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  • Free range

    The Peabody Museum renovation and expansion isn't scheduled for completion until 2024. But now that the construction fence along Whitney Avenue is... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 25 2023 08:00am

  • On the road

    New Haven is slowly reclaiming the land once occupied by the Oak Street Connector, a "highway to nowhere" that separated the Yale-New Haven Medical... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 11 2023 08:00am

  • Remembering COVID

    Now hanging inside the entrance to the School of Medicine's Boardman Building: a mixed-media painting by School of Art graduate Ye Qin Zhu... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 10 2023 08:00am

  • No appointment necessary

    Students lined up on Cross Campus yesterday to get their bivalent COVID-19 vaccine from the medical school's Community Health Care Van. Yale is... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 11 2022 08:00am

  • Mystery Monday: how's your Latin?

    Who knows where we found this seal adorning a Yale building? It will help if you’ve taken Latin. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 10 2022 08:00am | Ico comments 3 comments

  • Self-serve

    With regular COVID testing no longer required for asymptomatic students, those transparent testing booths are now a thing of the past. Now people... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 2 2022 08:51am

  • The medicine of the soul

    There were plenty of doctors in the house at Harkness Auditorium Friday night as the Yale Medical Symphony Orchestra played its first concert since... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 7 2022 08:23am

  • Throwback Thursday: checkup

    Forty years ago, we noted the rise of the nurse practitioner on our March 1982 cover, featuring Lois Sadler ’79MSN and a young patient. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 3 2022 08:14am

  • Boning up on anatomy

    We spotted this hoodie-clad skeleton—a tool for student biomedical design projects—in the window of the Center for Engineering... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 12 2022 08:10am

  • A son of New Haven and Yale

    Today is the birthday of Edward Bouchet (1852–1918), a New Haven–born physicist who graduated from Yale College in 1874 and earned his... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 15 2021 08:05am

  • A large litter

    How much are those doggies in the window? Well, it’s not a pet shop; the little bulldogs are products of the 3-D printers in the Center for... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 4 2021 09:09am

  • You're gonna need a bigger boat

    If your weekend plans include fishing, here’s some inspiration: this xiphactinus skeleton from the Peabody Museum hangs outside the O. C.... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 4 2021 08:09am

  • End of a dry spell

    Another scene from a campus comeback: Mars Pond, the gray water–recycling pool at the environment school’s Kroon Hall, is operating... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 3 2021 08:48am

  • Mystery Monday: historical marker

    Today’s question: where on campus can you find this marker honoring Josiah Willard Gibbs, the pioneer of thermodynamics that Einstein called... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 24 2021 07:39am | Ico comments 1 comment

  • Mystery Monday: bonding experience

    You don’t have to be a chemist to tell us where this stone carving is found or what it represents, but it might help. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 29 2021 08:18am | Ico comments 2 comments

  • Hang in there

    The second wave of coronavirus infections continues to plague Connecticut, but there is hope: more than 2 percent of the state's citizens have now... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 6 2021 08:18am

  • Amazing Grace

    Today is the birthday of Grace Murray Hopper ’34PhD (1906–1992), mathematician, computer pioneer, rear admiral, and—since... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | December 9 2020 08:41am

  • Recycled

    Yale’s nuclear particle accelerator was removed in 2015, but a piece of it remains in front of its former home, Wright Laboratory. Artist... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 30 2020 07:52am

  • Get the message?

    The campus bulletin boards are now doubling as billboards to spread the word on preventing COVID-19. Other nearby boards read “WEAR FACE... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 16 2020 08:00am