Among the Columbian College faculty getting recent press are the following individuals, listed by department:

David Braun was quoted by National Geographic in "Wrong Turn Leads to Discovery of Oldest Stone Tools" and by The Associated Press in "Oldest Known Stone Tools Found in Kenya; Makers Not Known."

Alison Brooks was referenced in "Stone Tools From Kenya Are Oldest Yet Discovered" (The New York Times), "Oldest Known Stone Tools Found in Kenya; Makers Not Known" (The Associated Press) and "Stone tools may have been used before our genus came on the scene" (The Washington Post).

Susan Carvalho co-authored "Apes under pressure show their ingenuity – and hint at our own evolutionary past" in The Conversation.

Stephen Lubkemann and the African Slave Wrecks Project were featured in "Grim History Traced in Sunken Slave Ship Found Off South Africa" (The New York Times), "Lecture on Shipwrecks off St. Croix’s Coast Associated with Slave Trade to Be Presented on Thursday" (The Virgin Islands Consortium) and "African Slave Wrecks Project at NPS on St. Croix" (St. Croix Source). The project was also mentioned in "Humble objects' of a sunken slave ship tell a powerful and emotional story" (The Washington Post), "Smithsonian to Receive Artifacts From Sunken 18th-Century Slave Ship Found Off the Coast of South Africa" (Smithsonian) and "Wreck Of A 221-Year-Old-Ship Is Confirmed Off South Africa" (NPR).

Chester Sherwood was quoted in the Patch article "Student’s Artwork Will Be Displayed in Paris."

Bernard Wood was quoted in "World's oldest tools -- from 3.3 million years ago -- discovered in Africa" (USA Today), "Fossil jaw, teeth show new forerunner of humans" (The Associated Press), "Study: Ethiopian fossils indicate new branch of human evolutionary tree" (The Associated Press) and "Newfound human ancestor may have lived alongside Lucy" (CBS News).

Akos Vertes' lab invented nanotechnology used in a new silicon chip launched by Protea Biosciences Group, Inc., as noted in "Protea Announces Commercial Release of REDIchip(TM)" (CNN Money).

Andrew Smith was cited by The Los Angeles Times in "The city that makes Rome blush: 5 reasons why Palmyra's ruins are so important."

Tara Sinclair was interviewed by PolitiFact in "Clinton avoids media on Atlanta visit but regularly hits Truth-O-Meter" and was mentioned in "Was Ronald Reagan’s record on black unemployment better than Barack Obama’s?" She was also quoted in "Hiring rebounds in April, pushing US unemployment rate to 7-year low of 5.4 pct." (The Associated Press), "Mike Huckabee says he 'raised average family income by 50 percent' as Arkansas governor" (PolitiFact), "Newest crop of college grads may find underemployment easing a bit" (The Washington Post) and "Labor Secretary Thomas Perez weighs incarceration’s role in inner-city Baltimore’s bleak job picture" (PolitiFact).

Joann Weiner was referenced in "Lyft raises $100 million from Carl Icahn to show Uber hasn’t won it all" (San Jose Mercury-News).

Edward P. Jones was interviewed by The Baltimore Sun for "Edward P. Jones on receiving the Harold Washington Literary Award."

Marie Price authored "Progressive Voice: Dreamers Succeeding in Arlington and Beyond" for WTOP-FM.

Ronald Spector was cited in "Victory in Europe: Old wounds ache 70 years after VE Day" (Scripps).

Steven Roberts guest hosted NPR's The Diane Rehm Show (audio: 1, 2).

Frank Sesno was quoted by The Washington Post in "Has prime time faded for cable TV news?" and mentioned by The Baltimore Sun in "Freddie Gray coverage still hot topic on Sunday morning TV." He also guest hosted NPR's The Diane Rehm Show (audio: 1, 2).

Tara Sonenshine authored "Why Suicide Is Such a Hot Topic" (The Huffington Post) and wrote a book review of The Green Road for New York Journal of Books.

Douglas Boyce's work "La Déploration" was reviewed in "Review: Counter)induction at the Church of the Intercession" (The New York Times).

Stephen Biddle was quoted by The Washington Post in "Obama on the defense again as another defense secretary speaks" and by The Associated Press in "Rout in Ramadi calls US Iraq strategy into question."

Sarah Binder authored "Why can’t Mitch McConnell keep his promises?" (The Washington Post) and was quoted in "For the First Time Since 2007, a Party Filibusters Its Own President" (Bloomberg) and "U.S. Congress better when political 'extremists' are weak: poll" (Reuters). She also discussed the report The Evolving Congress on C-SPAN (video).

Nathan Brown was referenced in "Why Egypt’s conservative judiciary doesn’t always do Sisi’s bidding" (Christian Science Monitor), "Worldview: Egypt's Sisi fueling discontent" (The Philadelphia Inquirer) and "Egypt’s military government has started executing people on overtly political charges" (Los Angeles Daily News).

Henry Farrell co-authored "Ireland’s voters approve same-sex marriage. Here’s how that happened" for The Washington Post blog, The Monkey Cage. He was also quoted by Foreign Policy in "The State Department’s Weary Soldier in America’s Cyber War."

Evgeny Finkel published "Does Reform Prevent Rebellion? Evidence From Russia’s Emancipation of the Serfs" in Comparative Political Studies. He also authored "The Phoenix Effect of State Repression: Jewish Resistance during the Holocaust" (American Political Science Review), which was paraphrased by The Boston Globe in "Texting during surgery is not as crazy as it sounds."

Samuel Goldman participated in a discussion on C-SPAN (video: 1, 2, 3) about the book, The Socialist Party of America: A Complete History.

Henry Hale co-authored The Monkey Cage post "Russians see Ukraine as an illegitimate state."

Young C. Kim was referenced in "Japan-Korea tension laid bare" (The Washington Times).

Henry Nau took part in a panel discussion on C-SPAN (video) about President Ronald Reagan and the Cold War.

David Shambaugh was mentioned in "The Worrying Rise of Anti-China Discourse in the US" (The Diplomat) and "Chinese Democracy Isn’t Inevitable" (The Atlantic).

John Sides authored The Monkey Cage post "Have black protests helped or hurt the Democratic Party?" and was quoted in "The Republican Presidential Contest Has a Polling Problem" (TIME) and "Lights! Camera! Election!" (U.S. News & World Report). He also appeared on a C-SPAN (video) for a discussion on the report The Evolving Congress.

Scott Pace was cited in "SpaceX Gains Approval to Enter $70 Billion Military Market" (Bloomberg), "SpaceX Poised to Add Military Missions on Russia Engine Spat" (Bloomberg) and "SpaceX gains approval to compete for military contracts" (The Waco Tribune).

Amit Ronen was quoted by Computerworld in "Can Elon Musk's battery really cut your power lines?"

Stephen Joel Trachtenberg was quoted in "Ivy League Presidents Are Starting to Get Paid Like Corporate Executives" (Bloomberg).

Seyyed Hossein Nasr was quoted in The Weekly Standard article "World's Largest Hotel: For Muslims Only."

Kelly Pemberton was interviewed on PBS' To the Contrary (video) about the nonprofit organization Karamah: Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights, and on CCTV America (video) about why women are joining the Islamic extremist group ISIS.

Dana Tai Soon Burgess was interviewed by BBC News for "The changing relationship between celebrities and art."

Gordon Mantler appeared on American Public Media's Marketplace (audio) to discuss books written by presidential hopefuls.