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Eric Simonelli of Lynnfield , a junior at Boston College High School, a member of the school's Model United Nations Club, traveled to Nashville, Tenn for a three day conference at Vanderbilt University.

There is some good news for parents of the 1,000 Nashville 4-year-olds whose names are on a waiting list to get into Metro Public Schools' prekindergarten classes.

In spite of the nation's health experts insisting that measles remains preventable and "eminently eliminatable," the United States is experiencing a spike in the disease, with more than 98 percent of the patients unvaccinated.

Clockwise from top left, Jim Holahan, a liver transplant recipient moved from New Jersey to Durham, North Carolina where the competition for organs is less intense.

On her way to one of her first college classes this August, Laney Overton walked past towering coils of barbed wire and stepped through a metal detector.

Bar owner Chris Ferrell has been charged over the shooting of country singer Wayne Mills Wayne Mills was shot dead last month in a Nashville bar after reportedly arguing with the owner over a smoking ban, lighting up a cigarette in the non-smoking area of the downtown bar, called Pit and Barrel.

Dr. Ken Paulson, President of the First Amendment Center, delivers his keynote speech during the First Amendment Celebration at Fresno State's Satellite Student Union, Friday morning, December 6, 2013.

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama - NASA researchers at Huntsville's Marshall Space Flight Center have seen something new on the sun that may answer a science riddle dating back to Galileo.

Gee accepted and was approved as president of West Virginia University Friday, making WVU the second school where Gee has served two terms as university leader.

Researchers discovered that skilled typists could not identify the positions of many of the keys on a standard keyboard thus challenging our notions of working memory.

You're driving and after several miles you question if you even braked for that stop sign behind you.

A change that requires candidates for Maury County elected offices to declare their political affiliation will also change the dynamics of campaigning and the focus of voters, observers say.

A hearing involving a California man charged with tampering with evidence in the Vanderbilt rape investigation was postponed until Jan. 9. Miles Finley, 20, of Bermuda Dunes, Calif., is charged alongside Joseph Quinzio, 20, of Palm Desert, Calif., with tampering with evidence in the case.

Former ESPN reporter Erin Andrews is scheduled to get a hearing this morning for her lawsuit against the Nashville Marriott at Vanderbilt University, in which she claims the hotel was negligent in allowing a stalker to videotape her through a peephole.

Graduate students at Vanderbilt University are wading into one of Metro schools' mostly politically charged questions: Do Nashville's charter schools really see more students leave before end-of-year testing than other public schools? And if they do, why is that? Comparing student attrition among Metro's charters, magnet and zoned schools will be ... (more)

That is the conclusion of a study conducted by a team of cognitive psychologists at Vanderbilt and Kobe Universities.

Some Franklin High School seniors are turning their knowledge of the Cold War into a special event for the community with a retrospective symposium Thursday night at the school.

Eighteen academic and administrative leaders at Vanderbilt University have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science this year.

A harassment warrant has been issued against one of the attorneys involved in the Vanderbilt rape case, but he says the allegation is bogus.

Early 20th-century Nashville history, French films behind American remakes and key discoveries about physics are among the 2014 winter term offerings by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Vanderbilt University.