Learn English – Visit of, to, or at a research department

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A non-native speaker needs help with the following phrase to be used in the acknowledgments section of a research paper:

"Parts of the this research were conducted during a visit of the International Law Group of Kalamazoo Law School."

All authors of the paper visited that place. I'm especially not sure whether it should be "visit of", "visit to" or "visit at". The length of the visit in question was six months. Maybe I haven't even listed the correct option.

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Parts of this research were conducted during a visit to the International Law Group of Kalamazoo Law School.

In general, you can pay a visit to a person or a place.

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Learn English – ‘attention from/in/of’ the (research) community

It's fine as it is. (Attention from might have been appropriate if you'd omitted the definite article before growing.)

Learn English – Use “of” or “for” with Institute, Department, Office…

I believe you are specifically asking this question to avoid a possible embarrassing translation.

example:

Institute for the Criminally Insane

Most likely means an institute which helps and/or houses the criminally insane

Institute of the Criminally Insane

Perhaps is an institute run by persons who are criminally insane and/or an institute which advances the status of the criminally insane.

The second example is admittedly humorous and is intended to exaggerate the difference in connotation. Your use of either 'of' or 'for' should surely be determined by the context of the actual name it is to be applied to. No doubt someone in your own department's debate has mentioned a similar example to the one I have given.

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