Throwback Thursday

See more from

Throwback Thursday

April 4, 2024

As we approach May's spring commencement ceremonies, we look back to this photo from April 19, 1968, of University of Toledo President William S. Carlson (right) and Graduate School Dean William H. Leckie wearing the proposed and traditional commencement academic regalia, respectively. The proposed academic regalia won out and is still in use today.


Throwback Thursday

March 28, 2024

With Mindful March Madness wrapping up, we go back to this 1980 photo of UToledo Counseling Center staff and interns. The University Counseling Center is hosting a final Wellness Check-in event from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday in Mulford Library Room 420 for students to take a mental health screening, speak with a therapist about their results and learn healthy coping skills.


Throwback Thursday

March 21, 2024

With excitement building over next month’s once-in-a-lifetime total eclipse, we go back to the Aug. 8, 2017, solar eclipse that had international student Bhavya Band and other Rockets gathered outside of Ritter Planetarium and Observatory and McMaster Hall to gaze at the wonder in the sky through special glasses.


Throwback Thursday

March 7, 2024

For Women’s History Month we remember UToledo alumna Doris Fenneberg, who, in 1946, became the first woman in UToledo’s College of Law to hold the title of instructor of law. Fenneberg also served as law librarian and continued teaching until 1969, when she was given the title of Professor Emerita for her outstanding contributions to UToledo.


2 Rockets Named to Women’s College All-Star Game Watch List

March 1, 2024

Quinesha Lockett, Sophia Wiard were named, making Toledo one of only 13 schools in the country to have multiple players on the watch list.


Throwback Thursday

February 8, 2024

In celebration of University Hall’s 50th anniversary in 1981, The University of Toledo hosted events and activities including this afternoon outdoor concert for the campus and Toledo communities on Centennial Mall.  


Throwback Thursday

February 1, 2024

Since it began in 1988, Toledo Excel, a scholarship incentive program at The University of Toledo, has been striving to prepare underrepresented students for success in college. This photo is of the first class of Toledo Excel students graduating in 1993, having joined the program in July 1989.


Throwback Thursday

January 25, 2024

For this Throwback Thursday we go back to 1936, shortly after The University of Toledo’s student union, as it was called, was built. The building was later renamed Libbey Hall for Florence Scott Libbey, Jesup Scott’s granddaughter and wife of Edward Drummond Libbey.


Throwback Thursday

November 2, 2023

Members of the Dancing Rock-ets pose with U.S. soldiers during their 1965 European tour in this Throwback Thursday photo from the Ward M. Canaday Center for Special Collections. Eleven members of the group were selected to entertain U.S. servicemen in Germany, France and Italy during an eight-week tour.


Throwback Thursday

September 28, 2023

With the annual Edward C. and Helen G. Schmakel Homecoming Parade on Saturday, we jump back to 1950 with this UToledo Homecoming Parade photo of a convertible Jeep pulling the Pi Beta Phi float featuring the Homecoming queen on a swing set.