Location: Iraq

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University of Maryland, ACAGI develop first portable video system capable of matching faces with known threats in real time.

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Americans are rejecting war as a tool of national policy in unprecedented numbers, and this trend will impact the mid-term elections and the next presidential race, according to Paul Joseph, a political sociologist at Tufts University. This is happening without clear leadership from any political party, candidate or mass media outlet.

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U.S. Army soldiers who return from military deployment to the Iraq war have an increased risk for mild neuropsychological compromise, including poorer memory and sustained attention performance and greater feelings of tension and confusion, according to a study in the August 2 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on violence and human rights.

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Hilary Stallings' concern for her soldier brother has turned into a passion as well as a directive to all private citizens on how they can help protect our fighting men and women from serious, even fatal head injuries. It doesn't matter how you feel about the war ... we all "have skin in the game," Stallings says.

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A virtual reality program presented today at the University of Haifa conference on VR in rehabilitation will help American soldiers in Iraq. Both those who return from the battlefield and those who are training to enter the killing fields.

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Over the last two years, Iraqi political values have become more secular and nationalistic, even though attitudes toward Americans have deteriorated, according to surveys of nationally representative samples of the population conducted in November 2004 and April 2006.

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Michal R. Belknap, a legal historian at California Western School of Law in San Diego, can compare issues of military justice regarding civilian killings in the Iraq war with the landmark My Lai massacre of the Vietnam era and the Court Martial of Lieutenant William Calley.

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Over the past three years, thousands of American soldiers in Iraq have been horribly injured or killed by improvised explosive devices (IEDs). At Florida State University, one researcher is working on new technologies that could reduce the carnage.

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University of Maryland scientist D.J. Patil and a small group of colleagues have built a digital scientific library for strife-torn Iraq that is making some 17,422 journal titles available to Iraqi scientists and engineers who are decades behind in non-military science and technology.

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A Purdue University history team is assisting Simulex Inc., a Purdue Research Park company, in developing a computer simulation that will help America better understand what matters to citizens living in Baghdad.

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About one-third of U.S. military personnel from the war in Iraq access mental health services after their return home, according to a study.

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To assist in your reporting on the current wave of sectarian violence in Iraq, please consider the following source from the University of Virginia, who is an expert on Islam, has studied at the Golden Mosque of Samarra and has returned from six months in Iran.

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Dr. James McGreevy will have little time to rest as he returns from duty in Iraq as a flight surgeon. He is co-founder and co-inventor of the technology behind Vestan "” a University of Utah spin-off company that is working to make surgical removal of tumors more effective.

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More than three-quarters of Iraqis support a democratic political system but they are divided on the role Islam should play in their country's government, according to a University of Michigan study.

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Children's Healthcare of Atlanta to treat child for Spina Bifida after being found by Georgia Army National Guard's 48th Brigade in Baghdad.

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News on the war in Iraq often focuses on the latest body counts, with little time for context or connection to the Iraqi people. Since last spring, Swarthmore College students have tried to change that by producing the country's only student-run news radio program on the war.

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Dr. R. William Ayres, director of the International Relations program at the University of Indianapolis, says past Iraqi elections offer little hope that next week's voting will reduce the deep ethnic and sectarian divisions.

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University of Maryland Communication Professor Shawn Parry-Giles says President Bush's "Victory in Iraq" speech harkens back to the failed Nixon Doctrine.

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Americans will likely judge the war in Iraq as a failure, says Dominic Tierney, a political science professor at Swarthmore College, even if Al-Qaeda's back is eventually broken and a fairly stable Iraqi government is in place.

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"The nearly 2,000 Americans killed in combat (1,998 on October 24, 2005) in Iraq since 2003 are more than were lost in Vietnam combat in the first four years of U.S. combat (1961-1965, when just over 1800 died). This total is more than were lost in the last two years of combat (1971-1972, when just over 1600 died)," recounts Maurice Isserman.

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University of Maryland constitutional expert and consultant to Iraqi Kurdish leaders, Karol Soltan, is available for interview. Soltan recently returned from Iraq where he served as part of a team that helped develop a proposed constitution for Kurdish representatives to take to the negotiating table.

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Recent anti-war demonstrations have brought American society back to the visible protest era of the 1960s, according to Alexander Bloom, history scholar at Wheaton College.

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An international conference in Westfield, Mass., offers a view of ongoing issues in Iraq and Iran from women on the scene. Widely known women's rights activists and Mideast experts will speak on past and current conditions and chart strategies for the future.

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Rowan University political science professor and presidential scholar Dr. Larry Butler believes the president's February 2 "State of the Union" will further Bush's efforts to gain support for his plan to reform Social Security.

