BELLESILES UPDATE: A reader from Emory writes:

As for the investigation into Bellesiles’ scholarship, expect an announcement from the University on that any day now. That’s what the PR folks have indicated. Last week, a faculty member was told by an Emory media relations officer that the University would have a new announcement in the next 7 to 10 days.

I’ve been told that the independent panel charged with evaluating Bellesiles’ work reported back to the university on July 1. It’s not clear why it’s taken so long to release the results from that panel, but the dean of Emory College– Robert Paul, who’s handling the investigation– was on vacation most of last month. It’s likely that they waited for Paul to return to campus before they made their new announcement. Far from a deliberate attempt to delay and obstruct, this may simply be a slow process made even slower by Paul’s summer vacation.

One hopes. Many rumors have suggested that Bellesiles was going to be bought out, with no formal finding of wrongdoing. But they’re just rumors.