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August 2025

  • Bored of education

    Spotted in the window of Urban Outfitters on Broadway this week. For those days when you're feeling more blasé than boola. Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | August 22 2025 07:00am

  • Throwback Thursday: conservative crooner

    Back in December 1968, we profiled a Yale junior who, on the tail end of the folk music boom, styled himself as a conservative folksinger. "I sing... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | August 19 2025 10:49pm

  • Hometown hero

    A statue of Yung Wing, Class of 1854, was moved over the summer from Sterling Library's Memorabilia Room to the exhibition corridor. Yung, later an... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | August 20 2025 01:47am

  • Everything's A-OK

    A sign outside Welch Hall welcomes first-years in Ezra Stiles College. The Old Campus residence hall assignments were reshuffled this year to better... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch</span> | August 19 2025 04:57am

  • Starting lineup

    Members of the Yale College Class of 2029 file onto Cross Campus for this year’s Opening Assembly. Alums may remember it as the Freshman... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | August 18 2025 07:17am

  • Look up

    An installation by artist Leo Villareal ’90 called Celestial Garden (Yale) has taken over the dome room in the Schwarzman Center through... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | August 15 2025 06:08am

  • Welcoming committee

    The Yale College Class of 2029 arrives on Sunday, and all over campus, people are making sure they'll feel welcome.  Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | August 14 2025 04:49am

  • Latitude and lassitude

    The Georgian courtyard of Davenport College feels more like Williamsburg than Boston in the current August swelter.  Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | August 13 2025 05:08am

  • Advertisements for the past

    In the hallway of Yale Station is a line of bulletin boards with locked glass doors—once assigned to organizations but largely abandoned today.... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | August 11 2025 08:00pm

  • Fall fashion

    The med school's MD Class of 2029 posed in front of Sterling Hall of Medicine Friday after receiving their white coats in a ceremony on the Harkness... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | August 11 2025 06:40am

  • Planning ahead

    A wool scarf around the neck does not seem that appealing on this August day, but if you're shopping for a New Haven winter, J. Press has schoolboy... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | August 8 2025 04:12am

  • Throwback Thursday: teachers lounge

    Our April 1954 cover featured the then-new faculty meeting room in Connecticut Hall. Yale's oldest building, which previously was used as a... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | August 7 2025 04:40am

  • In uniform

    We spotted this group of young visitors admiring The Women's Table at lunchtime today. Matching outfits are an effective way to keep up with... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | August 6 2025 10:53am

  • Let's put on a show

    The northwest corner of York and Crown has been cordoned off as the university begins demolition of five buildings to make way for a new Dramatic... Read on
    <span class="blog_post_author_unlinked">Mark Alden Branch ’86</span> | August 5 2025 04:50am