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January 2025

  • Did Pigpen do this?

    Most of last week's snow has melted by now, but the world's dirtiest snowball is still on view on Old Campus. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | January 30 2025 07:25am

  • Harkness's little brother

    Bass Tower, which rises from the corner of Pauli Murray College, is 190 feet tall—26 deferential feet shorter than Harkness Tower. We got this... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | January 29 2025 04:23am

  • Before sunset

    Yesterday around quitting time, we caught the winter sun bathing Harkness Tower in golden light. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | January 28 2025 03:46am

  • Mystery Monday: points of light

    This one will be familiar to alums who remembered to look up on their way to class. Anyone know where we spotted this ornate chandelier? Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | January 27 2025 08:48am | <span class="comments_link"><a class="comments_link" href="/blog_posts/4530-mystery-monday-points-of-light?page=1#comments"><img src="/assets/design/ico_comments-6095ba73fed85da0e489aa3a72173d56.png" alt="Ico comments" /> 2 comments</a></span>

  • Big dig

    We'd like to say that the new buildings of the Upper Science Hill Complex are going up, but so far they're mostly going down. Excavation work has... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | January 24 2025 04:12am

  • Throwback Thursday: out for blood

    By February 1942, when this photo appeared in our magazine, Yale had been transformed by America's entry into World War II. The image shows students... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | January 23 2025 04:22am

  • Staying warm

    With temperatures in the teens yesterday, Steep café on Science Hill was a good place to get comfortable with a hot cup of coffee or tea. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | January 22 2025 03:42am

  • Little friend

    We got just a couple of inches of snow over the weekend, enough for someone to make a diminutive snowman on an Old Campus bench. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | January 21 2025 03:28am

  • Rudolph at Tuskegee

    Now on view at the Yale Architecture Gallery: The Tuskegee Chapel: Paul Rudolph X Fry & Welch, an exhibition about the chapel Rudolph... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | January 17 2025 04:34am

  • Throwback Thursday: what might have been

    125 years ago this month, in our January 31, 1900, edition, we revealed plans for Yale's Bicentennial buildings—Commons, Woolsey Hall... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | January 15 2025 10:00pm

  • Bundle up

    It's cold and windy on campus today. Those of us without fur need lots of layers. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | January 15 2025 08:08am

  • Mystery Monday: eyes up

    The building should be familiar to many of you, but the perspective is a little unusual. Where on campus are we? Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | January 13 2025 04:13am | <span class="comments_link"><a class="comments_link" href="/blog_posts/4522-mystery-monday-eyes-up?page=1#comments"><img src="/assets/design/ico_comments-6095ba73fed85da0e489aa3a72173d56.png" alt="Ico comments" /> 2 comments</a></span>

  • It's all in how you see it

    On view at the Peabody Museum: Mind/Matter: The Neuroscience of Perception, Attention, and Memory, the museum's first temporary exhibit since... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | January 10 2025 04:31am

  • Throwback Thursday: before Sterling

    From an April 1925 issue of the Yale Alumni Weekly, a glimpse of some of the buildings that were demolished to make room for Sterling Memorial... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | January 8 2025 11:50pm

  • A classic interior

    When the sun is streaming through the windows on a frigid winter day, the sculpture hall at the Yale University Art Gallery is one of our favorite... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | January 8 2025 08:34am

  • Cool cat

    One of the lions of Lanman-Wright Hall surveys the snow we got yesterday. Not much compared to what a lot of the country has received, but enough to... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | January 6 2025 11:33pm

  • Mystery Monday: happy old year!

    1931 was a big year for construction on the Yale campus. Do you know which building from that time bears this stone carving? Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | January 5 2025 10:00pm | <span class="comments_link"><a class="comments_link" href="/blog_posts/4517-mystery-monday-happy-old-year?page=1#comments"><img src="/assets/design/ico_comments-6095ba73fed85da0e489aa3a72173d56.png" alt="Ico comments" /> 2 comments</a></span>

  • Walking in their footsteps

    Visitors finding their way to the Peabody Museum from the parking lot have a little help embedded in the sidewalk. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | January 3 2025 08:55am