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  • Mystery Monday: beauty overhead

    To appreciate Yale’s architecture fully, you have to remember to look up sometimes. Does anyone recognize this ceiling? Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 9 2020 08:00am

  • Dry dock

    Access to training facilities in Payne Whitney Gymnasium is still limited, so Yale’s rowing teams have taken their workouts outside. James... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 10 2020 08:05am

  • Tear down that wall

    The landscape design for the new Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale (Tsai CITY) includes a softer edge for the adjacent courtyard of... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 6 2020 08:00am

  • Throwback Thursday: elected Elis

    We’ve been tracking Yale alums in elected office for a long time. This spread featuring alumni governors and members of Congress was published... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 5 2020 08:00am

  • Non-breaking news

    Meanwhile, in non-election, non-COVID news: it’s still fall in New Haven. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 4 2020 08:00am

  • Today's the day

    Guess what day it is? Americans, for information on how to vote today, go to vote.org. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 3 2020 07:57am

  • Mystery Monday: passing through

    Scores of students every day pass through the Noah Porter Gate and along the walk shown here. Who knows Yale’s official name for this pedestrian... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 2 2020 07:56am | Ico comments 2 comments

  • Some extra time

    This stone carving from the porch of Sheffield Hall is here to remind you to set your pendulum clocks back one hour tomorrow night. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 30 2020 08:54am

  • Throwback Thursday: Torre de Harkness

    A hundred years ago this fall, Harkness Tower was inching skyward, as this December 1920 cover photo shows. Note the warning sign in English and... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 29 2020 07:51am

  • Across the street

    After undergoing some renovation work this summer, the Old Art Gallery has emerged from behind scaffolding, restoring one of Yale’s most... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 28 2020 07:56am

  • Yonder window

    We’ve often wondered about this balcony in Saybrook College overlooking the corner of High and Elm Streets. Have any svelte Yalies ever... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 27 2020 08:29am

  • Mystery Monday: spooning

    Today’s mystery concerns this carving in Sterling Memorial Library’s International Room: what Yale tradition is depicted here? And... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 26 2020 08:45am | Ico comments 2 comments

  • Living color

    Hillhouse Avenue is looking autumnal. Have you seen the pedestrian bridges over the Farmington Canal Greenway? They were installed in 2010 to the... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 23 2020 07:57am

  • Throwback Thursday: Yalies of yore

    Missing Yale football this season? Here's a page from our archives featuring the team from 125 years ago. The 1895 squad finished 13–0–2... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 22 2020 08:27am

  • Autumn's palette

    It’s one of those gray fall days in New Haven. But we found some color on the Whitney Avenue side of Science Hill. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 21 2020 02:10pm

  • Be a trouper

    With no new shows to promote, the poster cases outside the University Theatre are being deployed for a public health message. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 20 2020 09:43am

  • Mystery Monday: round here

    You walked by this ornamented opening countless times if you went to Yale. Anyone remember where it is? Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 19 2020 08:03am | Ico comments 3 comments

  • Courtside

    With precautions in place, it’s possible to study in Sterling Memorial Library again. That includes one of our favorite retreats, the... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 16 2020 07:58am

  • United by a divider

    Can you still enjoy a meal with friends in a dining hall this semester? Yes, but with some precautions, as demonstrated in Silliman College recently... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 13 2020 07:50am