't just mean growing as a student and a pers...

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