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  • Cloud server

    We walked straight into a Magritte painting on Hewitt Quadrangle the other day. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 7 2025 04:12am

  • Throwback Thursday: Black at Yale in 1915

    In our January 1970 issue, we published some memories of Yale by William Ashby (fourth from right in the second row in this 1915 photo of Yale's... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 5 2025 10:00pm

  • Winter white

    Hillhouse Avenue always looks good in snow. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 5 2025 03:40am

  • Camouflage

    Dog? What dog? We don't see any dog. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 3 2025 10:34pm

  • Mystery Monday: get out your handkerchief

    “For God, for Country, and for Yale” is officially nothing more than a song lyric, but it has served as an unofficial motto for the... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 2 2025 10:46pm | Ico comments 1 comment

  • A job well done

    On Wednesday evening, Yale celebrated the 21-year tenure of Kathrin Day Lassila ’81 (left) as editor of the Yale Alumni Magazine with a... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 31 2025 06:08am

  • Did Pigpen do this?

    Most of last week's snow has melted by now, but the world's dirtiest snowball is still on view on Old Campus. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 30 2025 07:25am

  • Harkness's little brother

    Bass Tower, which rises from the corner of Pauli Murray College, is 190 feet tall—26 deferential feet shorter than Harkness Tower. We got this... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 29 2025 04:23am

  • Before sunset

    Yesterday around quitting time, we caught the winter sun bathing Harkness Tower in golden light. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 28 2025 03:46am

  • Mystery Monday: points of light

    This one will be familiar to alums who remembered to look up on their way to class. Anyone know where we spotted this ornate chandelier? Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 27 2025 08:48am | Ico comments 2 comments

  • Big dig

    We'd like to say that the new buildings of the Upper Science Hill Complex are going up, but so far they're mostly going down. Excavation work has... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 24 2025 04:12am

  • Throwback Thursday: out for blood

    By February 1942, when this photo appeared in our magazine, Yale had been transformed by America's entry into World War II. The image shows students... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 23 2025 04:22am

  • Staying warm

    With temperatures in the teens yesterday, Steep café on Science Hill was a good place to get comfortable with a hot cup of coffee or tea. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 22 2025 03:42am

  • Little friend

    We got just a couple of inches of snow over the weekend, enough for someone to make a diminutive snowman on an Old Campus bench. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 21 2025 03:28am

  • Rudolph at Tuskegee

    Now on view at the Yale Architecture Gallery: The Tuskegee Chapel: Paul Rudolph X Fry & Welch, an exhibition about the chapel Rudolph... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 17 2025 04:34am

  • Throwback Thursday: what might have been

    125 years ago this month, in our January 31, 1900, edition, we revealed plans for Yale's Bicentennial buildings—Commons, Woolsey Hall... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 15 2025 10:00pm

  • Bundle up

    It's cold and windy on campus today. Those of us without fur need lots of layers. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 15 2025 08:08am

  • Mystery Monday: eyes up

    The building should be familiar to many of you, but the perspective is a little unusual. Where on campus are we? Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 13 2025 04:13am | Ico comments 2 comments

  • It's all in how you see it

    On view at the Peabody Museum: Mind/Matter: The Neuroscience of Perception, Attention, and Memory, the museum's first temporary exhibit since... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 10 2025 04:31am