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  • Open-door policy?

    Skull and Bones doesn’t send out a lot of press releases, so we had to learn from this sign that they are improving accessibility. Within... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 9 2021 07:51am

  • Art, in person

    What a pleasure to wander the galleries of the Center for British Art again! The museum is now open to visitors on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays.... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 8 2021 08:07am

  • Mystery Monday: big date

    Do you ever wish Yale’s founders had gotten their act together just two years sooner? 1699 sounds so much older than 1701. Anyway, can you... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 7 2021 07:51am | Ico comments 4 comments

  • You're gonna need a bigger boat

    If your weekend plans include fishing, here’s some inspiration: this xiphactinus skeleton from the Peabody Museum hangs outside the O. C.... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 4 2021 08:09am

  • End of a dry spell

    Another scene from a campus comeback: Mars Pond, the gray water–recycling pool at the environment school’s Kroon Hall, is operating... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 3 2021 08:48am

  • Pathbreakers

    Planners call them desire paths: those improvised trails through grass or landscaping that reveal where pedestrians really want to go. This one... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 2 2021 08:50am

  • Spring water

    Cross Campus always feels a little more alive when the Women’s Table fountain is up and running. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 1 2021 08:10am

  • Green living

    Commencement has come and gone, but Cross Campus was still populated with a few people enjoying the sun yesterday afternoon. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 28 2021 08:28am

  • Lazy, hazy, crazy

    Another commencement is in the books. With reunions happening online this year, the campus is already settling in to the relative quiet of summer in... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 25 2021 09:30am | Ico comments 1 comment

  • Mystery Monday: historical marker

    Today’s question: where on campus can you find this marker honoring Josiah Willard Gibbs, the pioneer of thermodynamics that Einstein called... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 24 2021 07:39am | Ico comments 1 comment

  • Four days in May

    Four straight days of commencement ceremonies begin today as the architecture and nursing schools celebrate their graduates. Find out more about the... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 21 2021 08:42am

  • Throwback Thursday: postwar procession

    Who remembers Hewitt Quadrangle before the Beinecke Library was built? This image from our July 1946 cover shows the first peacetime commencement... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 20 2021 08:09am

  • What everyone is wearing this spring

    Graduating students have begun to acquire their caps and gowns for commencement this weekend. We spotted Danielle Harris ’21 posing for her... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 19 2021 07:46am

  • Getting together

    Seeing people gathered together on campus was once commonplace; these days it’s surprising—and heartening. These students from the... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 18 2021 08:07am

  • Mystery Monday: on the waterfront

    Okay, so it's no Lake Carnegie, but there is a modest body of water on the Yale campus. Who knows where to find it? Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 17 2021 07:51am | Ico comments 1 comment

  • Final countdown

    Final exams in Yale College begin today. We spotted students studying in Sterling Memorial Library's Periodical Reading Room. Alums, where did you... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 14 2021 09:00am

  • View from the top

    The courtyard of the Humanities Quadrangle—formerly the Hall of Graduate Studies—is placidly green now, but not too long ago it was a... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 13 2021 08:03am

  • Platform committee

    They’re literally setting the stage for Yale’s 320th commencement. It won’t be the usual pomp and circumstance, but... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 12 2021 08:49am

  • Take a walk

    High Street between Wall and Grove is now open to pedestrians, completing the conversion of four blocks of campus streets to walkways. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 11 2021 07:58am