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  • Safe house

    At first we thought famed spy Nathan Hale was going undercover. But it turns out he's just being protected from construction work next door at... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 7 2025 04:27am

  • Coffee to go

    Our social media calendar tells us it's International Coffee Day. We saw these revelers celebrating at the Jitter Bus, which has been keeping Yalies... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 30 2025 09:01am

  • Long run

    Happy 100th to the David Geffen School of Drama! The school, which began in 1925 as a department of the School of Fine Arts, threw a party for... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 30 2025 04:58am

  • Mystery Monday: up in the air

    Scan the campus skyline of your memory and see if you can recall where this Georgian cupola is located.  Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 29 2025 05:37am

  • Autumn leaves

    In the first week of fall, the campus is still more green than not, but the turning has begun.   Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 25 2025 05:34am

  • Getting across

    Between classes, you have to join the crowd if you want to cross Elm Street at High.  Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 24 2025 11:41am

  • Mystery Monday: We're fans of these vaults

    We think this might be a tough one—not because it doesn't look familiar, but because it looks like a lot of ceilings at Yale. This is one a... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 22 2025 05:55am | Ico comments 2 comments

  • Throwback Thursday: walking the walk

    A hundred years ago, on our October 23, 1925, cover, we featured students walking between classes on Hillhouse Avenue. The view is not that... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 18 2025 01:29am

  • Coming into view

    As the demolition of Helen Hadley Hall nears completion, the building at 17 Hillhouse is now visible from Temple Street. Formerly home to Yale... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 17 2025 05:28am

  • It's a breeze

    It may be fall on the academic calendar, but it's still summer in New Haven. Students in JE are employing the college's sustainable passive cooling... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 16 2025 05:57am

  • If a tree falls in the courtyard . . .

    A sad day in Berkeley College: On Monday, workers took down a large oak tree in the college's south court. The tree was deemed unsafe after a large... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 10 2025 08:44am

  • Mystery Monday: academic altercation

    Today's mystery is for Yale history buffs. What contentious episode from the university's past is portrayed in this stone carving in the nave of... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 8 2025 07:15am | Ico comments 2 comments

  • Leave the wheels outside

    This will be a noticeable change. The area around the entrance to Commons had become a veritable parking lot for scooters and boards at... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 5 2025 12:57am

  • Made in the shade

    The temperatures have been blessedly mild this week, but tables in the shadow of the Beinecke were still much in demand in the noonday sun yesterday. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 4 2025 05:03am

  • In memoriam

    Former residents of Davenport College will remember this plaque near the college's Park Street gate, memorializing a favorite campus watering hole... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 3 2025 05:07am

  • Bachelor's degree required

    Last fall, master's and doctoral students got a new dedicated study space. The Graduate Study Room, on the second floor of Sterling Memorial... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 2 2025 05:18am

  • That's more like it

    We enjoy the relative peace and quiet of summer in New Haven, but when the campus is full of students again, it feels as if all is right in the... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 28 2025 04:43am

  • Yield

    Crop report from Pauli Murray College: several blossoms, one good-sized pumpkin. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 26 2025 04:05am

  • 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
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 20 2025 01:47am