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  • Mystery Monday: fence sitters

    The International Room in Sterling Memorial Library was once the Yale Memorabilia room, and its shelves are decorated with scenes of extracurricular... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 8 2021 08:05am | Ico comments 1 comment

  • Back at its post

    Two and a half years after it was removed for the Schwarzman Center construction project, the cenotaph at the center of Yale’s World War I... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 5 2021 08:20am

  • Gathering

    Snow people tend to be rather lax about social distancing. We’re told they have natural immunities. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 4 2021 08:12am

  • Great white north

    Scenes from the snow on the northern reaches of the campus, courtesy of our new graduate fellow Noah Yann Lee ’26PhD. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 3 2021 08:35am

  • Stormy night

    New Haven got 15 inches of snow before all was said and done last night. Except for the howling winds, it was pretty quiet on Chapel Street. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 2 2021 08:07am

  • A snowy start

    It’s the first day of the “spring” semester, and this is just the beginning of a projected 8 to 12 inches of snow. Not a bad day... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 1 2021 08:58am

  • New semester, same pandemic

    Yesterday and today are move-in days for Yale College students for the spring semester. To accommodate social distancing, most first-years will be... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 29 2021 08:00am

  • Throwback Thursday: cold as Hale

    Seventy-five years ago, we featured a snow-covered Nathan Hale on our cover. You can still count on us today for all your snowy campus photo needs. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 28 2021 09:17am

  • Frosted lipstick

    New Haven has a thin blanket of snow this morning—enough to decorate the campus without causing a lot of trouble. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 27 2021 10:14am

  • Hallowed ground

    Today we learned that, 125 years ago, Yale’s now-iconic statue of Theodore Dwight Woolsey was originally going to sit in front of Durfee Hall.... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 26 2021 08:06am

  • Mystery Monday: roofline

    Today’s mystery requires looking up: what well-preserved campus building’s cornice and dormers are shown here? Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 25 2021 08:23am | Ico comments 2 comments

  • Breaking news

    The digital age has made Yale Station’s yards of bulletin boards a tad less relevant than they once were. But we were nonetheless startled... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 22 2021 09:13am

  • The campus waits

    It’s an unusually quiet January without students on campus. Move-in for the spring term begins a week from tomorrow. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 20 2021 08:36am

  • Calculated effort

    New year, new construction project: scaffolding has gone up around the base of Kline Tower as it is renovated to be home for the departments of... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 19 2021 08:13am

  • Moving in

    We spotted moving vans and boxes outside the newly renovated Humanities Quadrangle—formerly the Hall of Graduate Studies. But while the... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 14 2021 08:30am

  • One piece at a time

    Who doesn’t enjoy a good puzzle on a cold January day? When this wall outside Saybrook College was disassembled for restoration, the stones... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 13 2021 08:53am

  • Where do we start?

    As the Yale Daily News reported this weekend, the university has decided to house first-year students in their residential colleges next fall... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 12 2021 07:55am

  • Mystery Monday: on the fence

    This ornamental detail on a Yale fence is in bloom year-round. Does anyone know where it is? Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 11 2021 08:13am | Ico comments 2 comments

  • Six feet over

    Sage Boy always stays more than six feet away from everybody. But you can’t be too careful. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 8 2021 07:56am