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  • The first Earth Day

    Today is the 50th anniversary of the first Earth Day. Daphne Gemmill ’72MPH, who was a member of the Yale group Environmental Action in 1970... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 22 2020 07:12am

  • Throwback Thursday: remember George & Harry's?

    Our March/April story on New Haven pizza prompted an alum to ask when George & Harry’s on Wall Street became Naples Pizza. The answer is... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 26 2020 07:58am

  • Eli go bragh

    Happy St. Patrick’s Day! This gentleman is William Erigena Robinson, Class of 1841, 1842 Law, Yale’s first student from Ireland. He went... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 17 2020 07:54am

  • Can't be too careful

    Today is Friday the 13th, which got us thinking about Yale superstitions, two of which are suggested by this photo. Depending on who's telling the... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 13 2020 08:02am

  • Happy birthday, by George!

    Happy 335th birthday to George Berkeley, the Anglo-Irish philosopher, bishop, and early benefactor of Yale. (Berkeley College, the Berkeley Divinity... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 12 2020 08:23am

  • Snows of yesteryear

    We illustrated our March 1945 cover with a snowy campus scene. Seventy-five years later, we’re looking out today at a campus that hasn't seen... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 2 2020 10:19am

  • Happy half century, Becton!

    The Becton Center was dedicated 50 years ago today. Designed by Marcel Breuer, the building serves the School of Engineering and Applied Science.... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 21 2020 08:52am

  • Still the Oldest College Daily

    Happy Birthday to the Yale Daily News, which turns 142 today! We’re especially grateful to the News for founding the Yale Alumni... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 28 2020 08:36am

  • Memento

    If you visit the Yale Bands HQ in Hendrie Hall, you might run across this mellophone, autographed at the request of the members of the Yale... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 6 2020 08:46am

  • Big reveal

    Yale’s oldest building, Connecticut Hall, has emerged after months behind scaffolding for a window and masonry restoration project. If it... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 7 2019 08:35am

  • Everything alt is neu again

    Remember the Old Heidelberg, the bar and eatery in the basement of the Hotel Duncan? It closed in 1991 and was succeeded by a couple of Thai... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 16 2019 07:57am

  • Artful anniversary

    Yale has more than one big milestone to celebrate over the next year: besides the 50th anniversary of coeducation in the college, it's also the... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 1 2019 09:12am

  • Written in stone

    On Saturday, the university dedicated a commemorative stone on the Old Campus, just inside Phelps Gate, recognizing Yale's first women... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 23 2019 07:54am

  • Bygone buildings

    Above one of the portals of Pauli Murray College is a tribute to two Yale buildings that were demolished to build the new colleges. Alums, tell us... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 4 2019 10:00am

  • Half a century of coeducation

    Now on view in the memorabilia room at Sterling Memorial Library: “When the Walls Came Tumbling Down,” an exhibition marking the 50th... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 24 2019 08:06am

  • Souvenirs from the moon

    Fifty years ago tomorrow, the Apollo 11 astronauts landed on the moon. Two months later, Yale got a shipment of lunar rocks and dust collected on... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 19 2019 08:17am

  • Accommodating history

    Downtown New Haven’s newest hotel is named for a Yale pioneer. The Blake Hotel, near the campus at High and George Streets, honors Law School... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 10 2019 11:53am

  • Yale and the Revolution: the war comes to New Haven

    Two hundred and forty years ago today, British troops landed on both sides of New Haven Harbor. President Ezra Stiles, who had spotted the invading... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 5 2019 07:19am

  • Yale and the Revolution: group portrait

    Happy Independence Day! Besides educating four of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, Yale is the caretaker of the best known visual image... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 4 2019 07:40am