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  • Innovate here

    The Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale—which styles itself Tsai CITY—has moved in to its new glass-walled pavilion behind the... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 9 2020 08:00am

  • Walk this way

    The Yale University Art Gallery hasn’t yet announced when it will reopen, but they’ve been getting ready for guests. Arrows at the... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 8 2020 08:10am

  • Sign of the times

    All Yale undergraduates—and graduate and professional students who live in campus housing—are being tested twice a week for COVID-19.... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 4 2020 07:57am

  • Go outside and play

    These are not easy times for singers and players of wind instruments. But these three trombone students from the School of Music (left to right: Ben... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 3 2020 07:58am

  • Outsiders

    New this semester: lots more tables and chairs all over campus provide ways to socialize outdoors. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 2 2020 08:14am

  • Cornering the market

    Claire’s is back! After closing for the pandemic and renovations, the noted vegetarian restaurant reopened on August 21. Those with long... Read on
    Mark Branch ’86 | September 1 2020 07:53am

  • Jacket required

    Congratulations to the School of Medicine’s Class of 2024! The first-year students received their white coats on Friday at a... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 31 2020 09:08am

  • Signs of life

    This term will have its challenges. But it is so nice to see people on this lawn again. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 28 2020 07:55am

  • Legal avenue

    Just in time for the new semester, the conversion of Wall Street in front of the Sterling Law Building to a pedestrian walkway is now complete. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 27 2020 08:02am

  • A class apart

    For the first time since World War II—when the Old Campus housed Army trainees—there will be no first-year students on Yale’s... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 26 2020 07:47am

  • Welcome! Go to your room.

    Today is the second day of a week-long move-in process for Yale College students. Each student has a prearranged dropoff time, after which... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 25 2020 08:00am

  • Mystery Monday: open-and-shut case

    This week’s mystery: where on campus can you find windows with these distinctive shutters? Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 24 2020 08:17am | Ico comments 2 comments

  • Scully's centennial

    Today is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Vincent Scully Jr. ’40, ’49PhD, the renowned Yale professor and art historian, who died... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 21 2020 07:52am | Ico comments 4 comments

  • Role model

    Handsome Dan is helping teach the Yale community how to ride the shuttle in the time of coronavirus. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 20 2020 08:40am

  • Respite

    It’s cool and rainy today—a nice break from the heat for those of us who can’t escape to the mountains in August. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 19 2020 01:48pm

  • Freewheeling

    As of this summer, there is now a skateboard park within rolling distance of campus. The assembly of ramps is in Scantlebury Park, near the Yale... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 18 2020 08:02am

  • Mystery Monday: court is in session

    Today’s mystery: where on campus can you find these squash rackets carved in stone? Read on
    Mark Branch ’86 | August 17 2020 08:00am | Ico comments 2 comments

  • Stories in glass

    Artist Barbara Earl Thomas has been commissioned to create new stained glass panes for the windows of the Grace Hopper College dining hall. The new... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 14 2020 07:39am

  • War's end

    Saturday is VJ Day, the 75th anniversary of the Japanese surrender that ended World War II. As the wartime version of the Yale Daily News... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 13 2020 07:53am