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  • A place for entrepreneurs

    What’s going up in the plaza behind Becton Center? A new two-story, glass-walled ovoid home for the Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 26 2019 12:53pm

  • Just call it Kline Tower

    Now that the biology department has moved into the new Yale Science Building, the 16-story Kline Biology Tower will be refitted for new tenants, the... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 20 2019 08:13am

  • Break room

    Last Tuesday was the grand opening of the new Yale Science Building, which took the place of Gibbs Laboratories on Science Hill. The... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 5 2019 08:29am

  • Home on the Hill

    Almost ready: workers are putting the final touches on the glass pavilion that connects Kline Biology Tower to the new Yale Science Building. The... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 8 2019 03:21pm

  • Top of the hill

    There’s still a bit of work to be done on the new Yale Science Building, which took the place of Gibbs Laboratories. But the redesigned... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 9 2019 09:52am

  • Sharp objects

    New arrivals in Yale who are pining for their desert homes can find solace at the Marsh Botanical Garden, where the Desert House includes hundreds... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 3 2019 10:33am

  • Fine crystal

    Since our office moved across campus, the Peabody Museum is now a splendid destination for a lunchtime walk. The spectacular mineral collection in... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 8 2019 11:22am

  • Souvenirs from the moon

    Fifty years ago tomorrow, the Apollo 11 astronauts landed on the moon. Two months later, Yale got a shipment of lunar rocks and dust collected on... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 19 2019 08:17am

  • 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

  • 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

  • Party with the dinosaurs

    The Peabody Museum welcomed all—including a good number of Yale reuniongoers—with free admission at its Community Day on Saturday.... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 3 2019 08:34am

  • Report from the Hill

    Progress on Science Hill: the new Yale Science Building, going up on the former site of Gibbs Laboratories, is now sporting a rooftop greenhouse... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 19 2019 10:41am

  • Progress on the Hill

    The new Yale Science Building is not scheduled for completion until this fall. But the exterior is beginning to come together. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 7 2019 09:49am

  • That’s just swale

    This may look like an ordinary sidewalk planter, but it’s actually part of a strategy to make New Haven greener. Sunk below street level, this... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 11 2018 09:07am

  • (Pre)historic occasion

    Why is this torosaurus smiling? Maybe he heard about the $160 million donation that will allow the Peabody Museum to renovate and expand its... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 29 2018 10:20am

  • Crisis on the Green

    There has been a highly visible police presence on the New Haven Green since last Wednesday, when dozens of people were made ill by synthetic... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 21 2018 08:17am

  • Making progress

    Here’s a progress shot of Yale’s new science building, slated for completion in the fall of 2019. In the foreground, the Science Hill... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 13 2018 10:30am

  • Under way

    A new skylight on Becton Plaza is visible evidence of the new home for the Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale (Tsai CITY), which is being... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 4 2018 10:37am

  • Clear signs of progress

    We’re getting our first glimpses of the glassy façade of the new science building. The building is scheduled for completion by the fall... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 9 2018 09:04am