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  • No appointment necessary

    Students lined up on Cross Campus yesterday to get their bivalent COVID-19 vaccine from the medical school's Community Health Care Van. Yale is... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 11 2022 08:00am

  • Tents situation

    In the third year of COVID, the campus is still dotted with tents where people can get together outdoors, like this one in the courtyard of the... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 14 2022 08:00am

  • Self-serve

    With regular COVID testing no longer required for asymptomatic students, those transparent testing booths are now a thing of the past. Now people... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 2 2022 08:51am

  • Another language

    For those of us at Yale who are old enough to remember hauling ourselves over to the Language Lab in Rosenfeld Hall to practice our vocabulary by... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 11 2022 08:07am

  • Same pandemic, different year

    Yale College students began moving in last Friday, and classes—albeit remote ones—start next week. McClellan Hall on Old Campus has been... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 21 2022 08:20am

  • Obedience

    Yale is pressing its biggest celebrities into service for its public health campaign. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 14 2022 08:19am

  • Under the big top

    Life in the pandemic: seeing tents on campus used to mean there was a reunion or a commencement coming up. But structures like this one in the... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 5 2021 09:23am

  • The COVID two-step

    There's a new dance rehearsal space on the lower level of the Schwarzman Center, but for the time being, it’s been pressed into service as a... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 12 2021 08:25am

  • New year, new rules

    Classes begin in Yale College and the Graduate School today—in person for the first time since March 2020. Students, faculty, and staff are... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 1 2021 07:56am

  • Daily bread

    Dwight Chapel's primary function is spiritual nourishment, but right now it's being used for feeding bellies. A few dozen students who have come to... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 11 2021 09:14am

  • Masked reunion

    Like many Yale employees, we at the alumni magazine began working regularly in the office again this week—on a limited basis. At the same... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 6 2021 08:20am

  • A spike in activity

    This is one of seven spikeball games we saw in progress on our walk around campus yesterday. Apparently it’s the perfect pastime when spring... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 25 2021 08:03am

  • Pandemiversary

    A year ago today, the university was adjusting to the fact that classes would be going online, that students would not be returning from spring... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 11 2021 08:00am

  • Running in place

    Students are in the last stage of quarantine until March 1, which means they still can’t leave the campus. So runners accustomed to jogs... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 25 2021 11:26am

  • When the play's not the thing

    Yale’s theaters are still dark, so the Yale Rep is using its poster cases to promote good pandemic practices with (slightly altered) quotes... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 24 2021 07:58am

  • Sandwich or swab?

    Dwight Hall has been pressed into service this year as both a COVID-19 testing site and a spot for distributing meals to Old Campus residents during... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 9 2021 08:50am

  • Where do we start?

    As the Yale Daily News reported this weekend, the university has decided to house first-year students in their residential colleges next fall... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 12 2021 07:55am

  • Six feet over

    Sage Boy always stays more than six feet away from everybody. But you can’t be too careful. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 8 2021 07:56am

  • Hang in there

    The second wave of coronavirus infections continues to plague Connecticut, but there is hope: more than 2 percent of the state's citizens have now... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 6 2021 08:18am