The cover story in this issue of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business magazine centers on the challenge to care for our environment as put forth in the papal encyclical Laudato Si’. We translated three major themes: sustainability, connectedness, and Notre Dame, into custom illustrated flora and fauna. Cover story illustration by Charlotte Day.

The cover includes a blind debossed and varnished gold cross among the magnolias, clover, ivy, oak, crab apple blossoms, sycamore, ferns, bee, and dragonfly, common species to South Bend, Indiana. Woven into the lush opening illustration and large drop caps throughout the story are more botanicals including roses and tulips, as well as birds, a moth, chipmunk, and squirrel, notorious throughout the Notre Dame campus.

Other features include the complexities around coca farming in Colombia and Muffet McGraw’s perspective on the current state of gender equality, marking fifty years of women in business at Notre Dame.