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  • 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

  • In a name

    About 600 people gathered on Cross Campus outside Calhoun College on Friday for what organizers called a renaming ceremony. Students protesting the... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 3 2016 08:51am

  • Sales pitch

    Bulldog Days started yesterday and runs through tomorrow. It’s the time when Yale pulls out all the stops for admitted students and tries to... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 26 2016 09:03am

  • Inside the Yale student body

    You’ll find Yale’s first microscope, a gorilla skeleton, dinosaur bones, and plenty of other wonderful artifacts in the Peabody... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 6 2016 08:50am

  • You can make it there

    Six o’clock on Friday afternoon may seem like quitting time, but students were still at it at the Center for Engineering Innovation and... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 7 2016 07:49am

  • Final push

    Final exams in Yale College begin tomorrow, so study spaces like the Silliman College Library are seeing a lot of action. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | December 16 2015 01:25pm

  • A thousand strong on Cross Campus

    This afternoon, more than a thousand students and other members of the Yale community joined a “March of Resilience,” organized by... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 9 2015 03:29pm

  • Possibilities

    The university is looking for ideas from the community as it begins planning the new Schwarzman Center in Commons and Memorial Hall. Staff members... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 16 2015 08:46am

  • Time to choose

    Democrats in New Haven’s Yale-dominated First Ward go to the polls tomorrow to select their candidate for the city’s Board of Alders.... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 15 2015 08:31am

  • Many hands

    The Class of 2019 descended on Yale College Friday morning, and upperclasspeople—like these Ezra Stiles residents—were out in force to... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 31 2015 10:11am

  • Matriculation celebration

    Since the late 1990s, the Graduate School has welcomed new students with a matriculation ceremony. After this year’s ceremony yesterday... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 28 2015 07:48am

  • Don’t call him “master”

    The sign on the door says “Pierson College Master’s House,” but the person who currently holds that title would rather you call... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 17 2015 08:38am

  • Burrito is the new burger

    Now open on Broadway, in the spot where the Educated Burgher fed generations of Yalies, is Salsa Fresca, the fifth location of a regional chain featuring... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 4 2015 08:16am

  • Goodbye to the hard stuff

    Since 2005, Yale has run a program called Spring Salvage in hope of keeping students from throwing away reusable items when they leave—whether... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 26 2015 08:15am

  • Seniors fly south

    Since the late 1980s, Yale seniors have descended by the hundreds on Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, during the week between the end of finals and the... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 8 2015 08:27am

  • Time to hit the folios

    It’s finals week, and students all over campus are likely following the example of this scholar (no pipe smoking indoors, though, please). Anybody... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 4 2015 08:52am

  • Parade rest

    The 75 cadets and midshipmen in Yale’s Air Force and Navy ROTC detachments paraded before President Peter Salovey ’86PhD and hundreds of... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 1 2015 06:55am

  • Trial by jury

    E-mailing a final paper to your professor is one thing. Standing up and defending your semester’s work to a panel of prominent architects is... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 30 2015 08:40am

  • Living color

    The last day of classes in Yale College on Friday coincided with the Hindu Students Council’s celebration of Holi. Students gathered on the lawn... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 27 2015 08:34am