BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, March 6 -- The Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center issued the following news: The Louisiana Law Review Volume 81 Board of Editors has announced the 16 Junior Associates selected for publication in Volume 82, noting the decision process was extremely difficult this year due of the number of well-written student pieces. Since 1938, the Louisiana Law Review has served as Louisiana's flagship legal journal and has become a vibrant forum for scholarship in c more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, March 6 -- The Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center issued the following news: The LSU Journal of Energy Law and Resources Volume IX Editorial Board has named the students who have been elected for the Volume X Editorial Board, including: * Editor-in-Chief: Reagan Moody * Managing Editor: Mary Eliza Baker * Notes and Comments Editor: Mike Phillips * Articles Editors: Bailey Anderson, Marisa Del Turco * Production Editors: Alyssa Craton, Karly Kyzar  more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, March 5 -- Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry issued the following news release on March 4, 2021: Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry has authorized an agreement to release Freeport-McMoRan Inc. from all claims for past impacts to the Louisiana Coastal Zone, effectively ending longtime litigation between the company and coastal parishes in the State. In taking today's action, Attorney General Landry made clear that - while Freeport chose to resolve its liability  more PR

MONTGOMERY, Alabama, March 6 -- Alabama Attorney General Steve T. Marshall issued the following news release: Alabama Attorney General announced that Alabama has secured a major victory in the District of Columbia District Court, which ruled Friday that plaintiffs could not force the federal Archivist to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment and alter the U.S. Constitution because the deadline to ratify the proposed amendment expired decades ago. In February 2020, Alabama, Louisiana, Nebraska, Sou more PR

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, March 5 (TNSJou) -- Tulane University issued the following news release: Social workers are on the front lines of the public and mental health crisis surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic as their clients deal with everything from job loss and food insecurity to housing issues and parenting challenges. They are an integral part of the helping community, yet they are as susceptible to job burnout as anyone on the front lines, according to authors of a paper in International  more PR

SHREVEPORT, Louisiana, March 4 (TNSRes) -- Centenary College of Louisiana issued the following news release: Centenary College's Red River Poetry Society will host Caddo Parish Poet Laureate Ashley Mace Havird for a virtual reading on Friday, March 5, at 6:30 p.m. Havird will read from her new book, Wild Juice, available this month from LSU Press. The reading is free and open to the public. Participants can access the Zoom event at centenary.edu/havird or via the link in an event on the Colleg more PR

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, March 4 -- Entergy issued the following news release: Entergy Corporation and the Entergy Charitable Foundation awarded $4 million in contributions to nonprofit organizations during the fourth quarter of 2020, bringing total shareholder-funded contributions for the year to $18.9 million. Entergy shareholders helped power stronger, healthier communities in 2020 through major initiatives including COVID-19 pandemic relief giving, which totaled more than $3.3 million, and  more PR

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, March 3 -- Entergy issued the following news release on March 2, 2021: Six major utilities today - including Entergy Corporation - announced a plan to ensure that electric vehicle drivers have access to a seamless network of charging stations connecting major highway systems from the Atlantic Coast through the Midwest and South, and into the Gulf Coast and Central Plains regions. The Electric Highway Coalition - made up of American Electric Power, Dominion Energy, Duke  more PR

