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...

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

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 ...

In 2007, UMBC women’s basketball team earned its first NCAA tournament bid. Where you there to wat...

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’...

At the Imaging Research Center (IRC), we eat lunch together often. Turns out we like to talk about d...

"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...

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

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

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

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

"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...

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

A proud moment for UMBC athletics came when women’s track and field phenom Cleopatra Borel ’02, ...

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...

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 ...

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

It's no small feat to narrow down 50 years of athletics history to some of our most iconic moments, ...