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  • Secret garden

    The Old Campus is closed to the public right now because of a summer program for high school students, but we can still get a glimpse from Chapel... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 30 2019 08:41am

  • Creepy crawly

    Some guerrilla artists found an irresistible canvas in the pipe that emerges from the sidewalk on Whitney Avenue over the Farmington Canal line. A... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 29 2019 08:31am

  • A firm foundation

    As construction crews work on a new subterranean addition to Commons—part of the new Schwarzman Center—we get a rare look at the... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 26 2019 08:47am

  • Baskets of cheer

    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

  • Half a century of coeducation

    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

  • Calm before the storm

    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

  • Cool running

    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

  • Souvenirs from the moon

    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

  • Undersea, overhead

    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

  • Picture of lilies

    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 | Ico comments 1 comment

  • See Yale first

    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

  • When life gives you Lululemon

    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

  • A la cart

    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

  • Survivor

    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

  • Accommodating history

    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

  • Making herstory

    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

  • Brightening Bingham

    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

  • Hot time

    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

  • Yale and the Revolution: the war comes to New Haven

    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