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Then & Now—Going on Tour
Sarah Darby regularly gets in thousands of steps walking backwards around campus. “I have never felt more burn in my legs. It’s like you’re using muscle groups that you don’t use when you walk...
Posted: November 21, 2025, 3:56 PM
Then & Now—Home Sweet Home
The Retriever Weekly announces the new dorms opening in 1970. (UMBC Special Collections) “Hey UMBC, and welcome to my crib!” That’s probably not verbatim what students said when UMBC’s first...
Posted: May 30, 2025, 9:57 AM
Then and Now—Place of Play to Protected Site
The afternoon sun dances on the water of the Library pond while fish swim below the surface. Most days, you see ducks enjoying the water. Unlike many newer places on campus, the pond has been one...
Posted: December 3, 2024, 11:48 AM
Building the bonfire from scratch
At UMBC, we’re still young enough to be making traditions. Meet Thomas Locastro, biological sciences alumnus, who knew from day one on campus in 2003 that he wanted to leave behind a lasting...
Posted: December 18, 2023, 9:58 AM
Then & Now—Band of Sisters
Team photo from 1983. At the 2022 Homecoming alumnae volleyball scrimmage, Kasey Crider, who joined UMBC as head volleyball coach earlier this year, got a firsthand view of the connections the...
Posted: December 8, 2022, 10:14 AM
Then & Now—Cicada Invasion
The world has changed a lot over the past 17 years; smartphones have found their way into everyone’s pockets, social media has taken over traditional media, video rental stores like Blockbuster...
Posted: December 14, 2021, 4:18 PM
Special Edition
Under normal circumstances, print news like UMBC’s student newspaper The Retriever binds the campus community together. College students reach for the paper because they know their friend wrote a...
Posted: June 9, 2021, 6:38 PM
Then & Now—Electoral College
Most of us while away election night in our homes, nervously tapping away at our laptops, anxiously consulting cable TV pundits, and (possibly) eating a pint of ice cream along the way. For...
Posted: December 18, 2020, 9:46 PM
Change of Scenery—Then & Now
Looking at aerial photos from UMBC’s first several years—in this case, 1969—it’s hard not to think, “But where is everything?” Most of the distinctive landmarks of today’s campus are missing, and...
Posted: June 11, 2020, 4:14 PM