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Kudos to the New Haven Town Green District, which keeps downtown blooming all summer with planters and hanging baskets like these. Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 25 2019 10:40am
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Now on view in the memorabilia room at Sterling Memorial Library: “When the Walls Came Tumbling Down,” an exhibition marking the 50th... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 24 2019 08:06am
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Some cloud cover made the Sterling Library courtyard a pleasant place to pass the afternoon yesterday. By dinnertime, though, the heavens opened up... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 23 2019 08:53am
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It was too hot to run outside in New Haven yesterday. But if you really need to get in your 5K, 25 laps around the Lanman Center track does the... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 22 2019 10:36am
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Fifty years ago tomorrow, the Apollo 11 astronauts landed on the moon. Two months later, Yale got a shipment of lunar rocks and dust collected on... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 19 2019 08:17am
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Built at the Peabody Museum and first displayed in 1968, this model of a giant squid ( Architeuthis dux) has loomed over the museum’s... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 18 2019 11:10am
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Another reason to visit the campus in the summer: a whole other set of flora, like these lilies outside Dow Hall on Grove Street. Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 17 2019 09:29am |
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It must be peak campus tour season: we counted five separate groups on Cross Campus at lunchtime today. Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 16 2019 02:18pm
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The newest name-brand addition to New Haven’s Broadway? Athletic apparel retailer Lululemon. But it’s understandable if some people were... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 15 2019 01:28pm
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If you get your lunch at the food carts on Sachem Street outside Ingalls Rink (and we highly recommend that you do), the tables outside Founders... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 12 2019 08:25am
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The oldest standing building on the Yale campus, Connecticut Hall, was built 269 years ago. This white oak tree on the grounds of the Marsh... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 11 2019 02:14pm
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Downtown New Haven’s newest hotel is named for a Yale pioneer. The Blake Hotel, near the campus at High and George Streets, honors Law School... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 10 2019 11:53am
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It’s no secret that both the content and the curation of Wikipedia skews male. Today some people tried to do something about that: a Yale... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 9 2019 03:23pm
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Among the campus buildings getting some TLC this summer is Bingham Hall. Alums, what memories do you have of Bingham? Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 8 2019 07:50am
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It’s headed for 90 degrees in New Haven today. But on Chapel Street, a few hardy souls are out in the noonday sun. Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 28 2019 01:03pm
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Two hundred and forty years ago today, British troops landed on both sides of New Haven Harbor. President Ezra Stiles, who had spotted the invading... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 5 2019 07:19am
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Happy Independence Day! Besides educating four of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, Yale is the caretaker of the best known visual image... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 4 2019 07:40am
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Perhaps the most consequential Yale alumnus in the Revolution was David Humphreys, Class of 1771, who joined the Continental Army in 1776. He took... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 3 2019 07:46am
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David Bushnell, Class of 1792, made his mark in the Revolution not as a spy but as an engineer and inventor. He developed the world’s first... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 2 2019 07:21am
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Summer—when the water lilies are blooming—is the best time to visit Mars Pond, the gray-water recycling reservoir at Kroon Hall. Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 27 2019 08:31am
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