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  • Street eats

    The lunchtime array of food carts at the medical center stretches for a whole block of Cedar Street this time of year. What’s your favorite... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 1 2019 03:26pm

  • Where is this gate?

    Today we once again test your memory of campus landmarks. Who knows the location of this curvaceous iron gate? Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 31 2019 08:14am | Ico comments 2 comments

  • Secret garden

    The Old Campus is closed to the public right now because of a summer program for high school students, but we can still get a glimpse from Chapel... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 30 2019 08:41am

  • A firm foundation

    As construction crews work on a new subterranean addition to Commons—part of the new Schwarzman Center—we get a rare look at the... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 26 2019 08:47am

  • Calm before the storm

    Some cloud cover made the Sterling Library courtyard a pleasant place to pass the afternoon yesterday. By dinnertime, though, the heavens opened up... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 23 2019 08:53am

  • Cool running

    It was too hot to run outside in New Haven yesterday. But if you really need to get in your 5K, 25 laps around the Lanman Center track does the... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 22 2019 10:36am

  • Undersea, overhead

    Built at the Peabody Museum and first displayed in 1968, this model of a giant squid (Architeuthis dux) has loomed over the museum’s... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 18 2019 11:10am

  • Picture of lilies

    Another reason to visit the campus in the summer: a whole other set of flora, like these lilies outside Dow Hall on Grove Street. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 17 2019 09:29am | Ico comments 1 comment

  • See Yale first

    It must be peak campus tour season: we counted five separate groups on Cross Campus at lunchtime today. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 16 2019 02:18pm

  • A la cart

    If you get your lunch at the food carts on Sachem Street outside Ingalls Rink (and we highly recommend that you do), the tables outside Founders... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 12 2019 08:25am

  • Survivor

    The oldest standing building on the Yale campus, Connecticut Hall, was built 269 years ago. This white oak tree on the grounds of the Marsh... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 11 2019 02:14pm

  • Brightening Bingham

    Among the campus buildings getting some TLC this summer is Bingham Hall. Alums, what memories do you have of Bingham? Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 8 2019 07:50am

  • Hot time

    It’s headed for 90 degrees in New Haven today. But on Chapel Street, a few hardy souls are out in the noonday sun. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 28 2019 01:03pm

  • Floating flowers

    Summer—when the water lilies are blooming—is the best time to visit Mars Pond, the gray-water recycling reservoir at Kroon Hall. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 27 2019 08:31am

  • Crowning touch

    It often pays to look up from your books—or your phone—on the Yale campus. This splendid ceiling is in the Starr Reference Room at... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 26 2019 12:53pm

  • Summer rush

    The campus is bustling again this week as more summer programs kick in, including the National Student Leadership Conference, Yale Young Global... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 25 2019 10:08am

  • Bikes under cover

    Count on the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies to have the campus’s nicest bicycle racks. These are in the courtyard of Kroon Hall... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 24 2019 09:50am

  • Internal medicine

    The School of Medicine unveiled its newly renovated Cushing/Whitney Medical Library at an open house yesterday. Among the highlights: this new... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 21 2019 08:12am | Ico comments 1 comment

  • In a fog

    The view from the Sterling Library stacks this morning. Suddenly we’re hungry for pea soup. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 20 2019 09:58am