Takahashi, the longtime senior director of the Yale Investments Office, will spearhead a new multidisciplinary Yale laboratory that will develop and support innovative solutions to the challenge of climate change.

Statera Therapeutics, co-founded by Jennifer Fischer ’19 and Owen Yang ’19, aims to modernize immunotherapy and vaccination with "spatiotemporally tuned particles" to maximize drug delivery efficacy. The company took the grand prize at the NYU-Yale Summer Accelerator Pitchoff in July.

In a feature published on November 29, the CFA Institute and the Financial Times highlight Ranji Nagaswami ’86 and her long career at the nexus of business and society. 

Ken Ofori-Atta ’88, who has served as Ghana’s finance minister since January 2017, was named African Finance Minister of the Year at the 2018 African Banker Awards on May 22, according to the Accra-based, state-owned newspaper the Daily Graphic.