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The Education-Math Building was constructed in 1968, and the Social Science Building was constructed in 1973, as was Gym II. These buildings are now known as Mathematics & Psychology Building, Janet and Walter Sondheim Hall, and the Retriever…

Friday, October 15, 1976, was a quiet day on campus when a student photographer had the time to make some views of Gym I and the Quad.

Friday, October 15, 1976, was a quiet day on campus when a student photographer had the time to make some views of Gym I and the Quad.

Friday, October 15, 1976, was a quiet day on campus when a student photographer had the time to make some views of Gym I and the Quad.

Friday, October 15, 1976, was a quiet day on campus when a student photographer had the time to make some views of Gym I and the Quad.

Even as the UC was opening, there was a clear need for additional space for student life at UMBC. Student needs seemed to outgrow the UC even before everyone had moved into the building, although it would be almost 20 years before the Commons opened…

In the early 1990s, architectural consultants LDR, Inc. prepared a Campus Facilities Master Plan that outlined how UMBC would structurally grow over the next 20 years. Basing the plan on everything from traffic studies and enrollment projections to…

Although the bwtech@UMBC Research & Technology Park opened in 2002, it was a project more than a decade in the making. After discovering an illegal garbage dump in 1990, the university decided to publicly make plans for the construction of a research…

UMBC's student body continued to grow throughout the 1980s, and by 1990 it had outgrown the University Center as the main student activity space. The administration decided to build the Commons—a collaboration between Perry Dean Rogers and Design…