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  • No blarney

    Happy St. Patrick’s Day! These shamrocks and harp, carved in stone at the Elm Street entrance to Berkeley College, are a tribute to Bishop... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 17 2015 08:18am

  • The great thaw

    Good morning, Science Hill! It's so good to see the grass again. We had kind of forgotten what it looked like.... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 16 2015 10:17am

  • The art of the field trip

    Yale’s students may be on spring break, but the learning continues for these schoolchildren at the Yale University Art Gallery.... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 13 2015 08:58am

  • The sound of silence

    Not everyone has left town for spring break; a few people are still haunting the Starr Reading Room and other parts of Sterling Memorial Library. But... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 11 2015 11:18am

  • Blue skies

    There’s always something beautiful to see where Yale meets the sky—especially a warming blue sky after a long winter.... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 10 2015 08:30am

  • Limited seating

    This Old Campus bench—like much of the campus—is still buried in snow today, but most students are off on spring break anyway. With... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 9 2015 08:52am

  • The best defense

    We don’t want to alarm anyone, but Skull and Bones appears to have built a moat. Reports that it is stocked with alligators have not been confirmed.... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 6 2015 09:27am

  • Stone-throwing is strictly prohibited

    If a Bass Library “weenie bin” is too claustrophobic for you, you could try studying at the School of Management’s new library, where... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 4 2015 08:57am

  • Master builder

    Happy Birthday to James Gamble Rogers, Class of 1889, who was born in Kentucky on this day in 1867. Rogers was the architect of eight Yale residential... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 3 2015 09:09am

  • Winter wonderland, part six

    Another weekend, another snowstorm: six inches fell on New Haven last night. Spring break starts Friday, not a moment too soon for those who have warmer... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 2 2015 08:35am

  • A room of one’s own

    When Cross Campus Library was transmogrified into Bass Library a few years ago, one feature of the old subterranean space was reimagined: the individual... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 27 2015 08:53am

  • Throwback Thursday: very old Heidelberg

    Twenty-five years ago, in our February 1990 issue, Randall Beach wrote about the Old Heidelberg, the “poor man’s Mory’s” that... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 26 2015 10:00am

  • Cold day, hot lunch

    Even when it’s only 12 degrees outside, you can find food al fresco on Cedar Street. Roger and Marisa Chang have been serving “Chinese... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 25 2015 08:33am

  • From the top

    The view from the penthouse lounge of The Study (the Chapel Street hotel some will remember as the Colony Inn) recently inspired students in... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 24 2015 08:36am

  • Winter wonderland, part five

    Yes, we got another snowstorm on Saturday and Sunday. But this time it came without the blizzard winds, so we could enjoy that frosted-tree look that... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 23 2015 08:25am

  • Mystery Monday: Yale pride

    What campus building is guarded by this fierce terra cotta lion and several of his friends? We’ll update this post with the answer tomorrow.... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 16 2015 12:08pm

  • Happy landing

    Whatever else you might think about Paul Rudolph Hall (aka the Art & Architecture Building), you have to admit it has one of the campus’s most... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 13 2015 09:52am

  • Canals to rails to trails

    Most alumni will remember this as a disused railroad line—and before that it was a nineteenth-century canal—but the Farmington Canal... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 12 2015 09:02am

  • Green monster

    A snow sculpture on the upper New Haven Green—perhaps the creators were working through their feelings about the season’s fourth major... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 11 2015 09:17am