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Once the Catonsville site was selected for the expansion of the University of Maryland, Dr. Kuhn quickly began working on specifications for the new campus. He visited universities across the country to get ideas for the construction of both…

While flying home from New Orleans, Dr. Kuhn noted more classrooms” and Block programs to keep st[udents] in certain areas of campus.” Further down the page, he wrote: move prof[essors] to students,” and Place classrooms on lower floors.” He was…

Making the new campus one devoted to research was on Kuhn’s mind as he began thinking about a campus Master Plan.” Extensiveness of Research—Kinds of research…and Balance of Govt. sup[port] vs commercial [support]” and Short term vs long term…

The Commons was built on the foundation of the Gym I building, which was no longer needed after the university funded improvements for the Retriever Activities Center.

The first issue of the student newspaper in 1966 reported that the university would install a Student Government Association that would provide for self-government under the jurisdiction of the university's administrative and faculty personnel." The…

UMBC's second president was Calvin B.T. Lee. Son of a Chinese-American family, he was a graduate of New York University Law School (Doctor of the Science of Law). He practiced law for several years, worked for the U. S. Department of Education, and…

The Center for Women and Information Technology Scholars Program (CWIT) promotes engineering opportunities for women and strives to solve the problem of underrepresentation in related fields. The program includes chemical engineering, computer…

All institutions of higher education seek to preserve the past. We are citadels of learning, guardians of culture. We recognize that the past is prologue, and know that those who fail to study history are doomed to repeat it. But progressive…