Staff members name their favorite campus green spaces

It’s Your Yale is pleased to report that 49 staff members sent in the name and/or whereabouts of their favorite green spaces on campus. Here are the top three green spaces based on the number of entries that came in for each. The list below is presented in the order that the entries were submitted. The winners of the drawing for three prizes are: Sharon Anderson, Yale Health; Susan Butts, Peabody Museum; and Robert DeSanto, Development. Congratulations to these winners and “thank you” to all who participated.

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Staff members picked these green spaces as their favorite on campus:
 

• Jan Zulkeski
  Genetics/Yale Cancer Center     
  The Rose Garden at Sterling Hall of Medicine
• Mark Lacy
  Yale Hospitality
  Pierson Courtyard
• Eric Traester         
  Security       
  The lawn space where former President Taft’s house used to sit. It is between the Observatory & Bett’s House.
• Daniel DiMaio        
  Genetics       
  The Rose Garden in the Sterling Hall of Medicine
• Sarah Nikkel          
  Office of Development      
  Yale Farm
• Kathleen Martin    
  Cardiology  
  Old Campus
• Alex Glidden          
  Development          
  The courtyard in Sterling memorial library
• Marta Goldman
  Development - Reunion Giving  
  I love the Yale Farm and hill behind the Planetarium! It’s a beautiful space and a pleasure to work with the student interns.
• James Fullton       
  Yale Facilities Planning & Construction
  Jonathan Edwards College courtyard, especially when the tulips are in bloom!
• Jeff Hughes
  Facilities      
  Farnham Gardens—very few people visit there.
• Lindsey Fraczkiewicz
  YCCI
  Park at Washington Ave and Cedar Street on Medical Campus
• Juan Carmona      
  Clinical Trials Office          
  Marsh Botanical Garden
• Lisa Dubois
  School of Forestry and Environmental Science
  The Yale Community Forest Garden located between Sage Hall and Kroon Hall.
• Kate Gustavson   
  AYA  
  Kroon Hall Lily Pad basin
• Ken Hajducky       
  Facilities      
  Farnum Garden
• Alan Hopkins         
  ITS    
  The grassy hill up from the Humphrey-Whitney bypass next to the Class of 1954 Environmental Science Center
• Robert DeSanto    
  Development          
  Healing Garden at Smilow (if that’s considered on campus). If not I’d say the JE courtyard in spring.
• Jessica Brevard  
  Yale Hospitality   
  Greenberg Conference Center
• Susan Butts
  Peabody Museuem
  Farnum Gardens!
• Abigail Storch       
  Divinity         
  The Divinity Quadrangle!
• Hana Omiya
  Yale-China Association   
  Yale Observatory and field above the Yale Sustainable Farm
• Brenda Naegel      
  Internal Communications 
  The Yale Far
• Sharon Anderson 
  Yale Health Member Services Department      
  The Yale garden on Edwards Street! It brightens my day and makes the hill easier to climb!
• Georgios Bouras 
  School of medicine/ Cardiology department    
  Hillhouse
• Olga Levine
  Budget Office          
  Divinity Sterling Quad
• Paula Zyats
  Library Preservation         
  The courtyard of the Hall of Graduate Studies
• Christina Riley      
  FES  
  My favorite green space is the 3rd floor of Kroon Hall (the Knob). It’s just a gorgeous space!
• Leisa Strohmaier
  Cellular & Molecular Physiology
  The Rose Garden at Yale School of Medicine
• Kelly Edwards         
  YSPH
  My favorite spot is the walkway behind the Yale Cabaret. I always feel transported to another place.
• Joann DelVecchio
  Statistics and Data Science         
  The back and side yard of 24 Hillhouse. On a good day the rabbits are out playing!
• Anonymous
  Sterling Divinity Quad
• Christina Drexler  
  Yale College
  Robert Frost was right, the Branford courtyard is truly the most beautiful courtyard. It’s quite admirable during any season.
• Sarath Kraus          
  Business Operation
  West Campus
• Constance Carroll
  Psychiatry    
  The area at the end of Hillhouse on the hill coming down from Beinecke with the large outdoor sculpture at the foot of hill
• Denise Zielonka     
  Internal Medicine, Coding and Billing 
  Old Campus/Harkness Towe
• Kathy Gerolami     
  Surgery         
  There is a courtyard behind Sterling Hall, where the day care kids play.
• Quetcy Rivas Maldonado
  Yale F&ES Admissions Office      
  F&ES courtyard areas—especially when the trees are in bloom
• Dorothy Roy           
  YM/Coding and Billing      
  I love walking to the courtyard 358 College Street.
• Julie K. Cohen        
  F&ES 
  Pond by Kroon Hall
• Heidi Herrick          
  Pediatrics     
  Under the three European beech trees in Farnham Gardens
• Terri Stenquist      
  RIA    
  My husband and I worked on opposite sides of the New Haven Green when we were dating 28 years ago and we would meet there for lunch.
• Ed Mockus  
  Athletics        
  Kenney Center Rooftop Garden and Patio—birds-eye-view overlooking the nearly 92 acres of athletic fields and facilities
• Carol Allen  
  Child Study Center 
  The Child Study Center Courtyard with the frog
• David Lewin
  Office of Cooperative Research  
  Divinity School sledding hill
• Mark Aronson        
  Yale Center for British Art 
  Grove of paper birch trees planted on Hillhouse to the north west of Farmington Canal Greenway
• Rachel Perler         
  Ecology and Evolutionary Biology          
  The lawn at Marsh Botanical Gardens!
• Louise Wallace     
  Internal Medicine   
  The New Haven Green
• Beth Purcell
  Facilities/ONHSA   
  Cross Campus—in front of Sterling Memorial Library