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August 2016

  • Oh, the places you’ll go

    A signpost promotes the Center for Language Study’s annual language fair on Beinecke Plaza today. The fair helps to acquaint students with the... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | August 30 2016 01:19pm

  • Land ho!

    Yale’s sailing teams had an attention-getting visual aid for their recruiting table on Cross Campus Friday. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | August 29 2016 07:50am

  • 2020 vision

    It’s move-in day for the Yale College Class of 2020! Upperclasspeople are out in force this morning to welcome the new arrivals, carry... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | August 26 2016 10:40am

  • Welcome grad students

    The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences welcomed more than 600 new students this morning at its annual matriculation ceremony in Sprague Hall. Dean... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | August 25 2016 11:32am

  • Cool

    School starts next week at the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, but for now Sage Boy is still in vacation mode. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | August 24 2016 08:02am

  • All ears

    A favorite architectural detail from the Hall of Graduate Studies: stonecarvers incorporated likenesses of some of some of the administrators and... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | August 23 2016 11:05am

  • Growth experience

    Classes may have been in recess at the Divinity School this summer, but the school’s community gardeners were still tending their plots. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | August 22 2016 09:31am

  • Ocean state exports

    Opening today at the Yale University Art Gallery: Art and Industry in Early America: Rhode Island Furniture from the Colonial and Early Federal... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | August 19 2016 10:12am

  • Feeding the meter is not required

    The New Haven Town Green District has been taking over parking spaces downtown to establish temporary outdoor dining spaces, like this one outside... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | August 18 2016 07:59am

  • The Peabody’s Broadway debut

    As part of its 150th anniversary celebration, the Peabody Museum of Natural History has just annexed a highly visible corner of campus. For the... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | August 17 2016 08:43am

  • Handsome Dan XVII, 2007–2016

    We’re sad to report that Sherman, the English bulldog better known by the title Handsome Dan XVII, died last week in Rhode Island at the age... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | August 16 2016 08:43am

  • Welcome

    We’ve always admired the front door of Swensen House, home of Berkeley’s head of college (or, before last spring, the master’s... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | August 15 2016 09:26am

  • Dress for success

    Ike Lee ’15 was one of 104 incoming first-year medical students who were fitted with a new fashion statement at the School of Medicine’s... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | August 12 2016 08:36am

  • Life of the mind

    I ain't got no body: above the door of the Starr Main Reference Room at Sterling Memorial Library, a couple of monkish scholars keep watch. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | August 11 2016 08:43am

  • New digs for grad students

    Workers have begun preparing the site of a former parking lot on Elm Street for the construction of a six-story building with retail space on the... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | August 10 2016 08:36am

  • See Yale first

    It is without a doubt the season for campus tours. One can encounter four or more tour groups on a single walk through central campus; one group was... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | August 9 2016 08:26am

  • Too soon?

    A little dinosaur-mortality humor from the Peabody Museum. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | August 8 2016 08:41am

  • Our changing skyline

    The west tower of Pauli Murray College—which will be just a few feet shorter than Harkness Tower—is looking finished in the middle, but... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | August 5 2016 08:54am

  • What would Saarinen say?

    Spotted in the courtyard of Ezra Stiles College: some housing in a more traditional style. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | August 4 2016 08:35am