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  • Yale and the Revolution: a poet with Washington on his side

    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

  • Yale and the revolution: the Turtle

    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

  • Floating flowers

    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

  • Crowning touch

    It often pays to look up from your books—or your phone—on the Yale campus. This splendid ceiling is in the Starr Reference Room at... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 26 2019 12:53pm

  • Yale and the Revolution: spymaster

    America’s Independence Day falls this week, so all week we’ll be talking about Yale people and places that were part of the American... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 1 2019 10:20am

  • Summer rush

    The campus is bustling again this week as more summer programs kick in, including the National Student Leadership Conference, Yale Young Global... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 25 2019 10:08am

  • Bikes under cover

    Count on the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies to have the campus’s nicest bicycle racks. These are in the courtyard of Kroon Hall... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 24 2019 09:50am

  • Internal medicine

    The School of Medicine unveiled its newly renovated Cushing/Whitney Medical Library at an open house yesterday. Among the highlights: this new... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 21 2019 08:12am | Ico comments 1 comment

  • In a fog

    The view from the Sterling Library stacks this morning. Suddenly we’re hungry for pea soup. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 20 2019 09:58am

  • Where is it?

    Want to test your memory of the campus again? Where can one find this elaborately ornamented arch? Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 19 2019 10:34am | Ico comments 2 comments

  • Reforming Wall Street

    The job of turning Wall Street between College and York into a pedestrian path is well under way this summer. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 18 2019 09:05am

  • Seclusion

    Looking for peace and quiet on campus? You could do worse than this sylvan corner behind Hillhouse Avenue near the president’s house. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 17 2019 09:57am

  • Sitting pretty

    The School of Architecture’s annual exhibition of student work includes these projects from a class called, appropriately enough, The Chair.... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 14 2019 10:24am

  • Spokes people

    Spotted on Wall Street yesterday: police officers from all over the state getting trained on mountain bikes. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 13 2019 09:52am

  • Where is it?

    It’s time once again to test your mental maps of the campus. Who knows where this photo was taken? Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 12 2019 08:46am

  • True colors

    Center for British Art architect Louis Kahn once said of the building, "On a gray day it will look like a moth, on a sunny day like a butterfly."... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 11 2019 01:25pm

  • Detour

    With Hewitt Quadrangle dug up for Schwarzman Center construction and Wall Street in the process of being turned into a pedestrian lane, it takes... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 10 2019 01:36pm

  • New addition

    The steel is in place for the addition to Commons on its Grove Street façade—part of renovations to create the Schwarzman Center. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 7 2019 10:05am

  • D-Day remembered

    The American flag flies over Cross Campus today on the 75th anniversary of the Allied invasion of Normandy. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 6 2019 01:28pm