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Gordon Gee will leave after seven years as ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ's chancellor to return to Ohio State University as its president, a position he previously held from 1990 to 1997. His resignation is effective Aug. 1. ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Nicholas S. Zeppos has been named interim chancellor effective Aug. 1, Board of Trust Chairman Martha R. Ingram announced on July 12. Read More

Four young men stand on the edge of a stage, eyes closed and backs facing the room. More young men stand below, some poised for action and others distracted with horseplay. Read More

Gordon Gee will leave after seven years as ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University's chancellor to return to The Ohio State University as president, a position he held from 1990 to 1997. His resignation is effective Aug. 1. Read More

In a court of law, a person is innocent until proven guilty. But when a person's photograph and arrest information are posted on television newscasts, newspapers, radio reports and Web sites, he or she is essentially being painted as a criminal before being tried by a judge or jury. That's the opinion of University Professor of Constitutional Law & Health Law & Policy James Blumstein. Blumstein is going to U.S. District Court on July 11 to convince a judge to enforce a 33-year-old court order that bans Nashville Metro Police from giving out raw arrest information. Read More

The recent school desegregation decisions handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court drive home three important lessons. Read More

²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University's "Meet the Candidates" picnic on July 19 is expected to be one of the largest and most colorful political gatherings prior to the Metropolitan Nashville General Election. Live streaming video of the picnic will be available on VUCast, http://www.vanderbilt.edu/news, beginning at 11:30 a.m. that day. Archived video will be available after the event Read More

An Op-ed by Claire Smrekar, associate professor of education and public policy, on the recent U. S. Supreme Court ruling regarding race-based assignment plans for the school districts of Louisville, Ky. and Seattle, Wash. Read More

On July 2, Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ will begin operating the state's first pediatric Level 1 Trauma Center at a children's hospital. Read More

Anthropologists working on the slopes of the Andes in northern Peru have discovered the earliest-known evidence of peanut, cotton and squash farming dating back 5,000 to 9,000 years. Their findings provide long-sought-after evidence that some of the early development of agriculture in the New World took place at farming settlements in the Andes. Read More

After the Nashville Predators ended their best regular NHL season on the ice with 110 points, absentee owner Craig Liepold (Racine, Wis.) soon sold the proud Preds to Canadian Jim Balsillie (BlackBerry techno-preneur from Hamilton, Ontario) for a cool $220 million. Read More

The director of investments at Emory University was named chief investment officer at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University, responsible for managing its $3.4 billion endowment. Read More

The United States Supreme Court is set to make decisions on a number of hotly debated cases and a diverse group of ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University experts is ready to talk about those cases. Read More

America's past immigrant experience should be studied by those wanting to overhaul current immigration laws, says historian Gary Gerstle. Read More

The most unusual sound coming out of the American Symphony Orchestra League's conference in Nashville this week won't be from woodwinds, brass or strings, but rather from the tapping of fingers on computer keyboards. Read More

Emeritus ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ Law Professor Theodore (Ted) Smedley, who helped define law education at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ and who thrust the law school onto the national scene, died of a heart attack June 15. He was 94. Read More

President Bush honored ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University's NCAA Champion Women's Bowling team Monday afternoon during a special ceremony on the White House's South Lawn. Read More

Memos in 2002 and 2003 written by White House lawyers to President Bush effectively promoting the use of torture are shocking, but not because of faulty legal arguments, says a ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University professor. Read More

Summer solstice, the official start of summer and longest day of the year, falls at 6:08 p.m. on Thursday, June 21. The best place in Nashville to report on astronomy events is the ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ Dyer Observatory, located at one of the highest points in Nashville. Read More

William Carrington Finch, the dean of ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ Divinity School in the early 1960s and president of two other universities during his career, died June 13 in Nashville. He was 97. Read More

The Colombian government enjoys high levels of citizen support and Colombians trust the democratic system, according to a new survey. Read More