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  • Conveying a composer

    The music world celebrated the 150th anniversary of the birth of Charles Ives last fall, and a display of Ives-related artifacts from the Irving S.... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 18 2025 10:00pm

  • Orange you glad you came?

    On a cold winter day, that paprika-colored carpet in the library of Paul Rudolph Hall will warm you up from the eyes in. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 18 2025 11:08am

  • Snow on the pyramid

    Maren Hassinger's sculpture Monument (Pyramid) in the Art Gallery sculpture garden got the Frosted Mini Wheats treatment in Wednesday's... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 13 2025 10:58am

  • Mystery Monday: seal of approval

    The open book from Yale's seal, which features the Hebrew words Urim v’Thummim, appears frequently in Yale's architecture. Do you know... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 16 2025 10:00pm

  • Stationary bikes

    It's not ideal weather for bicycling these days. We've had another inch or two of snow since we took this photo in Branford's Linonia Court... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 12 2025 03:44pm

  • Throwback Thursday: Bulldog days

    Seventy-five years ago, in our March 1950 issue, we ran this photo of Levi Jackson ’50 at an event in New Haven. Jackson was Yale's first... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 12 2025 05:44am

  • Throwback Thursday: desktop publishing

    In our February 1975 issue, we featured birds-eye views of the desks of Yale faculty and staff, photographed by Mark Ellis. This modest secretary in... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 12 2025 05:00pm

  • Chill

    It's not quite Noguchi, but really any sculpture looks great with the Beinecke as a backdrop. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 11 2025 03:09am

  • A run in the park

    An overnight storm dropped four inches of snow on New Haven, but that didn't stop 3,000 people from participating in the annual Run for Refugees, a... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 10 2025 03:02am

  • Cloud server

    We walked straight into a Magritte painting on Hewitt Quadrangle the other day. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 7 2025 04:12am

  • Throwback Thursday: Black at Yale in 1915

    In our January 1970 issue, we published some memories of Yale by William Ashby (fourth from right in the second row in this 1915 photo of Yale's... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 5 2025 10:00pm

  • Winter white

    Hillhouse Avenue always looks good in snow. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 5 2025 03:40am

  • Camouflage

    Dog? What dog? We don't see any dog. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 3 2025 10:34pm

  • Mystery Monday: get out your handkerchief

    “For God, for Country, and for Yale” is officially nothing more than a song lyric, but it has served as an unofficial motto for the... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 2 2025 10:46pm | Ico comments 1 comment

  • A job well done

    On Wednesday evening, Yale celebrated the 21-year tenure of Kathrin Day Lassila ’81 (left) as editor of the Yale Alumni Magazine with a... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 31 2025 06:08am

  • Did Pigpen do this?

    Most of last week's snow has melted by now, but the world's dirtiest snowball is still on view on Old Campus. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 30 2025 07:25am

  • Harkness's little brother

    Bass Tower, which rises from the corner of Pauli Murray College, is 190 feet tall—26 deferential feet shorter than Harkness Tower. We got this... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 29 2025 04:23am

  • Before sunset

    Yesterday around quitting time, we caught the winter sun bathing Harkness Tower in golden light. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 28 2025 03:46am

  • Mystery Monday: points of light

    This one will be familiar to alums who remembered to look up on their way to class. Anyone know where we spotted this ornate chandelier? Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 27 2025 08:48am | Ico comments 2 comments