Assistant Professor Jake Dionne Wins National Research AwardsPhoto Submitted Jake DionneJake Dionne, assistant professor of communication at the University of Arkansas, has received two national publication awards from the National Communication Association. Both essays focus on what Dionne calls the "Bison Restoration Movement," a long-term initiative to recover the North American bison across 22 habitat types on public, private and tribal lands. Dionne explains how emotions, often seen as barriers, can also serve as communicative resources for building effective coalitions. These projects build on Dionne's broader scholarship on environmental and legal communication pertaining to the Bison Restoration Movement, which includes essays in Communication Monographs, Critical Studies in Media Communication and Communication Teacher. Dionne will receive his awards at the 111th annual meeting of the National Communication Association in Denver.