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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
June 29, 2023
As UToledo’s Sesquicentennial celebration comes to an end, we go back to this aerial photo of the campus from 1967, a milestone year for the University.
June 1, 2023
Members of The University of Toledo - Alliance Française pose for a photo after arriving in France for a cultural visit. The organization was formed in 1966 to “advance the education and general welfare” of the campus community and Toledo area through the study of French culture and by providing scholarships and awards.
May 25, 2023
Works Progress Administration workers take a lunch break during construction of the Field House — later renamed Memorial Field House — in 1930. A WPA crew of 400 men built the Field House and University Hall in 11 months, with both buildings opening the University’s “new campus” on Bancroft Street in February 1931.
April 13, 2023
Since Rocky the Rocket’s introduction in the late 1960s, UToledo’s mascot has gone through many iterations, including briefly wearing an authentic NASA spacesuit in the late 1970s.
March 30, 2023
Since 1959, there had been dreams of a beautiful green space in the heart of Main Campus. But work really began in the mid-1970s, when the University unveiled plans to replace a parking lot with a mall that included grass, walkways, trees and a fountain. Centennial Mall was officially dedicated in 1980. And in 1999, the American Society of Landscape Architects named it “one of the most beautifully landscaped spaces in America.”
