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  • Into Africa

    African art is now front and center at the Yale University Art Gallery. The museum recently reinstalled its growing African collection on the first... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 10 2017 11:41am

  • J is for January

    We’ve got five inches of snow on the ground and single-digit temperatures this morning. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 9 2017 08:36am

  • White Epiphany

    There aren’t many people around to witness the first snow of 2017. It was a light one, anyway. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 6 2017 10:41am

  • Twilight’s last gleaming

    Hewitt Quadrangle at 5 o’clock yesterday, just after sunset. The days are, slowly but surely, getting longer. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 5 2017 08:47am

  • Reflecting

    It’s been nice weather for ducks for the last couple of days. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 4 2017 08:39am

  • Resolution

    Goal for 2017: exercise with this kind of commitment. (Spotted above the entrance to Ray Tompkins House.) Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 3 2017 08:39am

  • Happy holidays!

    Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah from the New Haven Green! Our best wishes to all our readers for a happy new year! Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | December 24 2016 12:18pm

  • Till next year

    Finals ended yesterday afternoon, and most students are on their way to someplace else for winter break. Do you remember waiting for your ride at... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | December 22 2016 08:41am

  • How swiftly are ye gliding by

    Happy winter solstice! The setting sun touched Wrexham Tower yesterday afternoon on the second-shortest day of the year. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | December 21 2016 08:45am

  • A disturbance in the Force

    Just because you’ve got finals doesn’t mean you can’t take a short break for a light-saber duel on Cross Campus. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | December 20 2016 10:13am

  • Midnight oil

    It must be time for finals: the Davenport dining hall was filled with the studious just before midnight Thursday night. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | December 19 2016 08:10am

  • What to wear this season

    Fashion update: people are wearing a lot more clothes today. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | December 16 2016 12:44pm

  • Looking up

    Sometimes when we’re leaving the library, we’re so focused on getting through the security desk that we forget to look up at this... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | December 15 2016 08:21am

  • What a relief

    When art dealer and Miami Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria ’62 gave Yale an undisclosed amount to build the Jeffrey Loria Center for the History of... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | December 14 2016 08:48am

  • Time travel

    Downtown streets have had an olde-tyme feeling lately, as The Shops at Yale have been offering free horse-drawn carriage rides on weekends to... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | December 13 2016 08:36am

  • Everybody sing

    Soprano Addy Sterrett ’18MM sang a solo yesterday during the Messiah Sing-along, an annual collaboration of the Yale Symphony Orchestra... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | December 12 2016 08:24am

  • Crunch time

    Yale College classes end this afternoon, and a week-long reading period begins. Students will be looking for a spot like this one in the Sterling... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | December 9 2016 08:45am

  • Merry Moosemas

    Freshmen in Lawrance Hall have decked out their home for the holidays. That’s a moose head, in tribute to the mascot of Ezra Stiles College. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | December 8 2016 08:51am

  • Yale’s first casualty in World War II

    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