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May 2021

  • Green living

    Commencement has come and gone, but Cross Campus was still populated with a few people enjoying the sun yesterday afternoon. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | May 28 2021 08:28am

  • Throwback Thursday: Spirit of '71

    One of the things we’ll miss about in-person reunions this year is the mingling of alumni across the generations. New Yorker cartoonist... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | May 27 2021 08:03am

  • Something in the air

    Only a ten-minute drive from Phelps Gate, Tweed–New Haven Airport could be a great way to get to and from Yale—if only there were more... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | May 26 2021 08:13am

  • Lazy, hazy, crazy

    Another commencement is in the books. With reunions happening online this year, the campus is already settling in to the relative quiet of summer in... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | May 25 2021 09:30am | <span class="comments_link"><a class="comments_link" href="/blog_posts/3640-lazy-hazy-crazy?page=1#comments"><img src="/assets/design/ico_comments-6095ba73fed85da0e489aa3a72173d56.png" alt="Ico comments" /> 1 comment</a></span>

  • Mystery Monday: historical marker

    Today’s question: where on campus can you find this marker honoring Josiah Willard Gibbs, the pioneer of thermodynamics that Einstein called... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | May 24 2021 07:39am | <span class="comments_link"><a class="comments_link" href="/blog_posts/3639-mystery-monday-historical-marker?page=1#comments"><img src="/assets/design/ico_comments-6095ba73fed85da0e489aa3a72173d56.png" alt="Ico comments" /> 1 comment</a></span>

  • Four days in May

    Four straight days of commencement ceremonies begin today as the architecture and nursing schools celebrate their graduates. Find out more about the... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | May 21 2021 08:42am

  • Throwback Thursday: postwar procession

    Who remembers Hewitt Quadrangle before the Beinecke Library was built? This image from our July 1946 cover shows the first peacetime commencement... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | May 20 2021 08:09am

  • What everyone is wearing this spring

    Graduating students have begun to acquire their caps and gowns for commencement this weekend. We spotted Danielle Harris ’21 posing for her... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | May 19 2021 07:46am

  • Getting together

    Seeing people gathered together on campus was once commonplace; these days it’s surprising—and heartening. These students from the... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | May 18 2021 08:07am

  • Mystery Monday: on the waterfront

    Okay, so it's no Lake Carnegie, but there is a modest body of water on the Yale campus. Who knows where to find it? Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | May 17 2021 07:51am | <span class="comments_link"><a class="comments_link" href="/blog_posts/3634-mystery-monday-on-the-waterfront?page=1#comments"><img src="/assets/design/ico_comments-6095ba73fed85da0e489aa3a72173d56.png" alt="Ico comments" /> 1 comment</a></span>

  • Final countdown

    Final exams in Yale College begin today. We spotted students studying in Sterling Memorial Library's Periodical Reading Room. Alums, where did you... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | May 14 2021 09:00am

  • View from the top

    The courtyard of the Humanities Quadrangle—formerly the Hall of Graduate Studies—is placidly green now, but not too long ago it was a... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | May 13 2021 08:03am

  • Platform committee

    They’re literally setting the stage for Yale’s 320th commencement. It won’t be the usual pomp and circumstance, but... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | May 12 2021 08:49am

  • Take a walk

    High Street between Wall and Grove is now open to pedestrians, completing the conversion of four blocks of campus streets to walkways. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | May 11 2021 07:58am

  • Mystery Monday: keep scrolling

    Today’s mystery is a bit further afield than usual: do you recognize this scroll-shaped piece of architectural ornament? Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | May 10 2021 08:10am | <span class="comments_link"><a class="comments_link" href="/blog_posts/3628-mystery-monday-keep-scrolling?page=1#comments"><img src="/assets/design/ico_comments-6095ba73fed85da0e489aa3a72173d56.png" alt="Ico comments" /> 1 comment</a></span>

  • David Swensen, 1954–2021

    Like so many people at Yale, some of us at the Alumni Magazine had the great pleasure of knowing David Swensen ’80PhD, Yale's chief investment... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | May 7 2021 08:00am

  • Throwback Thursday: building a movement

    Thirty-five years ago this spring, student activists built a shanty town on Beinecke Plaza as a protest against Yale’s investments in South... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | May 6 2021 09:39am

  • He was on first

    Yale’s baseball stadium, known for its first 94 years simply as Yale Field, has been renamed to honor former US president George H. W. Bush... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | May 4 2021 08:41am