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  • Twenty-four little hours

    What a difference a day makes: yesterday was gorgeous and sunny, as seen in this shot on Old Campus. Today, the university has canceled afternoon... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 7 2018 07:52am

  • Grand rounds

    We have a special fondness for the rotunda of the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, a classical interior with hints of art deco. It was dedicated in... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 6 2018 08:53am

  • Something’s up

    In the week before spring break, here’s a sign of hope on Old Campus. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 5 2018 10:12am

  • Wicked storm

    We’re braced for a nor’easter today. You know it’s going to be rough when they start breaking out the quaint New England weather... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 2 2018 08:44am

  • Throwback Thursday: in the swim

    Fifty years ago, in our March 1968 issue, we profiled swimmer Don Schollander ’68 on the eve of his second trip to the Olympic Games, where he... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 1 2018 06:50am

  • Under wraps

    One of the Costantino Nivola sculptures in Ezra Stiles College looked to be wearing a raincoat the other day. Head of college Stephen Pitti... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 28 2018 08:06am

  • Dogpile

    Despite the construction of two new residential colleges, overcrowding is still an issue in some parts of the campus. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 27 2018 08:42am

  • Harbinger

    Breaking news: witch hazel is in bloom on Cross Campus. Spring can’t be too far away. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 26 2018 08:27am

  • May Day remembered

    Students, alumni, and New Haven residents gathered in the JE Art Gallery Thursday for a talk on the 1970 May Day protests. Sam Chauncey ’57... Read on
    Jack Taperell ’18 | February 23 2018 02:45pm

  • Beat it

    The record warm weather yesterday (64 degrees) meant that this street drummer, who goes by the name Dizz Sticks, had plenty of passersby to... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 22 2018 10:03am

  • Outsider art

    New Haven artist Sara Hope Hill took over a couple of squares of sidewalk in front of the Art Gallery yesterday afternoon. With temperatures in the... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 21 2018 02:29pm

  • How we roll

    Now there’s one more way to get around the Elm City. Bike New Haven, a bicycle-rental program in which riders use a smartphone app to unlock... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 20 2018 09:34am

  • A good start

    On Old Campus, a short-attention-span igloo. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 19 2018 10:28am

  • Casualties

    The flag on Hewitt Quadrangle was at half-staff yesterday evening in recognition of the school-shooting victims in Parkland, Florida. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 16 2018 09:03am

  • Formal name

    Tomorrow night, first-year students will convene at the Omni Hotel for the First-Year Formal. Never heard of it? Recent alums will remember it as the... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 15 2018 10:37am

  • Overhead

    The limestone face of Sterling-Sheffield-Strathcona is as gray as a February New Haven sky, but there’s a colorful surprise in the ceilings of... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 14 2018 09:07am

  • Superfan

    More than a week after the Super Bowl, a Philadelphia Eagles fan in Berkeley College is still savoring the victory. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 13 2018 02:56pm

  • Last gleaming

    We liked the way the setting sun caught the cupola of Davenport College the other day. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 12 2018 09:11am

  • Making connections

    It’s easy to miss this stone carving hidden behind a tree on the Elm Street façade of Berkeley College. Rendered (inexplicably) in... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 9 2018 08:56am