Riggs Alumni Center
Riggs Alumni Center
Opened in 2005; named for Samuel Riggs IV, Class of 1950 (B.S. Business Administration), a philanthropist, cattle farmer, and construction company official who devised the idea to construct a building solely for Maryland alumni; designed by noted architect Hugh Newell Jacobsen (Class of 1951, honorary doctorate 1993). Riggs Alumni Center houses the offices of the Alumni Association and other University Relations staff members, Orem Alumni Hall, the Philip R. Rever Alumni Hall of Fame, and numerous other meeting and special event rooms.