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  • Souvenirs from the moon

    Fifty years ago tomorrow, the Apollo 11 astronauts landed on the moon. Two months later, Yale got a shipment of lunar rocks and dust collected on... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 19 2019 08:17am

  • Undersea, overhead

    Built at the Peabody Museum and first displayed in 1968, this model of a giant squid (Architeuthis dux) has loomed over the museum’s... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 18 2019 11:10am

  • Picture of lilies

    Another reason to visit the campus in the summer: a whole other set of flora, like these lilies outside Dow Hall on Grove Street. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 17 2019 09:29am | Ico comments 1 comment

  • See Yale first

    It must be peak campus tour season: we counted five separate groups on Cross Campus at lunchtime today. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 16 2019 02:18pm

  • When life gives you Lululemon

    The newest name-brand addition to New Haven’s Broadway? Athletic apparel retailer Lululemon. But it’s understandable if some people were... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 15 2019 01:28pm

  • A la cart

    If you get your lunch at the food carts on Sachem Street outside Ingalls Rink (and we highly recommend that you do), the tables outside Founders... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 12 2019 08:25am

  • Survivor

    The oldest standing building on the Yale campus, Connecticut Hall, was built 269 years ago. This white oak tree on the grounds of the Marsh... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 11 2019 02:14pm

  • Accommodating history

    Downtown New Haven’s newest hotel is named for a Yale pioneer. The Blake Hotel, near the campus at High and George Streets, honors Law School... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 10 2019 11:53am

  • Making herstory

    It’s no secret that both the content and the curation of Wikipedia skews male. Today some people tried to do something about that: a Yale... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 9 2019 03:23pm

  • Brightening Bingham

    Among the campus buildings getting some TLC this summer is Bingham Hall. Alums, what memories do you have of Bingham? Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 8 2019 07:50am

  • Hot time

    It’s headed for 90 degrees in New Haven today. But on Chapel Street, a few hardy souls are out in the noonday sun. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 28 2019 01:03pm

  • Yale and the Revolution: the war comes to New Haven

    Two hundred and forty years ago today, British troops landed on both sides of New Haven Harbor. President Ezra Stiles, who had spotted the invading... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 5 2019 07:19am

  • Yale and the Revolution: group portrait

    Happy Independence Day! Besides educating four of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, Yale is the caretaker of the best known visual image... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 4 2019 07:40am

  • Yale and the Revolution: a poet with Washington on his side

    Perhaps the most consequential Yale alumnus in the Revolution was David Humphreys, Class of 1771, who joined the Continental Army in 1776. He took... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 3 2019 07:46am

  • Yale and the revolution: the Turtle

    David Bushnell, Class of 1792, made his mark in the Revolution not as a spy but as an engineer and inventor. He developed the world’s first... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 2 2019 07:21am

  • Floating flowers

    Summer—when the water lilies are blooming—is the best time to visit Mars Pond, the gray-water recycling reservoir at Kroon Hall. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 27 2019 08:31am

  • Crowning touch

    It often pays to look up from your books—or your phone—on the Yale campus. This splendid ceiling is in the Starr Reference Room at... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 26 2019 12:53pm

  • Yale and the Revolution: spymaster

    America’s Independence Day falls this week, so all week we’ll be talking about Yale people and places that were part of the American... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 1 2019 10:20am

  • Summer rush

    The campus is bustling again this week as more summer programs kick in, including the National Student Leadership Conference, Yale Young Global... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 25 2019 10:08am