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Assistant Professor [Dara Wald]() reports that a collaborative article exploring the challenges of network capture, shifting stakeholder boundaries and competing knowledge claims in natural resource conservation will be published as part of a special issue in *Frontiers in Ecology and Environment*.

Another manuscript comparing risk perceptions and tolerance for non-native animals in Florida and Hawaii will also be published in *Conservation Biology*. Wald began research on empathy arousing messages with an undergraduate student in the honors mentor program. She also reviewed a manuscript for *Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly*.

Wald reports that this is the final call for submissions to the 5th Iowa State University Summer Symposium on Science Communication: Confronting the challenges of public participation in environmental, planning and health decision-making. The submission deadline is Jan. 29, 2016.

The symposium will feature a variety of fields that have taken up the call to develop new forms of interaction between experts and decision-makers, on one hand, and community residents, patients, landowners, industry representatives and other affected publics on the other. For further information, see [https://scicomm.las.iastate.edu/summer-symposia/2016-summer-symposium/](https://scicomm.las.iastate.edu/summer-symposia/2016-summer-symposium/) or contact Wald (dwald@iastate.edu).