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  • Widening the walk

    If you have reason to walk across the campus these days, construction workers are among the few people you'll run across. We found these guys at... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 27 2020 07:54am

  • Throwback Thursday: remember George & Harry's?

    Our March/April story on New Haven pizza prompted an alum to ask when George & Harry’s on Wall Street became Naples Pizza. The answer is... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 26 2020 07:58am

  • Silent spring

    Happy first day of spring! At least something on campus is open. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 19 2020 08:03am

  • Hiding in plain sight

    Surrounded by a construction zone, one of Yale's secret societies has become a little lax about the secrecy. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 18 2020 08:00am

  • Empty rooms

    Classes in most of Yale’s schools start up again today after spring break, but they’ll be meeting online through platforms such as Zoom... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 23 2020 08:20am

  • Keeping their distance

    Max Dewolf ’23 loaded a car with his belongings Saturday as students were sent home for the rest of the term. Yale College and the Graduate... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 16 2020 07:35am

  • Portrait of the architect

    The rich ornament of Yale’s early–twentieth century neo-gothic buildings includes the visages of the architects, craftsmen, and patrons... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 24 2020 08:49am

  • Glass house

    Here's a construction update from that old empty plaza behind the Becton Center, which will soon be home to the Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 25 2020 08:40am

  • Eli go bragh

    Happy St. Patrick’s Day! This gentleman is William Erigena Robinson, Class of 1841, 1842 Law, Yale’s first student from Ireland. He went... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 17 2020 07:54am

  • He's working on his dogtorate

    Bragging about your child the honor student is so 2010s. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 20 2020 07:54am

  • The long way

    Workers have begun converting another block of Wall Street into a pedestrian path. In the meantime, some pedestrians will get extra exercise on... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 11 2020 08:01am

  • Group effort

    Since Sol Lewitt left his wall drawings to Yale after his death in 2007—actually, they are instructions for wall drawings that anyone can... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 10 2020 08:25am

  • Responding to an outbreak

    Most Yale students are on spring break now, but concerns about COVID-19 have begun to affect life at the university. Administrators have asked that... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 9 2020 09:57am

  • Can't be too careful

    Today is Friday the 13th, which got us thinking about Yale superstitions, two of which are suggested by this photo. Depending on who's telling the... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 13 2020 08:02am

  • Happy birthday, by George!

    Happy 335th birthday to George Berkeley, the Anglo-Irish philosopher, bishop, and early benefactor of Yale. (Berkeley College, the Berkeley Divinity... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 12 2020 08:23am

  • Time and change

    Don’t forget to set your clocks forward this weekend! Our phones and many digital clocks reset themselves these days, but Yale’s big... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 6 2020 08:19am

  • Blowin' in the wind

    Time for another campus challenge: who knows where at Yale this weather vane can be found? Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 5 2020 07:48am

  • Really more of a semicolon, though

    Because our mission statement mandates that we “portray Yale in all its complexity,” we just wanted you to know that there was a giant... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 4 2020 08:33am

  • Fresh air

    With temperatures reaching the 50s yesterday, students took to the Cross Campus lawn to enjoy the sunshine. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 3 2020 08:21am