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

Elisabeth Anker authored "The Danger in Political Melodrama" for New America.

Alison Brooks was interviewed on NPR’s All Things Considered about "Indonesian Cave Paintings As Old As Europe's Ancient Art" and quoted in the Science article, "Indonesian cave art may be world's oldest."

Gustavo Hormiga was quoted in "Puppy-Size Tarantula Found: Explaining World’s Biggest Spider" (National Geographic).

Scott Powell’s research was featured in the NOVA Next article, “New Ant Species Thrives by Hacking Another Species’s Culture.”

Jeffrey J. Cohen was quoted in The New York Times piece "From Daleks to Zombies: What Monsters Mean to Us."

Carmel Chiswick was quoted by The Atlantic in "A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Being Jewish."

Wallace Mullin's research was mentioned in "Gender Equality In The Workplace Can Boost Profits" (The Huffington Post).

Tara Sinclair spoke with U.S. News & World Report ("Employers Add 248,000 Workers in September") and NPR (audio) regarding the September jobs report. She was also quoted by PolitiFact in "Thom Tillis says that Kay Hagan 'voted to kill' the equivalent of 2.5 million jobs." 

Joann Weiner authored the following posts for The Washington Post blog, She The People: "Student loans plus financial illiteracy equals big debts for some older women," "Despite cyberattacks at JPMorgan, Home Depot and Target, many millennials aren’t worried about being hacked" and "Literacy advocate wins Rubenstein prize, but teaching the world to read remains a challenge."

Victor Weedn was quoted in "Evidence supports officer’s account of shooting in Ferguson" (The Washington Post), "Ferguson shooting: Evidence appears to support officer's version of events" (The Christian Science Monitor) and "Pathologist says Brown autopsy quotes in Post-Dispatch were taken out of context" (The Washington Post).

Mona Atia's research was referenced in The Washington Post article "Islamists and their charities."

Hope Harrison authored "Five myths about the Berlin Wall" for The Washington Post.

Benjamin D. Hopkins was quoted in "Inside The Overcrowded, Crumbling Afghan Prison The U.S. Just Spent $20 Million Trying To Fix" (ThinkProgress).

P.J. Crowley was quoted by The Washington Diplomat in "Fluency Varies in Language of 21st-Century Diplomacy."

David Karpf was quoted in "How ActBlue Became a Powerful Force in Fund-Raising" (The New York Times) and spoke with Marketplace (audio) about election advertising on cable television.

Steven Roberts was on KGO-AM in San Francisco to talk about President Obama's comments about ISIS (audio) and Mitt Romney (audio).

Frank Sesno spoke with Fox News Channel's MediaBuzz (video) and CNN's Smerconish (video) about Ebola. He was also quoted by The Washington Times in "Michigan debate over debates hurts voters; ground rules hotly contested" and spoke with CNN's Reliable Sources (video) about how media prioritizes "lone wolf" attacks.

Tara Sonenshine was quoted in the Bizwomen article "Former State Dept. official: Pierson resignation is 'the price of leadership in the most sensitive of jobs'" and authored several pieces for The Hill, including: "Ebola anxiety" and "When talking about Ebola, how not to transmit fear." She also wrote "The Age of American Impatience: Why It's a Dangerous Syndrome" and "Active Dying" for The Huffington Post and "A life-and-death conversation" for Newsday.

Michelle Frankfurter authored "Photos: Central American migrants on the Train of Death, searching for a new life" in The Washington Post and her new book, Destino, was featured in "Perilous road to a new life" (The New York Times).

Harald Griesshammer was quoted in The Washington Post article "Can Lockheed Martin’s nuclear fusion reactor work? Some scientists doubt it."

Stephen Biddle was interviewed by CBS affiliates (video) about the latest action against ISIS militants.

Sarah Binder was quoted in "Lofty goals, few results for 'No Labels' group in Congress" (Philly.com) and "Janet Yellen Warns of Inequality Threat" (The New York Times).

Nathan Brown was quoted by The New York Times in "Online Magazine Brings New Life to Arab Studies" and by The Wall Street Journal in "Donors Pledge $5.4 Billion to Rebuild Gaza." He also wrote "In defense of U.S. funding for area studies" for The Washington Post blog, The Monkey Cage.

Henry Farrell wrote The Monkey Cage blog post, "No, the National Science Foundation is not building an Orwellian surveillance nightmare."

Steven Kaplan spoke with American Public Media's Marketplace (audio) about global economic growth.

Marc Lynch authored "Islamists and their charities" and "Kissinger the constructivist" for The Monkey Cage. He was also quoted in "What Happens When Arming the Rebels Goes Wrong?" (Frontline).

Mike Mochizuki was mentioned in The Wall Street Journal article "U.S. Experts Challenge Abe View of ‘Comfort Women’" and was quoted by The Japan Times in "Main issue in sex slave debate is women’s will, U.S. professor tells Tokyo."

David Shambaugh was quoted in "An Inconvenient Protest for Both China and the U.S." (The New York Times) and mentioned in "Global Support for Hong Kong Student Protest Intensifies" (TIME).

John Sides was quoted in "Predicting the Senate election down to the decimal point" (The Washington Post) and mentioned in "A consumer’s guide to the final weeks of Campaign 2014" (The Washington Post).

Larney Gump was quoted by The Washington Post in "Is your boss making you sick?"

Stephanie Riegg Cellini was quoted in "Why Aid for College Is Missing the Mark" (The New York Times) and "The Compelling Need to Improve the Higher Education Value Equation" (The Huffington Post).

Elizabeth Rigby was quoted in the PolitiFact article "Amid Ebola cases, Cory Gardner blasts CDC spending on 'jazzercise,' 'urban gardens.'"

Amit Ronen sat down for a five-part "Newsmaker Interview" (videos) with RealClearPolitics to talk about the GW Solar Institute, solar power and renewal energy technologies. He was also quoted in the Bloomberg BNA article "Solar Industry Launches Lobbying Effort as Tax Deadline Prompts Canceled Projects."

Seyyed Hossein Nasr spoke with CBC/Radio-Canada's IDEAS about "Islam and the Environment."

Amitai Etzioni wrote "Midterm Elections" for The Huffington Post.

Antwan Jones appeared as an in-studio guest (video, interview is in Arabic) on Alhurra's Special Report to talk about the Michael Brown shooting and unrest in Ferguson, Missouri.

Gregory Squires wrote "Ferguson: Nobody should be surprised" for The St. Louis Post-Dispatch and co-authored "Forget Red and Blue States. Think Green and Brown" for The Courier-Journal.

Gordon Mantler made remarks at a symposium on "Minority Activism and the 1968 Election" that aired on C-SPAN3.