FRANKFORT, Kentucky, March 4 -- Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron issued the following news release on March 3, 2021: Attorney General Daniel Cameron today joined Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry and a coalition of 21 states in support of the constitutionality of Tennessee's law requiring a 48-hour waiting period before an abortion. Last month, a divided panel in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit declined to lift a District Court's injunction against Tennessee's wai more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, March 6 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following news: Gov. John Bel Edwards announced his appointments to several Louisiana boards and commissions. Early Identification of Deaf or Hard of Hearing Infants Advisory Council The Early Identification of Deaf or Hard of Hearing Infants Advisory Council advises the Office of Public Health on various aspects of the development and implementation of the Early Identification of Hearing Impairment in Infants  more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, March 6 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following news: Gov. John Bel Edwards announced the launch of a new program that will provide financial assistance to Louisiana renters and landlords experiencing financial hardship as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The program is funded through the federal Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2021 (H.R. 133). This relief package includes $25 billion for emergency rental assistance, more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, March 3 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following news: Following almost six weeks of improvements in Louisiana's COVID case counts and a sustained decrease in COVID-related hospitalizations, Gov. John Bel Edwards announced today that Louisiana will move forward to Phase 3. This will bring most COVID restrictions back to where they were last September. Louisiana's statewide mask mandate, which has been in place since last July, will remain in place. The more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, March 1 -- The Louisiana Democratic Party issued the following statement on Feb. 27, 2021: * * * Louisiana Democratic Party Chair Katie Bernhardt issued the following statement on last night's vote on the American Rescue Act: "House Democrats worked through the night to fund vaccines, safeguard our schools, and get $1,400 checks to American families. Republicans Mike Johnson, Clay Higgins, Steve Scalise, and Garrett Graves demonstrated their disregard for Louisianans more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, March 4 (TNSJou) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: In March 2020, LSU Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Brian Wolshon and a group of fellow researchers compared roadway travel statistics throughout the state of Florida for that month versus March 2019. This was done as states began to take their respective preventative measures against the coronavirus pandemic. The goal then, as it is now, was to understand the early impacts of more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, March 2 (TNSRes) -- The Louisiana State University Ag Center issued the following news: The LSU AgCenter is surveying agricultural producers to estimate damage totals resulting from last month's freezing weather. The recent freezing weather came just as farmers were getting back on their feet from last year's disastrous hurricane season. Kurt Guidry, LSU AgCenter economist, said he is compiling information for a report on how the freeze has affected agriculture, and he more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, March 5 (TNSRes) -- The Louisiana State University Ag Center issued the following news: The winter weather that the Bayou State experienced the week of Mardi Gras severely damaged many of our plants. You may have thought your palm trees escaped the cold without too much damage, only to notice freeze injury begin to show up a week or 10 days later. This delayed onset of outward signs of cold damage is typical for palms. If you're now wondering what to do with a freeze-da more PR

RUSTON, Louisiana, March 4 -- Louisiana Tech University issued the following news: Judge Jeff, Susan, Gabrielle, and Stephen Cox, all of Bossier City, have made a $150,000 gift to benefit Louisiana Tech University's College of Business. Made to honor the legacy of Jeff's father, Orville "O.D." Cox, funds will support current and future programming within the College. To further honor O.D., the atrium in the College's newest wing has been named the Cox Family Atrium. "Hundreds of students will more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, March 4 (TNSRes) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: LSU Mechanical Engineering Professor Manas Gartia was recently given a National Science Foundation CAREER Award for his project, "Multimodal Approach for Label-Free Imaging of Lipidomic Changes in Brain," which seeks to establish a method to image lipids, or fatty acids, in brain cells and tissues. Specifically, Gartia is investigating whether Alzheimer's Disease is associated with an alte more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, March 5 (TNSGra) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: As part of a larger National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) restoration project, Louisiana Sea Grant and Texas Sea Grant are collaborating on a three-year, $2.48 million project to find and develop better bycatch reduction devices (BRDs) for the commercial shrimp industry in the Gulf of Mexico. The project begins this year. "The primary goal is to reduce commercial shrimp tr more PR

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, March 5 (TNSRes) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: Louisiana Sea Grant is part of a $5 million, five-year Gulf-wide effort to develop a genetically superior oyster broodstock for aquaculture. LSG's share of the research funding is $200,000. The Gulf States Marine Fisheries Commission Oyster Consortia's primary objectives are to develop improved lines of eastern oysters for the oyster industry and develop platforms to distribute improved oy more PR

RUSTON, Louisiana, Feb. 27 -- Louisiana Tech University issued the following news: Louisiana Tech University's Science and Technology Education Center (SciTEC) in the College of Education recently announced plans to establish the STEM Collective for Innovative Louisiana Stakeholders (SCILS) Center. The Center, established in partnership with STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) stakeholders along the Interstate-20 corridor, will serve Louisiana's Region 8 from Caddo Parish t more PR

