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SDG wheel with illustrations of Dave Toews and Sally Mackenzie
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About the Cover

1 November 2022
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SDG wheel with illustrations of Dave Toews and Sally Mackenzie

The cover of this issue of the Science Journal features icons from the United Nation’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which include topics such as ending poverty, improving healthy and education, reducing inequality, tackling climate change, and working to understand and preserve life on land and under water. 

The cover also features three members of the Eberly College of Science whose research aligns with several of the SDGs, including “Life on Land”, “Climate Action,” and “No Hunger.”

Assistant Professor of Biology David Toews (left) studies evolutionary biology, genomics, and molecularly ecology in birds. Sally Mackenzie (right), Lloyd and Dottie Huck Chair for Functional Genomics and professor of biology and of plant sciences, a researcher in her lab group Hardik Kundariya (middle), and the rest of her research group currently study how manipulating gene expression through epigenetics could make crops more resilient in the face of climate change.