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

Carson Murray was quoted in "Among chimps, mothers of boys are more outgoing than mothers of girls" (The Los Angeles Times) and "Mother chimps are more social with sons than with daughters" (CBS News).

Brian Richmond and postdoctoral fellow Neil Roach published "Clavicle length, throwing performance and the reconstruction of the Homo erectus shoulder" in ScienceDirect.

Bernard Wood spoke about evolution on the "Surfeit of the Vitalest" episode of Big Picture Science, heard on KLIV-AM.

L. Courtney Smith co-authored "Single Sea Urchin Phagocytes Express Messages of a Single Sequence from the Diverse Sp185/333 Gene Family in Response to Bacterial Challenge" in The Journal of Immunology.

Tara Sinclair was quoted in multiple articles, including: "Mega-Mergers Popular Again on Wall Street" (The New York Times), "A Closer Look At The Labor Force Participation Rate That Refuses To Rise" (International Business Times), "Jobs Report: U.S. Economy Added 214,000 Jobs In October, Unemployment Down To 5.8%" (Forbes) and "Obama: Since 2009, U.S. has created more jobs than 'every other advanced economy combined'" (PolitiFact). She also spoke with Al Jazeera America about the economy and midterm elections (video: 1, 2, 3).

Thomas Mallon wrote a piece for The New York Times in response to the question "As a Writer, What Influences You Other Than Books?"

Dan Moshenberg was quoted in "Kenyans protest after woman is beaten and stripped in public" (The Guardian).

Victor Weedn was quoted by NPR in "In Ferguson, A Trove Of Evidence — But No Trial" and by The Charlotte Observer in "Decrease in NC autopsies troubles police and medical officials."

Hope Harrison authored "From Shame to Pride: The Fall of the Berlin Wall through German Eyes" for Wilson Quarterly.

Christopher Klemek spoke with WAMU-FM's Metro Connection about the history of the Allan Lee Hotel in "Once-Maligned D.C. Landmark Gets Makeover As City's First 'Pod Hotel.'"

Myron Belkin appeared on C-SPAN2 in a "Book Discussion on Thirteen Soldiers."

P.J. Crowley spoke with Fox News Channel's Shepard Smith Reporting (video) about fighting ISIS and PBS NewsHour (video) about the resignation of Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel. He was also quoted by Bloomberg in "Obama Call to Authorize Islamic State War Tests Congress" and one of his tweets was mentioned on BBC World's Outside Source (audio).

Robert Entman co-authored "The Black Image in the White Mind: 2014" for a Tavis Smiley PBS blog.

Steven Livingston was quoted in the Columbia Journalism Review article "Why ISIS coverage sounds familiar."

Jason Osder authored a letter to the editor in The Washington Post, "The overall value of higher education."

Patricia Phalen wrote "Conservatives rarer than women on TV: Column" for USA Today.

Steven Roberts was quoted by CNN in "Gas prices, economy: The issues that weren't in the midterms" and spoke with KGO-AM in San Francisco on multiple occasions about various political topics (audio: 1, 2, 3).

Frank Sesno was quoted by Politico in "Fareed Zakaria’s anonymous pursuers: We’re not done yet" and by McClatchy Newspapers in "Social media help take Ferguson protests national." He was also on CNN's Reliable Sources (video) to talk about recent reporting from Ferguson, Missouri.

Tara Sonenshine authored "Re-Dos: What's Behind Second Marriage?" (The Huffington Post).

Christopher Sterling was interviewed by Radio World in "No Local Radio History Is Too Small."

Nikki Usher was quoted in the Agence France-Presse article "Facebook ‘newspaper’ spells trouble for news media."

William Youmans was quoted in "SugarString Theory: Is Verizon’s New Media Venture Banning Some Topics?" (Newsweek) and "Why ISIS coverage sounds familiar" (Columbia Journalism Review).

Robert Baker’s performance with the National Philharmonic Orchestra received a positive review in The Washington Post: "National Philharmonic Chorale pays homage to Mozart at Strathmore."

Kip Lornell was quoted in the Vitae piece "We’ve Formed an Adjunct Union. Now What?"

Andy Grundberg authored "Seeing It New" for The Wall Street Journal.

Stephen Biddle was quoted by Al Jazeera America in "After midterms, the world sees a weakened Obama," by The New York Times in "Hagel’s Departure Bears Little Likeness to Rumsfeld’s Removal" and by the Associated Press in "Hagel resignation comes at messy moment for US" and "For Obama and the Pentagon, an Uneasy Relationship."

Sarah Binder spoke about the midterm election results with Public Radio International's To the Point (audio). She was also quoted by McClatchy Newspapers in "Switch in control of U.S. Senate could cut California’s clout" and "Midterms could diminish California’s Senate clout," and by The Christian Science Monitor in "How to fix Congress: Do more work behind closed doors."

Nathan Brown was quoted in "Middle East Studies Association Fights a Rising Tide of Critics" (The Chronicle of Higher Education) and "Mubarak Court Ruling Another Blow to the Spirit of Egypt’s Revolution" (TIME).

Christopher Deering was quoted by Roll Call in "Money Dominates Committee and Leadership Races | Rules of the Game."

Henry Farrell authored "U.S. firms funnel more than half their foreign profits through tax havens" for The Washington Post blog, The Monkey Cage.

Danny Hayes was mentioned on C-SPAN's Washington Journal in a discussion of campaign coverage (video).

Marc Lynch was quoted in "A beginner's guide to the Burkina Faso crisis" (Vox) and referenced by BBC World's HARDtalk (video). One of his tweets appeared in "'Syrian Hero Boy' Is a Fake, and It Matters" (BloombergView).

Henry Nau wrote an essay that was quoted by The Wall Street Journal in "Yes, America Should Be the World’s Policeman."

Elizabeth Saunders was quoted in "How a GOP Senate Would Challenge Obama on Foreign Policy" (The Fiscal Times).

David Shambaugh was quoted in The New York Times article "Fruitful Visit by Obama Ends With a Lecture From Xi" and by The Christian Science Monitor in "Even as Obama and Xi strike accords, a quiet tussle for leadership in Asia (+video)."

John Sides was quoted in multiple articles, including: "In a Partisan Atmosphere, It Can Even Be Hard to Find Numbers That Agree" (The New York Times), "The Inside Story of How Republicans Gaffe-Proofed Their Candidates" (TIME), "How did the election models do? Pretty darn good" (The Washington Post) and "Hillary Clinton could be Democrats' sole star after midterm elections brought GOP takeover" (New York Daily News).

Ismail White published "Selling Out?: The Politics of Navigating Conflicts between Racial Group Interest and Self-interest" in American Political Science Review.

Joseph Cordes spoke with America Public Media's Marketplace (audio) about the prospects for tax reform.

Stephen Joel Trachtenberg was quoted in The Wall Street Journal article "New on Campus: The 3-Year Degree."

Robert Tuttle was quoted in "ROTC program under review amid religion-based challenges" (ArmyTimes.com).

Amitai Etzioni authored "US Grand Strategy: More Restraint" (The Diplomat) and "It's Economic Insecurity, Stupid" (The Huffington Post).

Antwan Jones co-authored the American Banker article "Foreclosures Are Making Americans Sick" and wrote "Ebola and Chronic Diseases in Latin America: Keeping the Success Stories Alive" (GlobalPolicy.tv).

Gregory D. Squires co-wrote "Foreclosures Are Making Americans Sick" for American Banker.

Ronald Weitzer was quoted in "Ranking the rankings" (The Economist).