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

James Clark and his former graduate student Brian Andres, MS ’03, were part of an international research team that discovered and named the earliest and most primitive pterodactyloid. (Andres is now a paleontologist at the University of South Florida.) Their research was covered by PBS Newshour, National Geographic, Reuters, The Huffington Post, and Business Insider.

Eric Cline's book, 1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed, made Canada’s best seller list in the non-fiction category during its first week, and was reviewed in Inside Higher Ed. Cline was also interviewed in The Washington Post article, "Wine cellaring runs deep in our Judeo-Christian DNA."

Tara Sinclair was quoted in "New York, Washington, D.C. top cities for new college grads to start careers: report" (New York Daily News) and "Job search 'catch as catch can' for non-grads" (NBC News).

Joann Weiner wrote multiple posts for The Washington Post blog, She The People, including "Is a global wealth tax the key to reducing income inequality?" and "Journalists Kay and Shipman urge women to close the confidence gap."

Thomas Mallon co-wrote "Why Is It So Hard to Capture the Writer’s Life on Film?" for The New York Times.

Eric Arneson wrote The Washington Post book review for "The Bill of the Century: The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act By Clay Risen."

Denver Brunsman was quoted in "Party politics change the America George Washington envisioned" (Scripps Howard Foundation Wire).

Edward McCord wrote the article "Confucius Institutes: Hardly a Threat to Academic Freedoms" in The Diplomat.

P.J. Crowley was interviewed (video) on "Shepard Smith Reporting" on Fox News regarding the crisis in Ukraine.

Major Garrett wrote four articles for National Journal: "White House Masked Fears of Obamacare Collapse," "The Pen, Phone and Stray Voltage," "The Pivot Potential in Asia and at Home," and "Obama’s Punch and Judy Foreign Policy."

Matthew Hindman was quoted in "The Disappearing Woman and Life on the Internet" (The Huffington Post).

David Karpf's research was cited in the article "A Gaffe Can Matter When It Motivates the Base" on FiveThirtyEight.

Steven Livingston authored "The Transformative Impact of Data and Communication on Governance" (Part 1, 2, 3) for TechTank, a Brookings Institution blog.

Patricia Phalen co-authored "Women of influence: A case study of three telecommunications policymakers" in Telecommunications Policy and asked a question (video) at a forum on FCC and communication policy on C-SPAN 2.

Steven Roberts was interviewed about immigration reform (audio) and various political topics (audio) on KGO-AM, San Francisco.

Frank Sesno was interviewed (video) about controversy at MSNBC on CNN's "Reliable Sources."

Janet Steele and her students were interviewed (video) by Swedish TV about media coverage of the Malaysian airplane crash.

Oleg Kargaltsev is a co-author of a study that was referenced in "Supernova Cleans Up Its Surroundings" (Space Daily).

Stephen Biddle was quoted in "Dempsey: Israel, Arab governments share security fears" (USA Today) and "President Obama travels east, still pledging a 'pivot'" (Marketplace).

Sarah Binder wrote "The challenge of leading a more transparent Fed" for The Monkey Cage blog and was quoted in "The Imaginary Rule That Keeps Obama’s Judges From Being Confirmed" (ThinkProgress).

Nathan Brown co-wrote "Egypt’s Judges Join In" for Foreign Affairs, was interviewed (audio) about the crackdown on protests in Egypt on NPR, and was quoted in "Death Sentence In Egypt Leads To International Outrage" (Al Jazeera America), "Egypt Sentences 683 Muslim Brotherhood Supporters to Death" (The Wall Street Journal), and "With mass sentences, Egyptians seek justice, but come away empty-handed" (The Christian Science Monitor).

Henry Farrell authored "The NSA may have exploited Heartbleed. That’s a very, very big deal" and "Israeli checkpoints fuel support for violence" for The Washington Post blog, The Monkey Cage.

Daniel Hayes was quoted in "Arthur Brooks's Push to Make the American Enterprise Institute—and Republicans—Relevant Again" (Newseek).

Yonatan Lupu co-wrote The Monkey Cage blog post, "What World War I can tell us about international commerce and war today."

Forrest Maltzman was quoted in the ThinkProgress article, "The Imaginary Rule That Keeps Obama’s Judges From Being Confirmed."

Mike Mochizuki was interviewed (video: 1, 2) about President Obama's visit to Japan on PBS NewsHour.

John Sides wrote several posts for The Monkey Cage blog, including "Why Republicans can be even more optimistic about taking the Senate" and "How big could the GOP House majority get?" He was also quoted in "The first Brooklyn president?" and "Money talks in Washington" (New York Daily News), "A closer look at ‘Paycheck Fairness’" (Pittsburgh Tribune), and "Invoking 'Fire Pelosi' from 2010, GOP takes on Harry Reid. Will it work?" (The Christian Science Monitor).

Stephanie Cellini was quoted in The Washington Post article, "Do 72 percent of for-profit programs have graduates making less than high school dropouts?"

Stephen Joel Trachtenberg wrote "3 Cheers for an Associate Degree" for Inside Higher Ed.

Amitai Etzioni was interviewed about microaggressions on WAMU-FM's "The Kojo Nnamdi Show" and wrote "Obama’s 'Rebalancing': A Fig Leaf" for The Diplomat.

Katherine Larsen was quoted in "Inside Hogwarts Is Here, the Harry Potter MOOC that lets you study wizardry — and validates a generation of fans" (The Washington Post).