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University of Texas at Austin History Professor David Oshinsky has been awarded the Cartwright Prize from Columbia University Medical Center for his research into the history of polio.

He will also present the annual Cartwright Lecture next month. The lecture series provides a forum for leading scientists and thinkers to review important medical research.

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Radio and television networks and newspapers are struggling to survive the transformation to the digital age.

As established media business models become outmoded because of the Internet, a program at Columbia University's journalism school offers news executives a forum to share their problems.

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China is trying to maintain stability in the western region of the country, after deadly riots killed 165 people.

Robbie Barnett, a professor of modern Tibetan studies at Columbia University, says the government handled this unrest differently than it did with last year's crackdown in Tibet.

He says Tibet was locked down, while journalists were taken to Urumqi to see the damage.