Researchers in the UConn School of Social Work’s Institute for Violence Prevention and Reduction conduct the nation's first multi-state study of the effectiveness of domestic violence shelters and find that such shelters in Connecticut, as well as nationally, play a key role in helping protect victims and in providing important services.

The list of licenses and options granted was supplied by the University’s Center for Science and Technology Commercialization. Suib, Steven Voltage-induced Catalyst Augmentation Catelectric Corp. Brand, Mark ‘Raise the Roof’ Trademark for Certain Rhododendron Plants Monrovia Nursery Co. Sotzing, Gregory Conductive Polymers Sekisui Chemical Co. Ltd. Michel, Laurent Constraint-based Search Models Dynamic Decision Technologies Inc. […]

The displacement of half a million people from Iraq as a result of the U.S.-led war is a humanitarian crisis that has long-term consequences for Iraq and neighboring countries, according to social work researchers Kathryn Libal and Scott Harding. Yet, they say, while the media have focused on U.S. military casualties and other costs of the war in Iraq, the displacement crisis has been largely ignored. Since 2006, the two researchers have been studying how services are being provided to Iraqi refugees in Jordan.

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When Charles Duelfer (’74 MA, history) was sent to Iraq in 2004 by President George W. Bush to find out why the administration had been wrong about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, he was assured by his old friend George Tenet, CIA director, that they wanted “just the truth.” But Duelfer responded, “How deep do […]