AUBURN, Alabama, July 2 -- Auburn University issued the following news: Auburn has announced that alumnus and Birmingham attorney Beau Byrd will deliver the commencement address during the university's summer commencement exercises on Aug. 3 in Neville Arena. A 1989 accounting graduate, Byrd is currently a partner at the Bradley Law Firm where he specializes in commercial real estate and lending transactions. A member of Birmingham's legal community for more than 30 years, Byrd represents a br  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, July 2 (TNSres) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: The ancient underwater forest about eight miles off the coast of Gulf Shores, Alabama, is known as a time capsule from the last ice age--and for the first time, researchers understand why. Chemical and pollen analyses found the bald cypress trees were buried in sediment from swamp and marsh ecosystems, like those in southeastern United States today. Such low-oxygen environments helped preser  more