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Mindful March Madness

March 26, 2025

University Counseling Center is hosting events like Style Your Stuffie all week to help support students as they approach the finish line of the academic year.


Throwback Thursday

February 27, 2025

With the recent thaw and puddles everywhere on campus, we turn back to March of 1963 when UToledo was flooded, along with the state of Ohio and surrounding states, as the eastern portion of the United States was deluged with rain and snow.


Throwback Thursday

January 16, 2025

Today’s throwback is to 1970 and The University of Toledo’s “Technical Media Center” — later renamed the Audio-Visual Services Department — that served as a unit of University Libraries, offering students access to audio and video equipment and, by the 1980s, computers and other nascent technologies.


Throwback Thursday

November 14, 2024

This aerial photo captures UToledo’s Main Campus in 1950: University Hall at top center, World War II-era military barracks south of it, a grass parking lot that replaced a baseball diamond to the east of University Hall, and “The Glass Bowl,” newly renovated and renamed, at the southern part of campus.


Throwback Thursday

November 7, 2024

Exploring ways to enhance recruitment, UToledo launched the “InformationStation,” a 22-foot mobile vehicle gift to the University from the Sheller-Globe Corp. of Toledo on April 17, 1974.


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.