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September 2015

  • The dark tower

    It’s gray and sultry on Science Hill today. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | September 29 2015 10:00am

  • High noon at HGS

    Another good day to be outside today, especially in the cloistered calm of the Hall of Graduate Studies courtyard. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | September 28 2015 01:22pm

  • Watch this space

    First hints of fall. More to come. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | September 25 2015 11:30am

  • Legal advice

    “Law is a living growth, not a changeless code.” The inscription above the Grove Street entrance to the Sterling Law Building offers... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | September 24 2015 08:39am

  • Main attraction

    A tour group snapped pictures of Sterling Memorial Library on Rose Walk yesterday. Yale’s Visitor Center gives 1,100 tours a year to 80,000... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | September 23 2015 09:22am

  • Al fresco

    Yesterday was a good day to eat lunch on the terrace in Ezra Stiles College. There was also a vacancy in the courtyard hammock. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | September 22 2015 09:49am

  • Raising the roof

    With roof framing now under way, the new residential colleges are literally starting to take shape. In the foreground is the master’s house... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | September 21 2015 08:58am

  • First hint of fall

    It’s still getting up into the 80s in New Haven this week, but a flannel shirt is not out of the question for an early morning class. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | September 18 2015 08:41am

  • Forty delicious years

    Happy anniversary to Claire’s Corner Copia, which, as of today, has been serving  vegetarian cuisine to town and gown for 40... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | September 17 2015 09:19am

  • Possibilities

    The university is looking for ideas from the community as it begins planning the new Schwarzman Center in Commons and Memorial Hall. Staff members... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | September 16 2015 08:46am

  • Time to choose

    Democrats in New Haven’s Yale-dominated First Ward go to the polls tomorrow to select their candidate for the city’s Board of Alders.... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | September 15 2015 08:31am

  • Mystery Monday: Hmmmmm

    This creature looks particularly pensive. Can anyone identify the building at Yale where s/he appears? We’ll update this post with the answer... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | September 14 2015 10:19am

  • Fourteen years

    The campus marked the 14th anniversary of the September 11 attacks this morning with a ceremony on Beinecke Plaza. Yale ROTC students raised the... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | September 11 2015 09:09am

  • Brittania rules the waves

    Queen Elizabeth II became Great Britain’s longest-reigning monarch yesterday. Although the Yale Center for British Art is closed for... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | September 10 2015 08:36am

  • Summer’s not gone yet

    Mad dogs and Englishmen—and the occasional Yalie—go out in the midday sun. It was 91 degrees on Cross Campus yesterday when we took this... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | September 9 2015 08:52am

  • The world on a string

    A 14-foot-diameter globe dominates the exhibition gallery of Paul Rudolph Hall (the A&A Building to us old-timers) as part of a new exhibit... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | September 8 2015 09:10am

  • Russian hideaway

    For our September/October cover story on special places at Yale, we climbed into a cupola in Davenport College and found a chapel in the basement of... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | September 4 2015 08:44am

  • Throwback Thursday: new faces of the Class of ’69

    As the Class of 2019 was finding its way around campus this week, we ran across this November 1965 issue of our magazine featuring interviews with 11... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | September 3 2015 09:00am

  • Poster boy

    During Yale College’s famous “shopping period,” in which students have a chance to try out courses before making their final... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | September 2 2015 08:59am