Benjamin Hernandez
Staff Reporter
benjamin.hernandez@yale.edu
Benjamin Hernandez covers Woodbridge Hall, the President's Office. He previously reported on international affairs at Yale. Born and raised in Dallas, Texas, he is a sophomore in Trumbull College majoring in Global Affairs.
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BENJAMIN HERNANDEZ
Salovey visits South Korea to talk future partnerships

President Peter Salovey and a delegation of staff members traveled to the country over spring break and met with officials from local universities, as well as alumni in the region, to discuss research and educational partnerships in South Korea and East Asia.

April 6, 2023

BENJAMIN HERNANDEZ
Yale Africa Startup Review hosts first in-person event, unveils annual list of 30 African startups

Alumni, editors, entrepreneurs and members of the Yale entrepreneurial community convened for the reveal of the startups selected for YASR30 2023.

March 30, 2023

BENJAMIN HERNANDEZ
Photojournalist Lynsey Addario delivers Gruber Lecture at YLS

Addario spoke candidly about her work and the impact that she hopes to impart by chronicling her time as a photojournalist through a series of photographs.

March 28, 2023

WILLIAM PORAYOUW & BENJAMIN HERNANDEZ
Graduate students push to expand OISS

International graduate students have listed the office’s expansion as a top priority in conversations with University administrators.

March 3, 2023

BENJAMIN HERNANDEZ & YURII STASIUK
‘Vladimir Putin will keep going’: Blumenthal and Sonnenfeld talk anniversary of Russian invasion of Ukraine

At a Thursday town hall, Senator Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73 and SOM assistant dean Jeffrey Sonnenfeld discussed the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion in Ukraine.

February 28, 2023

BENJAMIN HERNANDEZ & WILLIAM PORAYOUW
Salovey signals interest in South Asian partnerships

Yale is reviewing potential academic partnerships in universities in South Asia on the guidance of the President’s Council on International Activities.

February 14, 2023

BENJAMIN HERNANDEZ
U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón to read at Yale University Art Gallery

The event will take place in the Robert McNeil Jr. Lecture Hall and is free and open to the public.

February 1, 2023

BENJAMIN HERNANDEZ
Israel and Palestine Human Rights Watch director speaks at Dwight Hall

Students packed into Dwight Hall Chapel on Monday evening to hear Omar Shakir speak about the Human Rights Watch apartheid determination in the Israel and Palestine conflict and to discuss the fight for academic freedom to engage in human rights advocacy on Israel / Palestine

January 31, 2023

OLIVIA LOMBARDO & BENJAMIN HERNANDEZ
Jackson launches five-year B.A.-B.S./M.P.P. program for undergraduates

Current Yale College juniors will be eligible to apply for Jackson’s five-year B.A.-B.S./M.P.P. program in the spring.

November 29, 2022

BENJAMIN HERNANDEZ
“Grateful for our community”: Mexican restaurant Tacos Los Gordos re-opens after fire

Edgar Marcial, restaurant owner, says it feels like the restaurant never stopped operation after having to close due to a kitchen-wall fire shortly after opening.

November 11, 2022

BENJAMIN HERNANDEZ
Flight attendant union leader Sara Nelson gives annual Gruber Lecture in Women’s Rights at Yale Law School

On Oct. 17, Sara Nelson gave the Fall 2022 Gruber Distinguished Lecture in Women’s Rights, sponsored by the Gruber Program for Global Justice and Women’s Rights, at the Yale Law School.

October 23, 2022