Ben Raab
Staff Reporter
https://twitter.com/BenHRaab | ben.raab@yale.edu
Ben Raab covers faculty and academics at Yale and writes about the Yale men's basketball team. Originally from New York City, Ben is a sophomore in Pierson college pursuing a double major in history and political science.
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BEN RAAB
MEN’S BASKETBALL: Yale faces stiff competition at Ivy Madness

The Bulldogs, seeded second among Ivy teams, are set to face No. 3 Cornell Saturday afternoon in a win-or-go-home semifinal matchup of the Ivy League tournament.

March 15, 2024

BEN RAAB
MEN’S BASKETBALL: Yale falls to Brown in overtime heartbreaker, will play Cornell in Ivy tournament

The Bulldogs will rank as either the second or the third seed ahead of Saturday’s Ivy League tournament in New York City.

March 9, 2024

Ben Raab
BEN RAAB & HUDSON WARM
Black engineering students call for increased diversity in SEAS

Just 1.3 percent of faculty members in the School of Engineering and Applied Science identify as Black or African American, compared to five percent across all Yale faculty and six percent among the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

March 8, 2024

BEN RAAB
MEN’S BASKETBALL: Yale beats Harvard and Dartmouth, gaining momentum ahead of Ivy Tournament

The Bulldogs have now reached the 20-win mark for the fourth time in the last five seasons, and can make the NCAA tournament by winning the Ivy League’s four-team tournament later this month.

March 4, 2024

BEN RAAB
Communist group disrupts Timothy Snyder’s lecture, forces evacuation

Demonstrators accused Snyder, a history professor, of “brainwashing” students about communism and called on him to condemn the United States’ support of Israel amid its war against Hamas in Gaza.

March 1, 2024

BENJAMIN HERNANDEZ & BEN RAAB
Judge rules in favor of Yale Corporation’s right to end alumni petition process, alumni likely to appeal

The ruling stems from a March 2022 lawsuit alleging that the Corporation's termination of the petition process violates the terms of an 1872 amendment to Yale’s charter.

February 28, 2024

BEN RAAB
MEN’S BASKETBALL: Yale clinches Ivy tournament, unlikely to be first seed after Cornell loss

A loss to the Big Red in Ithaca last Friday means the Bulldogs will likely face either Princeton or Cornell in the first round of the Ivy tournament.

February 26, 2024

BEN RAAB
MEN’S BASKETBALL: After Princeton speedbump, Yale must hit the accelerator vs Cornell

If the Bulldogs defeat the Big Red on Friday, they’ll have total control over first place and be in prime position to land the first seed at the four-team Ivy tournament in March.

February 23, 2024

BEN RAAB
A ‘new type of Russian politician’: Alexey Navalny’s rise from Yale World Fellow to Kremlin watchdog

Navalny, who died at 47 on Friday, lived on Yale’s campus as a world fellow in fall 2010, and used the University’s resources to develop his skills as an activist.

February 20, 2024

BEN RAAB
Yale faculty sign letter addressed to Yale’s future president, affirms commitment to social justice

The letter — signed by more than 100 faculty members at Yale College, Yale Law School and the Yale School of Medicine, among others — offers six aspirations for Yale’s future president’s tenure.

February 20, 2024

BEN RAAB & BENJAMIN HERNANDEZ
Faculty group calls on Yale to make teaching ‘distinct from activism’

The new initiative urges the University to adopt six new measures, which include more thorough protections on free speech, a commitment to institutional neutrality and new guidelines regarding donor influence.

February 19, 2024