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
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

BEN RAAB
MEN’S BASKETBALL: Yale snaps ten-game winning streak with loss at Princeton

Bulldogs defeat Penn but fall to Princeton, ending hopes of an undefeated Ivy League season.

February 18, 2024

BEN RAAB
MEN’S BASKETBALL: How Yale can make history this weekend

A look at how Yale, a perfect 7–0 in Ivy play, can claim the best start to a conference season in the team’s 128-year history — and at how the Bulldogs got here after an uncharacteristically poor start to the season.

February 16, 2024

BEN RAAB
Computer Science majors on the rise despite tech layoffs, questions over AI

The department is expected to award 138 graduate degrees this year to its “pure” majors, up from 97 the previous year, even amid massive layoffs in the tech sector and questions over the role that artificial intelligence will play in the industry’s future.

February 15, 2024

BEN RAAB
Yale beats Cornell on last-second basket, improves to 7-0 in Ivy League

The Bulldogs are now in first place in the conference standings, and are one of only two teams in the nation still unbeaten in conference play.

February 12, 2024

BEN RAAB
No evidence to support plagiarism allegations against computer science course

Several students on Fizz, an anonymous campus chat app, claimed that computer science professor Arman Cohan copied slides and homework for his course on Natural Language Processing from a similar course at Stanford. However, the News found no evidence to verify such a claim.

February 6, 2024

BEN RAAB
MEN’S BASKETBALL: Yale extends winning streak to eight with big wins over Princeton, Penn

The Bulldogs came back from a five-point deficit to earn a huge victory over Princeton Friday night, and followed it up with a strong performance against Penn on Saturday.

February 5, 2024

BEN RAAB
The Rematch: Yale, Princeton to face off in Ivy showdown

The Bulldogs host the Tigers in Payne Whitney Friday night, their first matchup since Princeton knocked Yale’s men’s basketball team out of the Ivy Tournament at the end of last season.

February 1, 2024

BEN RAAB
Yale professors donated almost exclusively to Democrats in 2023

Of the total contributions made by Yale professors, 98.4 percent went to Democratic-affiliated candidates and groups.

January 31, 2024

EMILY AIKENS & BEN RAAB
Faculty and administration raise alarm on grade inflation, ‘no plans’ to change grading policy

In response to a grading report obtained by the News in November, professors in various departments spoke about the causes of rising grades, potential solutions and how grade inflation may affect Yale academics moving forward.

January 30, 2024