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  • Cool

    School starts next week at the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, but for now Sage Boy is still in vacation mode. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 24 2016 08:02am

  • All ears

    A favorite architectural detail from the Hall of Graduate Studies: stonecarvers incorporated likenesses of some of some of the administrators and... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 23 2016 11:05am

  • Growth experience

    Classes may have been in recess at the Divinity School this summer, but the school’s community gardeners were still tending their plots. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 22 2016 09:31am

  • The Peabody’s Broadway debut

    As part of its 150th anniversary celebration, the Peabody Museum of Natural History has just annexed a highly visible corner of campus. For the... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 17 2016 08:43am

  • Welcome

    We’ve always admired the front door of Swensen House, home of Berkeley’s head of college (or, before last spring, the master’s... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 15 2016 09:26am

  • Life of the mind

    I ain't got no body: above the door of the Starr Main Reference Room at Sterling Memorial Library, a couple of monkish scholars keep watch. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 11 2016 08:43am

  • New digs for grad students

    Workers have begun preparing the site of a former parking lot on Elm Street for the construction of a six-story building with retail space on the... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 10 2016 08:36am

  • See Yale first

    It is without a doubt the season for campus tours. One can encounter four or more tour groups on a single walk through central campus; one group was... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 9 2016 08:26am

  • Too soon?

    A little dinosaur-mortality humor from the Peabody Museum. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 8 2016 08:41am

  • Our changing skyline

    The west tower of Pauli Murray College—which will be just a few feet shorter than Harkness Tower—is looking finished in the middle, but... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 5 2016 08:54am

  • What would Saarinen say?

    Spotted in the courtyard of Ezra Stiles College: some housing in a more traditional style. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 4 2016 08:35am

  • Ups and downs

    Besides the 4,000 or so works of art on display at the Yale University Art Gallery, the buildings themselves reward a closer look. This stairwell is... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 3 2016 08:32am | Ico comments 1 comment

  • Calhoun: still up for debate

    The visage of John C. Calhoun, Class of 1804, adorns an entryway to the residential college that is named for him. In the spring, Yale said that it... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 2 2016 08:51am

  • Down under

    These days, the sunken court next to the Center for British Art houses a “farm-to-fork” wine bar and bistro called Harvest. But the... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 1 2016 08:41am

  • Showers for flowers

    The flowers—and the people—on Rose Walk are happy to see some rain this morning. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 29 2016 08:58am

  • The room where it happened

    Tonight, Hillary Rodham Clinton ’73JD will accept her party’s nomination for president of the United States—the first woman and... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 28 2016 08:53am

  • Web maintenance

    Conservator Natalie Karas spent a few days recently working on Alexander Liberman’s Lightweb on the Morse-Stiles walkway. Karas cleaned... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 27 2016 08:51am

  • Grand opening

    Somewhere on campus there may be a more beautiful pair of doors than these at the entrance to Strathcona Hall, but we can’t think of any... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 26 2016 08:36am

  • Popping up everywhere

    Twice a week in July, students from the Morse Summer Music Academy play “pop-up concerts” in several spots on campus and downtown. The... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 22 2016 08:45am