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Early religion provided humans a way to relate to each other and the world around them, offering significant survival and reproductive advantages.

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Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond has several faculty members who can serve as experts for reporting purposes on the various environmental, biological, economic and social impacts of the British Petroleum oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Southeastern Louisiana University English Professor Norman German’s recently published novel about minor league baseball in the ‘50s ("Switch-Pitchers) has been added to the Baseball Hall of Fame’s library in Cooperstown, N.Y.

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The Maurepas Swamp, an important wetland located near New Orleans, is on a clear path toward becoming open water unless a Mississippi River diversion or some other source of freshwater is introduced.

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Recent high profile sex scandals are a reminder to business owners and managers to ensure their companies have strong sexual harassment policies in place.

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With a grant from the U.S. Department of Education, researchers at Southeastern Louisiana University are using RFID technology as a new tool to teach children American Sigh Language.

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Shoplifting in retail outlets is becoming an increasing problem, but RFID technology can help to track the in-store whereabouts of productions and reduce shoplifting incidents, according to an expert in the technology.

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The relatively new RuBee automatic identification technology offers businesses and operations a number of advantages over the more established radio frequency identification (RFID) but doesn't necessarily replace RFID.

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Southeastern Louisiana University's School of Nursing -- one of the largest nursing programs in the country -- is working with several clinical partners to help meet the growing shortage of qualified nurses. And a new program provides graduates of nursing associate degree and diploma schools the opportunity to earn a bachelor's degree through an accelerated, completely online approach.

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A Southeastern Louisiana University physiciist has developed a process of predicting deformations in materials that has the potential to identify weaknesses in structures ranging from massive bridge construction to the tiniest elements of nanotechnology.

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Southeastern Louisiana University announces the implementation of a wide-ranging emergency alert system that includes everything from a loud siren and public address system to text messaging and e-mail alerts.

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A new report by a Southeastern Louisiana University management professor and issued by the IBM-based Center for the Business of Government examines how blogging is becoming an increasingly common method for elected officials and public agencies to communicate with constituencies. The report chronicles blogging activities at all levels of government, including members of Congress, governors, mayors police and fire departments.

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Southeastern Louisiana University science students are gaining important business and technology entrepreneurship skills through a new program that puts them in charge of their own non-profit business in cooperation with area businesses and industry.

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Four Southeastern Louisiana University graduate students are involved in separate but related research projects that are addressing the loss of crucial Louisiana wetlands. The projects are being funded by CREST, an alliance of a dozen Louisiana and Mississippi universities which was formed to add to the body of research and best practices to ensure productive coastal habitats.

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Historian Michael Kurtz, Southeastern Louisiana University, has released a new book on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Entitled "The JFK Assassination Debates: Lone Gunman versus Conspiracy," the book attempts to bring into focus the often-heated arguments that continue to swirl around that event.

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Dr. William Robison, head of the Department of History and Political Science at Southeastern Louisiana University, for the past five years has presented an annual fun Halloween lecture that explores the relationship between serious history and pop culture. This year's lecture (October 31) is focused on Frankenstein ("It's Alive! The History of Frankenstein from Mary Shelley to Boris Karloff to Mel Brooks and Beyond").

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Twelve Southeastern Louisiana University faculty members were awarded a total of $610,360 in grants from the Louisiana Board of Regents covering a wide variety of creative projects, scientific research, and new equipment purchases.

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Three months after Hurricane Katrina ripped through southeast Louisiana, a survey of displaced and regular students at Southeastern Louisiana University shows that many continue to feel its impact psychologically, physically, and economically.

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Dr. Barbara Forrest of Southeastern Louisiana University has written about and frequently lectures on the issue of intelligent design, particularly its threat to public school science education.

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Educators and students from throughout the country will network on alternative certification for teachers at an annual conference.

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On the 40th anniversary of the JFK assassination, an historian is still researching the controversy, and is writing his second book on the "unsolved mystery." For 30 years, he has taught a popular elective course on the assassination, which he feels was the result of conspiracy.

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A new program at Southeastern Louisiana University's offers teaching certification, a master's degree and the convenience of online courses.

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Understanding plants' battles for survival, says wetlands biologist Paul Keddy, would not only be a valuable addition to scientific knowledge, it also could be a factor in saving threatened wetlands.

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Poet and short story author Paul Ruffin's first novel, "Pompeii Man," a mystery-thriller set on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and in New Orleans, has been published by Louisiana Literature Press.

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Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, La., is offering out-of-state tuition fee waivers of as much as $2,664 to students from Mississippi, Arkansas, and Texas.