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Midshipman Forrest Simpson ’19 and Cadet Alex Tymchenko ’17 prepare to present a memorial wreath at a ceremony yesterday commemorating... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 7 2017 10:14am
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A plaque honoring pioneering physicist Edward Bouchet, Class of 1874, 1876PhD, has been installed on the side of Vanderbilt Hall. Placed by the... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 6 2017 10:05am
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With Washington’s Birthday transferred to the nearest Monday, February 22 now passes without a lot of notice. But for 60 years at Yale, the... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 22 2017 12:07pm
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Above the entrance to the Kiphuth Trophy Room in Payne Whitney Gymnasium is a portrait of the room’s namesake—legendary swimming coach... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 12 2017 08:49am
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On December 1, 1941, Ensign Edward S. Gosselin ’40S wrote home to his parents from the USS Arizona. “Mother & Dad, there is a... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | December 7 2016 08:07am
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On this date in 1716, the Yale Corporation voted to move the college—then known as the Collegiate School—from Saybrook to New Haven. The... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 17 2016 08:31am
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On a traffic signal box on Chapel Street, a photo mural reflects what once was across the street: Osborn Hall, the Yale classroom building that was... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 21 2016 08:44am
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As more and more academic resources go digital, Sterling Memorial Library still has a reminder of how it all started. This Albion hand press, built... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 6 2016 04:57am
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Happy Independence Day! In New Haven, it’s a day to honor Roger Sherman, the former mayor, senator, and Yale treasurer who signed all four of... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 4 2016 04:06am
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Throwback Thursday: fifty years ago this summer, workers spent three months installing 44 new bells in Harkness Tower to upgrade the existing chimes... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 9 2016 11:09am
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You’ll find Yale’s first microscope, a gorilla skeleton, dinosaur bones, and plenty of other wonderful artifacts in the Peabody... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 6 2016 08:50am
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Fifty years ago in our May 1966 issue,in an otherwise largely celebratory issue about urban renewal in New Haven, we featured Peter Countryman... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 3 2016 11:17am
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Before it was retrofitted into Branford and Saybrook College, Yale’s Memorial Quadrangle (1917) was the prototype for a new campus... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 19 2016 08:17am
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Forty years ago, in our February 1976 issue, John Tierney ’76 enlightened our readers on the rise of ultimate frisbee at Yale, reporting on... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 4 2016 08:36am
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In our January 17, 1936, issue, we reported on legendary swimming coach Bob Kiphuth’s latest innovation. Over his 42 years as coach, Yale amassed... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 28 2016 08:53am
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And you thought Garry Trudeau made all this up? Forty-five years ago, our January 1971 issue described for alumni the inner workings of a handful of... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 21 2016 08:54am
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Today would be the first day back to classes for students, but since it’s Martin Luther King’s birthday, classes will wait till... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 18 2016 11:13am
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As the Class of 2019 was finding its way around campus this week, we ran across this November 1965 issue of our magazine featuring interviews with 11... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 3 2015 09:00am
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Look what we found while cleaning the office. From 1991, it’s Yaleopoly, a time capsule of sorts with shout-outs to Demery’s, the Yale... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 25 2015 09:15am
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When you roam the campus looking for a new picture every day, your eye might fall on an inscription you’d never really processed before, like... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 19 2015 08:28am
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