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Louisiana-Lafayette's game next week against in-state rival LSU is a sellout.

The university says all individual game tickets for the Feb. 26 matchup at M.L. "Tigue" Moore Field sold out Tuesday just before 3 p.m.

The Ragin' Cajuns and Tigers are meeting at the "Tigue" for the first time since March 2002. That game saw Louisiana-Lafayette's Andy Gros toss a complete game shutout en route to a 7-0 win.

First pitch for the Feb. 26 contest is at 6 p.m.

Louisiana-Lafayette football coach Mark Hudspeth says he's seeking a replacement for defensive coordinator Greg Stewart.

Hudspeth said Wednesday that Stewart will not return to the Ragin' Cajuns' coaching staff for the 2013 season. He did not indicate what sparked the coaching move but thanked Stewart for his contributions that led to the team's 18 wins, including a pair of New Orleans Bowl titles over the last two years.

The National Institutes of Health says it will relocate 110 of its chimpanzees from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette's New Iberia Research Center and to stop using the animals for biomedical testing.

The Advocate reports that the plan was announced Friday.

The move comes as NIH decides how best to implement recommendations that call for more stringent standards on biomedical research using chimpanzees, considered the closest relative to humans in the animal kingdom.

The University of Louisiana-Lafayette's math education department plans to recruit teachers during the fall for a new program designed to boost students' interest in careers in the sciences.

The Advocate reports the university received a $1.8 million grant from the National Science Foundation to create a program called Louisiana Mathematics Masters in the Middle. It's designed to provide professional development to teachers in Iberia, Lafayette and Vermilion parishes.