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In 1965, UMBC moved from a plan to a reality. Albin O. Kuhn was named as vice president of the so-ca...
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1966 was a year of firsts for UMBC. The university opened its doors and on its first day of classes,...
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UMBC has always been looking to the future, and our archive of master plans and documents is proof p...
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The Alumni House staff take Halloween pretty seriously. This photo was taken outside of Alumni House...
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For a lot of UMBC students in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, the Albin O. Kuhn Library never had a towe...
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For a young university, traditions are important. Since 2005, UMBC's Homecoming Bonfire has been a p...
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UMBC Athletics hit peak Retriever Fever in the 2007-2008 season, when the men's basketball team stor...
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Parking and traffic have always been on the front burner at UMBC -- especially when the campus was a...
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A dive into the archives of The Retriever Weekly doesn't just excavate the history of UMBC, but it a...
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The silo on UMBC Boulevard suggests a connection between the university and farming. What was that p...
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Why was the Hillcrest Building torn down? What was the history behind this structure? —Perry Alexa...
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Chess has been an integral part of the UMBC story, and one of the greatest teams in university histo...
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2008 was finally the moment when UMBC’s men’s basketball team got to the "Big Dance" -...
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Does UMBC have secret underground tunnels? Why? —Bennett Moe ’88 Mention the word “tunnels” ...
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Is it true that you have to run around the Loop Road to get rid of the calories in one donut? I hear...
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Who was the most famous performer or group to play a concert at UMBC? —Eric Messner ’01 UMBC has...
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Why does UMBC not have a football team? Did the university ever consider having one? —Lisa Price ...
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One of the landmark moments in making UMBC a greener campus came in 2007, when UMBC President Freema...
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UMBC's 40th anniversary in 2006 had fireworks and parties, but one of its best remembered moments wa...
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UMBC has always looked to the future -- and the founding of the Erickson School of Aging Studies in ...
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UMBC Retrievers Athletics found a new home in 2003 by joining the America East conference. It has be...
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Were you at Quadmania 1998? You'll certainly remember seeing M. Doughty and his band Soul Coughing a...
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In the fall of 2003, Kevin Yang ’07 computer science and financial economics and Katelyn Niu ’05...
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The first students at UMBC were 750 pioneers who arrived on September 19, 1966 and found three acade...
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What is the oldest standing building on campus? —Sara Shannon ’05, social work When the Hillcres...
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When did UMBC become a national college chess powerhouse? —Valerie Kilgallon ’87, English Accord...
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In 2002, men’s tennis standout Oscar Lopez ’00, and M.S. ’02, mechanical engineering, became t...
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As a standout player in women’s lacrosse who also excelled in the classroom, Kelly Fiorani Marriot...
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In 2004, the UMBC men’s swimming made Retrievers proud when the team took home its first America E...
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The sparkplug for the UMBC men’s basketball team’s memorable run to the NCAA tournament in 2008,...
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Midnight Classes on Gay Street The class is huddled together; early May still has a chill. We’re ...
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We've got some pretty interesting stuff buried in our archives, and in honor of the 50th, we're dust...
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Do you remember when campus looked like this? There's a lot more of it to walk around now, needless ...
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