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January 2019

  • Name that hall

    This portal is part of a building that has served Yale in many different ways for 125 years. Can you identify it? Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | January 30 2019 10:20am | <span class="comments_link"><a class="comments_link" href="/blog_posts/3047-name-that-hall?page=1#comments"><img src="/assets/design/ico_comments-6095ba73fed85da0e489aa3a72173d56.png" alt="Ico comments" /> 2 comments</a></span>

  • Comfy classic

    Those comfy chairs in the Haas Family Arts Library? They’re "Womb chairs” by architect Eero Saarinen ’34BFA, who designed them for... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | January 29 2019 10:44am

  • Oldest college daily is one year older

    Happy birthday to our colleagues at the Yale Daily News, which debuted on this day in 1878. (Thirteen years later, they had the good sense to launch... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | January 28 2019 10:05am

  • Art lovers

    Schoolchildren head for the Art Gallery just ahead of its 10 o’clock opening this morning. Unlike yesterday, when we got an inch and a half of... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | January 25 2019 10:22am

  • Tops in medicine

    The evening sun falls on the dome of Sterling Hall of Medicine. Built in 1924, Sterling was the beginning of a new campus for the medical school... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | January 24 2019 08:15am

  • Café underground

    Previous generations had Machine City, the subterranean oasis of vending machines between Sterling and Cross Campus Libraries. The modern equivalent... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | January 23 2019 08:24am

  • An ice day

    The temperature only made it to 10F yesterday, so the ice from Sunday’s storm is still holding fast to the trees on Old Campus. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | January 22 2019 08:20am

  • Bright side

    We’ve still got a lot of winter to endure, but the good news is that the days are getting longer—it's not completely dark at 5 pm... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | January 18 2019 08:48am

  • Here comes the sun

    You have to get up pretty early to see it, but the rising sun is precisely aligned with Chapel Street this time of year. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | January 17 2019 08:33am

  • Strumming on the old banjo

    Is that a banjo on the Cross Campus façade of Berkeley College? Indeed it is. Berkeley’s ornament features many totems of student life... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | January 16 2019 10:20am

  • Salvaged

    Just inside the glass façade of New Haven’s new Canal Dock Boathouse is a piece of Yale history: the entrance to the Adee Memorial... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | January 15 2019 12:14pm

  • Let’s go shopping

    A new semester begins today, which for Yale College students means it’s shopping period. Students typically choose most of their courses ahead... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | January 14 2019 09:56am

  • All they survey

    From their quarters on the eighth floor of 2 Whitney Avenue, the people who work in Yale’s Office of Facilities have a sweeping view of the... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | January 11 2019 10:43am

  • Things are looking up

    It’s the season for remarkable skies, like this view we got yesterday on High Street. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | January 10 2019 08:04am

  • Something in the air

    On Old Campus yesterday afternoon, the atmosphere was as gothic as the architecture. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | January 9 2019 07:37am

  • Reorganizing

    For decades, Yale's library has been divided between the Library of Congress system and the university’s own method of classification (which the... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | January 8 2019 10:35am

  • Progress on the Hill

    The new Yale Science Building is not scheduled for completion until this fall. But the exterior is beginning to come together. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | January 7 2019 09:49am

  • Water like a stone

    The fountain on Maya Lin’s Women’s Table is turned off for the winter, but the basin at its center is full of water—and a... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | January 4 2019 10:37am

  • Groundbreaking

    A peek over the construction fence this morning reveals the work being done on Hewitt Quadrangle to create the new Schwarzman Center. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | January 3 2019 10:22am