RUSTON, Louisiana, March 5 (TNSRes) -- Louisiana Tech University issued the following news: Dr. Kirk St.Amant, Eunice C. Williamson Endowed Chair and Director of the Center for Health and Medical Communication in the School of Literature and Language at Louisiana Tech, has received the 2020 Kitty O. Locker Researcher Award from the Association for Business Communication (ABC) for excellence in business communication research. ABC, which has grown into the premier international business communi more PR

COLUMBUS, Mississippi, March 3 -- Mississippi University for Women issued the following news release: The Speech and Hearing Center at Mississippi University for Women is partnering with the ALS Association of Louisiana-Mississippi Chapter to provide communication devices for Mississippians with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). "Approximately 5,000 people in the US are diagnosed with ALS each year. This is about 15 new cases per day. Every 90 minutes, someone is diagnosed with the disease  more PR

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma, March 3 -- The Oklahoma State Senate issued the following news release: The Senate has approved Senate Bill 8, which would designate the route that largely follows State Highway 69 in Oklahoma as the "Historic Jefferson Highway Route." The measure is authored by Sen. Micheal Bergstrom, R-Adair. Established in 1915, the Jefferson Highway is the oldest highway to pass through Oklahoma and spans the state from the Kansas to Texas borders. This highway cuts through the he more PR

SHREVEPORT, Louisiana, March 6 -- Southwestern Electric Power issued the following news release: The Arkansas moratorium for utility service disconnections for non-payment is scheduled to end May 3, 2021. Southwestern Electric Power Co. (SWEPCO) continues to work with customers who are struggling to pay electric bills during the pandemic. "COVID-19 has proven to be a real hardship for many of our customers," said Paul Pratt, SWEPCO director of Customer Services & Marketing. "If you are having  more PR

SHREVEPORT, Louisiana, March 5 -- Southwestern Electric Power issued the following news release: The American Electric Power Foundation has announced four individual $10,000 grants to Arkansas nonprofit organizations providing critical services in areas served by Southwestern Electric Power Co. (SWEPCO). The AEP Foundation is funded by American Electric Power (Nasdaq: AEP) and its utility operating units, including SWEPCO, which serves approximately 123,000 customers in Arkansas. The organiza more PR

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, March 5 -- Tulane University issued the following news release: Haunted by memories of Hurricane Katrina's devastation, an alumni couple with deep ties to Tulane and New Orleans has made a $2 million gift to the university that aims to pack a one-two punch against climate change and coastal erosion. David and Jane Flowerree have established two professorships aimed at finding solutions to the environmental crisis facing Louisiana and other areas threatened by rising seas more PR

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, March 6 -- Tulane University issued the following news release: In 2019, then Tulane University seniors Hannah Eherenfeldt and Benjamin Knapp won the Novel Tech Challenge for their medical simulation startup, ReSuture. The company enables medical students and surgical residents to learn vascular surgical skills in a controlled and monitored environment. Their victory came with a grand prize of $10,000, which they put towards a patent, further product development and equ more PR

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, March 3 (TNSJou) -- Tulane University issued the following news release: If people across the globe were to follow their country's recommendations for a healthy diet, the impact of their food choices on greenhouse gas emissions would vary greatly depending on where they live. Someone following U.S. dietary guidelines would have the largest carbon footprint, while a resident of India would have the smallest, according to a new Tulane University study in the Nutrition Jo more PR

LAFAYETTE, Louisiana, March 3 -- The University of Louisiana's Lafayette Campus issued the following news story: University of Louisiana at Lafayette students who enroll in the state's only master's in informatics program will soon be able to complete degree requirements online or in a traditional classroom setting. The Louisiana Board of Regents approved an online option for UL Lafayette's existing master's degree in informatics in January; students who opt for the online format and are accep more PR