Daily Snap

Scenes on campus

ARCHIVES

October 2024

  • Offerings

    The pioneering scientist and Yale professor Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839–1903) may not be a household name, but he has had a long list of... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | October 30 2024 12:00am

  • Drill, baby, drill!

    Three drilling rigs are at work in the parking lot north of the Peabody Museum, but Yale's not getting into the oil business. The rigs are drilling... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | October 29 2024 12:00am

  • Coming to a point

    New in the Art Gallery sculpture garden: Monument (Pyramid) by Maren Hassinger. The pyramid consists of a metal frame covered in buckthorn... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | October 28 2024 03:58am

  • In the round

    For your “wholesome Yale photos” bingo card: class sitting in a circle on Cross Campus. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | October 25 2024 04:38am

  • Take a shot

    It feels like football weather, but it looks like it's basketball season in one of the courtyards of Benjamin Franklin College. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | October 24 2024 05:32am

  • Mirror image

    Reflections of the season in the glass façade of the Malone Center. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | October 23 2024 09:41am

  • High season

    More fall color—this time on High Street. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | October 21 2024 10:42am

  • Exposure

    On display in the Schwarzman Center’s Well Gallery: portraits from a Yale program called The View from Here, which teaches photography to... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | October 18 2024 04:38am

  • Throwback Thursday: Hush Hall

    One hundred years ago this week, students woke up to find workers preparing the foundations for a new residence hall on Old Campus that had never been... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | October 17 2024 12:00am

  • No cars allowed

    The narrow passage along the north side of SOM's Evans Hall is a much-traveled pedestrian and bicycle route between the campus and the East Rock... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | October 16 2024 10:44am

  • Breaking news

    The trees on Rose Walk tell us that it’s really fall, and the academic calendar agrees: a three-day fall break for Yale College and the... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | October 15 2024 05:32am

  • Mystery Monday: where was Sloane?

    Before Sloane Physics Lab on Science Hill, there was another building by that name on campus. Where is this carving that commemorates its former... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | October 14 2024 06:19am | <span class="comments_link"><a class="comments_link" href="/blog_posts/4471-mystery-monday-where-was-sloane?page=1#comments"><img src="/assets/design/ico_comments-6095ba73fed85da0e489aa3a72173d56.png" alt="Ico comments" /> 3 comments</a></span>

  • The many moods of Jack

    Which jack-o’-lantern are you? It's deadline time at the magazine; we’re the second from the right. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | October 11 2024 05:16am

  • Throwback Thursday: winds of change

    Our October 1964 issue reported a political shift among Yale students: a "significant majority" of the incoming Class of 1968 considered themselves... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | October 9 2024 08:39pm

  • Season finale

    The dogwoods in the campus moats are nearly as beautiful in the fall as in the spring. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | October 9 2024 05:46am

  • A year later

    The first anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel was marked with several events on campus yesterday. Yale Friends of Israel set up a shabbat... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | October 8 2024 05:18am

  • Claire's looks forward to fifty

    Claire's Corner Copia, the vegetarian restaurant that has soothed generations of Yalies with its Lithuanian coffee cake, turns 50 next year. And... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | October 4 2024 03:17am

  • Legal grounds

    On a mild fall day, the Law School courtyard is a popular spot at lunchtime. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | October 3 2024 06:20am

  • This week in cryptozoology

     Looks like Branford College is experimenting with some new branding. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | October 2 2024 10:08am