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A tipsheet from Creighton's Political Science and International Relations experts on what they see as the events to watch in 2005.

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News coverage of the war in Iraq will be the subject of a panel discussion at the University of California, San Diego on Tuesday, Nov. 30, at 4:30 p.m. Participants will include a top journalism educator, a leading television national security producer and a highly respected newspaper editorial director. The public is invited to attend the event, which will be held at The Weaver Center of the Institute of the Americas on the UCSD campus.

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A Viewpoint discusses the complex issues concerning the provision of humanitarian relief in the Iraq conflict.

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Boston conference will look back at what was learned from the wars in the Balkans and look forward at viable solutions for reconstruction, reconciliation, and lasting security"”from the perspective of the former Yugoslavia and for those doing similar work in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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The United States has extended credit to Iraq to purchase U.S. goods and services needed for rebuilding the nation.

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Like the administration, the military and the diplomatic service, the American business community had no effective plan to implement post-war reconstruction in Iraq.

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How the news is presented, not the news itself, is putting young adult audiences off, say a pair of researchers who surveyed college students about their wartime media uses, preferences and attitudes.

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Shifting allegiances in the European Union have more to do with European politics than the war in Iraq, says a game theory expert.

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In one of the first books to critically examine the arguments that were given for going to war with Iraq, David Coates, the Worrell Professor of Anglo-American Studies, writes that British Prime Minister Tony Blair engaged in a "comedy of errors" on the road to war.

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As the one-year anniversary of the start of the war in Iraq approaches Friday, a scholar of blunders by U.S. presidents says the failure of intelligence to know that Iraq had no WMDs was "real, but incidental to the strategic miscalculation" by the Bush administration.

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Even though George Bush received a less than warm reception in Great Britain this week, that could actually work in his favor in the U.S., says a political scientist.

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1) McCain-Feingold about more than free speech. 2) Bringing in U.N. troops won't stop Iraq violence.

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In "Ambiguity and Choice in Public Policy," UAB political scientist Nikolaos Zahariadis, Ph.D., examines policymaking when policymakers' goals or beliefs are unclear and inconsistent.

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Tthe best way for the U.S. military to counter the guerilla insurgency in Iraq is to send more Arabic speakers there as soon as possible.

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Disturbing images of U.S. troops under siege in Iraq are shown daily on television and in newspapers. In "Children's Fears of War and Terrorism," the authors discuss the affect traumatic events have on children, even when they're far removed from those events.

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A briefing to release and explain the results of the latest PIPA/Knowledge Network national poll from the University of Maryland's Program on International Policy Attitudes. Poll concerns U.S. attitutdes towards post-war developments in Iraq and questions about the validity of pre-war intelligence.

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As President Bush attempts to mend fences with European leaders in the aftermath of war with Iraq, he would do well to consider the actions of a previous president from Texas, according to Thomas Alan Schwartz, a Vanderbilt University presidential historian.

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Popular culture is a fast-growing field made even more pertinent by the Iraq War and spectacular new technologies. Marshall Fishwick, recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award in Popular Culture, has been selected to edit a new series of books on the topic.

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Although many in the movie business voiced dissent on the war in Iraq, a Purdue University American history expert says the war-related movies that Hollywood produces will not represent the popular opinion of Tinsel Town.

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In what it hopes will not be a case of deja vu, the U.S. military has again claimed a resounding success for its Patriot missiles against Iraqi missiles fired at U.S. bases.

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As rebuilding commences in Iraq, Dr. Harvey Langholtz, peacekeeping expert, is available for comment. Langholtz, a professor of psychology at the College of William and Mary, also trains U.N. peacekeepers.

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Social workers are trained to help people in crisis and their efforts are intended to help citizens form their own structures--which will be important as the rebuilding in Iraq begins. Many people will need basics like food, shelter, and medicine, and they are going to need to create viable livelihoods.

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With the debate underway regarding post-war control of Iraq, a University of Michigan professor says the rebuilding efforts and political control should be handled by the United Nations, not the United States or another country.

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Don't look for an instant upswing in the economy once the war in Iraq is over, says UAB economics professor S.D. Lee, Ph.D.

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1) U.S. needs to take a step back in setting up Iraqi government. 2) 24-hour live coverage may not cover the real story of the war. 3) Non-english websites can translate into a different view of Iraq.

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Wake Forest University Islam expert and author Charles Kimball cautions that leaders should be skeptical of promoting relief efforts carried out by groups with a limited history in the Middle East or with highly visible Christian leaders who have been sharply critical of Islam in the past.