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This week UMBC made history as the first ever No. 16 seed team to best a No. 1 seed in an NCAA men’s basketball tournament. The Retrievers’ season ended last night in a hard-fought round two, but...

Thank you, Retriever Nation! UMBC’s historic 20-point win over no. 1 seed University of Virginia last Friday gave the Retrievers a taste of NCAA victory. Two days and one Sports Illustrated cover...

As Retriever Nation erupted with joy for UMBC’s 74-54 upset victory over the University of Virginia—a team thought unbeatable just hours before—millions of new fans learned for the first time what...

With tonight’s 74-54 win over the University of Virginia’s (UVA) Cavaliers, UMBC has made basketball history as the first No. 16 seed team to best a No. 1 seed in an NCAA men’s tournament. The...

Tristan Mountcastle, a senior majoring in political science, talks about how much his scholarship means to him. On March 14, donors and students gathered for UMBC’s the annual Endowed Scholarship...

Who doesn’t love a delicious piece of pie? Well, at UMBC we also love our pi, the infinite decimal 3.14 essential for so many computations (and puns). Our love is completely rational, we swear,...

Decked out in black and gold, Retriever fans cheered ecstatically on Tuesday afternoon as the UMBC men’s basketball team set off for game one of the NCAA tournament—the team’s first in a decade....

As he received one of higher education’s highest honors on Monday, March 12, UMBC President Freeman Hrabowski used the moment to underscore the essential role that colleges and universities play...

With less than a second left on the clock, the Retrievers’ star guard Jairus Lyles made a stunning three-point shot, dethroning the University of Vermont in an edge-of-your-seat America East...

Denise Meringolo was teaching her graduate-level Introduction to Public History course in the spring of 2015 when Freddie Gray died in police custody and city residents responded with protest,...