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September 2024

  • Walk between the raindrops

    Umbrellas went up around lunchtime yesterday when a light rain began to fall. It was the first rain of September; some first-years were beginning to... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | September 27 2024 04:06am

  • Throwback Thursday: solo scholar

    Our February 1980 cover featured Rueben Aguilera ’80, one of 12 seniors enrolled in Yale's Scholars of the House program that year. From 1946... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | September 26 2024 09:09am

  • Headed for a fall

    As of Sunday, it's officially fall. A few trees on campus have gotten the memo. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | September 24 2024 05:27am

  • Mystery Monday: Mr. Yuk

    One of our editors has been roaming the campus for decades now looking for hidden details in Yale's architecture. Just when he thought he'd seen it... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | September 23 2024 06:13am | <span class="comments_link"><a class="comments_link" href="/blog_posts/4458-mystery-monday-mr-yuk?page=1#comments"><img src="/assets/design/ico_comments-6095ba73fed85da0e489aa3a72173d56.png" alt="Ico comments" /> 2 comments</a></span>

  • The great outdoors

    One legacy of the COVID era on campus is the variety of places Yale provides to sit outside. We found a half dozen people working in the shade of... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | September 20 2024 06:41am

  • Throwback Thursday: old-school football

    Yale's 151st varsity football team—or Team 151, as they style themselves—has its season opener on Saturday at Holy Cross. We just ran across this... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | September 19 2024 12:00am

  • Might as well jump

    You never know what you might find on a Sunday afternoon stroll across campus. This time it was double dutch on Beinecke Plaza. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | September 18 2024 07:07am

  • We, the people

    Today is Constitution Day, the 237th anniversary of the signing of the US Constitution by the delegates who crafted it. On Sunday, the Beinecke... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | September 17 2024 06:07am

  • Any way you slice it

    On Friday, people poured onto College Street for New Haven's ninth annual Apizza Feast. Sally's, Pepe's, and more than a dozen other local pizza... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | September 16 2024 06:32am

  • Leafing out

    September is when the campus bulletin boards sport a new layer of dense foliage. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | September 13 2024 12:00am

  • Grand reopening

    The gate leading into Branford College's Linonia Court was spiffed up over the summer. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | September 11 2024 07:23am

  • Twenty-four little hours

    Now showing at the Art Gallery: The Dance of Life: Figure and Imagination in American Art, 1876–1917. The exhibition focuses on the human... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | September 10 2024 05:34am

  • Throwback Thursday: belated recognition

    Our October 1984 cover featured President A. Bartlett Giamatti ’60, ’64PhD, greeting new students after the Graduate and Professional... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | September 12 2024 12:00am

  • Mystery Monday: pattern recognition

    On Mondays (when we feel like it), we like to show you a detail from somewhere on campus and let you figure out where it is. Anyone recognize this... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | September 9 2024 09:49am | <span class="comments_link"><a class="comments_link" href="/blog_posts/4448-mystery-monday-pattern-recognition?page=1#comments"><img src="/assets/design/ico_comments-6095ba73fed85da0e489aa3a72173d56.png" alt="Ico comments" /> 2 comments</a></span>

  • Opportunity knocks

    ’Tis the season for campus organizations to promote themselves to new and returning students. Yesterday was the East Asia Opportunities Fair... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | September 6 2024 08:50am

  • Throwback Thursday: reforesting Old Campus

    Fifty years ago this fall, as we reported in our October 1974 issue, students arrived to find 33 new pin oak trees had been planted on Old Campus.... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | September 5 2024 12:00am

  • On display

    Tsai CITY is a great place to get some work done, but with its undulating glass walls, it's not the best place to hide. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | September 4 2024 11:28am