1. The Engineering/Computer Science and Information Technology Buildings: Taken together, these two buildings—the $23.5 million Engineering/Computer Science Building, which opened in 1992, and the $37.4 million Information Technology/ Engineering Building, slated to open in 2003—house departments in engineering and information systems, as well as UMBC’s renowned Imaging Research Center.

2. The Albin O. Kuhn Library tower: UMBC’s library doubled in size with the addition of a $23 million, seven-story tower that opened in 1995.

3. techcenter@UMBC: This five-building,
30-acre complex with 170,000 square feet of lab, research, and office space was acquired from Lockheed Martin in 1996 and is located a mile from UMBC’s main campus. The facility is fully leased and houses more than 25 emerging biotech and infotech companies.

4. Physics Building: This $27 million building opened in 1999 and includes labs and classrooms for faculty research and teaching. Its most distinctive feature: a dome housing a Cassegrain telescope, used by UMBC’s Atmospheric Spectroscopy Laboratory and the Joint Center for Astrophysics. On selected evenings, it is also open to the public.

5. Campus housing: Through an innovative partnership with the Erickson Foundation, UMBC has significantly increased its on-campus housing. With the addition of Erickson Hall, named in honor of philanthropists John and Nancy Erickson and completed in 2000, and Harbor Hall, which was completed in 2002, more than 3,100 students now live on campus. Construction is also under way on an additional 580-bed apartment complex.

6. Retriever Activities Center: Known on campus as “The RAC,” this addition to UMBC’s field house opened in 1999 and features a multipurpose gym, a multipurpose aerobics studio, a weight room, departmental offices, and several classrooms. The entire RAC complex includes a 4,500-seat basketball arena, an indoor track, and indoor and outdoor swimming pools.

7. bwtech@UMBC: The University’s research and technology park, located on 41 acres across from the main campus, opened its first building in 2002, RWD Technologies’ Applied Technology Laboratory.

8. Biological Sciences and Chemistry Building renovations: While their exteriors are still the same familiar red brick, research and teaching labs, offices, and classrooms in these two academic buildings have been overhauled and upgraded, an investment of more than $45 million in life sciences facilities.

9. The Commons: This $32 million facility, completed in 2002, is the new social center of campus, with places to hang out, relax, and even study. The Commons houses student organizations, the campus bookstore, a food court, a game room, and a cabaret for live
entertainment.

10. Public Policy Building: This $17.5
million building, scheduled to be completed in 2004, will bring together the Shriver Center, the Maryland Institute for Policy Analysis and Research, and the economics, political science, policy sciences, and sociology and anthropology departments.