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  • The long way

    In keeping with custom, Monday’s commencement procession from Cross Campus to Old Campus wended its way onto the Green and around Center... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 25 2022 09:41am

  • Shutterbugs

    One of the best parts of being in the commencement procession is seeing family and friends of graduates along the route, jockeying for position to... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 24 2022 08:30am

  • Family affair

    Yale’s 321st commencement today looked a lot closer to normal than in the previous two years. Among the ten honorary degrees was a posthumous... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 23 2022 01:20pm

  • Rally 'round the flag

    You know it’s commencement/reunion season when the President’s House puts out the YALE banner. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 18 2022 07:44am

  • Better late then never

    Yale welcomed back the Class of 2020—and, in some schools, the Class of 2021—for a procession and ceremony on Saturday to celebrate... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 16 2022 08:05am

  • Double the fun

    That familiar blue-and-white tent can mean only one thing: 2022 commencement is coming. Actually, it can mean two things. Before the Class of 2022... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 10 2022 08:04am

  • Four days in May

    Four straight days of commencement ceremonies begin today as the architecture and nursing schools celebrate their graduates. Find out more about the... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 21 2021 08:42am

  • Throwback Thursday: postwar procession

    Who remembers Hewitt Quadrangle before the Beinecke Library was built? This image from our July 1946 cover shows the first peacetime commencement... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 20 2021 08:09am

  • What everyone is wearing this spring

    Graduating students have begun to acquire their caps and gowns for commencement this weekend. We spotted Danielle Harris ’21 posing for her... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 19 2021 07:46am

  • Platform committee

    They’re literally setting the stage for Yale’s 320th commencement. It won’t be the usual pomp and circumstance, but... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 12 2021 08:49am

  • Throwback Thursday: commencement in a tumultuous time

    Fifty years ago this week, Yale celebrated its 269th commencement, just weeks after the campus and New Haven were gripped by the May Day protests.... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 11 2020 09:31am

  • Rare fortitude

    Congratulations to the more than three thousand newly minted Yale alumni whose degrees were conferred yesterday via a video message from President... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 19 2020 08:11am

  • Happy few

    Yale’s online commencement kicks off at 11 AM Eastern time, but a small band of Yalies couldn’t bear the idea that there wouldn’t... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 18 2020 10:18am

  • Capping it all off

    We spied a graduation photo shoot on Cross Campus yesterday afternoon. Congratulations to all of this year’s graduates, whose degrees will be... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 15 2020 07:55am

  • Year of the woman

    When Yale awarded Gloria Steinem—“feminist and firebrand, icon and iconoclast,” above—an honorary degree today, she was one... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 20 2019 02:56pm

  • The stage is set

    The dais is up for Yale’s 318th commencement next Monday. Still to come: 15,000 folding chairs. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 14 2019 09:01am

  • Quick change

    Yesterday on Old Campus: 15,000 folding chairs. Today: one big tent. Alums, are you ready for reunions? Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 22 2018 10:10am

  • Bubbling over with pride

    Doctor of Nursing Practice graduates from the School of Nursing broke out the bubbles to celebrate Commencement today. Besides the 3,000-odd... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 21 2018 02:33pm | Ico comments 3 comments

  • Setting the scene

    The chairs are in place, and we’re almost ready for commencement on Monday. Alums, what’s your favorite memory from commencement at Yale? Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 18 2018 08:48am