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  • Golden days

    Alongside the Farmington Canal Trail at Hillhouse Avenue, forsythia blooms greet cyclists and runners. (That’s the Malone Engineering Center at... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 28 2015 08:42am

  • Living color

    The last day of classes in Yale College on Friday coincided with the Hindu Students Council’s celebration of Holi. Students gathered on the lawn... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 27 2015 08:34am

  • In bloom

    Today is the last day of classes in Yale College: the beginning of an annual struggle between studying for finals and enjoying the long-awaited New... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 24 2015 09:12am

  • Wet Willie

    “The quality of mercy is not strain’d; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath.” Happy 451st birthday to... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 23 2015 08:38am

  • Artistic Stiles

    A new addition to the Ezra Stiles College common room—a mural called Rise—was unveiled yesterday at a reception with the artist, Odili... Read on
    Eric Stern ’15 | April 22 2015 08:32am

  • Welcome committee

    Prospective Yalies in town for Bulldog Days have been greeted with gray skies, but the daffodils outside the Art Gallery are doing their part.... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 21 2015 08:29am

  • Up in the air

    Metaphorically speaking, a third-year law student has plenty to juggle this time of year, but Adam Adler ’15JD found time for the real thing on a... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 20 2015 08:30am

  • Spring sing

    With temperatures in the 60s, students are starting to emerge from their rooms. We promise that we happened upon this group on the Old Campus naturally;... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 17 2015 09:12am

  • Throwback Thursday: inside Connecticut Hall

    Nathan Hale slept here, as did countless other Yale students from 1750 until 1953, when Connecticut Hall was renovated as office, study, and meeting... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 16 2015 08:15am

  • Farm fresh pizza

    Another sure sign of spring: last Friday, the Yale Sustainable Food Program fired up the brick pizza oven at the Yale Farm on Edwards Street. Students... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 15 2015 10:05am

  • Flowers to go

    Sunday was our first warm, sunny spring day, with the sidewalks and courtyards suddenly full of people. A day later, we spotted a Yale Grounds... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 14 2015 08:22am

  • Slide show

    The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library became the canvas for a student–curated installation this weekend that celebrated research across the... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 13 2015 08:39am

  • Sitting in

    Students from the group Fossil Free Yale staged a sit-in at Woodbridge Hall yesterday morning to demand that the university consider selling its... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 10 2015 08:19am

  • Throwback Thursday: the campus awakes

    Fifty years ago, in our April 1965 issue, we reported for the first time on student activism at Yale—a two-week-long protest over the... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 9 2015 08:15am

  • Remembrance

    Tomorrow is the 150th anniversary of Lee’s surrender to Grant at Appamattox, which ended the American Civil War. Yale’s memorial to its... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 8 2015 08:30am

  • A call to arms

    Posters went up around the campus yesterday promoting the effort to name Yale’s new residential colleges “after facets of the Yale community... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 7 2015 10:20am

  • Way down

    The restored nave of Sterling Memorial Library, glimpsed from the stairway that leads to the subterranean Bass Library. This stair was built in 2007 as... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 6 2015 08:30am

  • Faith and fire

    To prepare for Passover, Jewish law requires that homes be rid of chametz—foods made from leavened grains. At the Slifka Center for Jewish Life... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 3 2015 10:32am

  • Throwback Thursday: portrait of the CIO as a young man

    We reported last week that chief investment officer David Swensen ’80PhD is getting a tower named after him in recognition of his stewardship of... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 2 2015 08:26am