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  • Mystery Monday: bonding experience

    You don’t have to be a chemist to tell us where this stone carving is found or what it represents, but it might help. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 29 2021 08:18am | Ico comments 2 comments

  • Hang in there

    The second wave of coronavirus infections continues to plague Connecticut, but there is hope: more than 2 percent of the state's citizens have now... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 6 2021 08:18am

  • Amazing Grace

    Today is the birthday of Grace Murray Hopper ’34PhD (1906–1992), mathematician, computer pioneer, rear admiral, and—since... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | December 9 2020 08:41am

  • Recycled

    Yale’s nuclear particle accelerator was removed in 2015, but a piece of it remains in front of its former home, Wright Laboratory. Artist... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 30 2020 07:52am

  • Get the message?

    The campus bulletin boards are now doubling as billboards to spread the word on preventing COVID-19. Other nearby boards read “WEAR FACE... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 16 2020 08:00am

  • Throwback Thursday: sex talk

    Fifty years ago this week, in 1970, students arriving on campus for the fall semester were greeted with a 64-page pamphlet called Sex and the Yale... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 17 2020 07:55am | Ico comments 1 comment

  • Innovate here

    The Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale—which styles itself Tsai CITY—has moved in to its new glass-walled pavilion behind the... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 9 2020 08:00am

  • Good chemistry

    Happy 241st birthday (tomorrow) to Benjamin Silliman, Sr., a noted chemist and Yale’s first science professor. His statue, sculpted by... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 7 2020 08:13am

  • Pollinator's paradise

    Yale maintains a few spots on campus as "urban meadows" like this one at Farnam Memorial Gardens, left unmowed for part of the year to encourage... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 21 2020 07:54am

  • New era for the Peabody

    Like most of the campus, the Peabody Museum has been closed to visitors since March. And it's going to stay that way for the next couple of years:... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 14 2020 08:55am

  • White coats, black lives

    Around 300 physicians and other health care workers knelt in a moment of silence in front of Sterling Hall of Medicine on Friday at a White Coats... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 8 2020 08:05am

  • Throwback Thursday: where there's smoke

    In 1957, a magazine editor might still put a cancer researcher smoking a cigarette on the cover and not see the irony. But a  sharp-eyed... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 4 2020 07:40am

  • Front lines

    We want to salute all the people at Yale New Haven Medical Center—the hospital and the Schools of Medicine, Nursing, and Public... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 1 2020 08:50am

  • Glass house

    Here's a construction update from that old empty plaza behind the Becton Center, which will soon be home to the Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 25 2020 08:40am

  • He's working on his dogtorate

    Bragging about your child the honor student is so 2010s. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 20 2020 07:54am

  • Responding to an outbreak

    Most Yale students are on spring break now, but concerns about COVID-19 have begun to affect life at the university. Administrators have asked that... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 9 2020 09:57am

  • Really more of a semicolon, though

    Because our mission statement mandates that we “portray Yale in all its complexity,” we just wanted you to know that there was a giant... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 4 2020 08:33am

  • Disappearing dinosaur

    The Peabody Museum’s Great Hall is closed, but you can watch the disassembly of its Brontosaurus from the museum's second-floor discovery... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 26 2020 08:32am

  • Greek to us

    These inspiring words are above the main entrance to the Sterling Hall of Medicine. Who can tell us what they mean? (We googled it, but we’re... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 31 2020 02:05pm