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  • Throwback Thursday: changes at Commons

    One hundred years ago this month, we reported on changes in Yale’s then-20-year-old Commons dining hall. Although “it is the same hall... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 9 2021 08:00am

  • Commons is back

    After nearly four years, Commons is now open for lunch again. It looks much the same, but some things have changed: there are now four serveries... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 7 2021 08:08am

  • Brown-bagging

    Commons is now open for lunch again, but before the official opening on Wednesday the dining hall offered grab-and-go meals for students on Tuesday... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 3 2021 08:00am

  • A new face on Grove Street

    Most of the scaffolding is down on the Grove Street side of Commons, so we can see the façade of the building’s new addition—part... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | December 12 2019 08:00am

  • 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

  • New addition

    The steel is in place for the addition to Commons on its Grove Street façade—part of renovations to create the Schwarzman Center. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 7 2019 10:05am

  • Inside Commons

    Part of the Grove Street façade of Commons has been peeled back to its brick innards in the renovation project to create the Schwarzman... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | December 20 2018 11:48am

  • On leave

    What’s missing from this picture? To prepare for construction of the Schwarzman Center, the cenotaph at the center of Yale’s World War I... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 27 2018 10:45am

  • Throwback Thursday: rethinking Commons in 1969

    Nearly 50 years before Yale launched a plan to transform Commons into a student center, architecture student Peter Hoyt ’70MArch had the same... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 12 2018 10:22am

  • Everything must go

    To prepare for the renovation of Commons, Yale sold most of the dining hall's furnishings in an online auction, and yesterday was pick-up day.... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 24 2018 09:01am

  • Nothing in Commons

    Commons is officially closed now as work begins on the transformation of the dining hall, its basement, and the adjacent Memorial Hall into the... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 27 2017 10:46am

  • Food for thought

    This week, Commons is serving up knowledge in lieu of lunch, as about 200 New Haven public school students display their entries in the City-Wide... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 17 2017 09:29am

  • Patio furniture

    Even the tables and chairs from Commons are out for spring break this week. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 23 2017 08:37am

  • Cookin’ in Commons

    Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis and his quintet headlined a two-day festival called “Jazz: A Celebration of America’s Sound” with a... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 13 2017 08:37am