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Block third-party cookies (can block ads and tracking cookies).
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Be Aware:
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FOI #19-400 - Subject - Storrs LED Lighting Upgrade, Storrs, Avery Point, and Hartford Law Campuses, #F0500025
Name - Joseph Monahan
Affiliation -
Under the Connecticut Freedom of Information Act § 1-200 et seq., I am requesting copies of the Bid Package/Bid Results either official or unofficial containing the electrical bids and their bid amounts for the above-referenced project.
I am doing a story for The Daily Campus regarding UConn housing revenue trends for 2019 and am asking if Uconn could send me some statistics showing the trends for this year.
FOI #19-397 (11-20-19, 6:04 pm) - Subject - Athletics Salaries & Game Contracts Request
Name - Kevin Cohen
Affiliation - Winthrop Intelligence, LLC
(1) Pursuant to applicable authority, I am writing to request copies of the following “Documents” for the athletic department staff listed below:
Current employment contract and salary (Letter of intent, form agreement, or applicable document / record which shows annual compensation and start/end date of employment). If an employee does not have a formal written agreement, please provide (ideally in a spreadsheet or table format): Name, Compensation, and Start/End Date (or write “At Will” if applicable). 1. Appleman Christian 2. Arndt Joshua 3. Brown Taliek 4. Crevoiserat Lindsay 5. Ferguson Erica Jane 6. Howard Bob 7. Jacobson Jess 8. McCusker Cayleigh 9. Novatin Christie
(2) Pursuant to applicable authority, I am writing to request a copy of any contract or written agreement in force (i.e., signed, fully executed) for non-conference Men's Basketball games listed below plus any additional non-conference games or exhibition games scheduled to be played during the 2019 - 2020 season and future years: Central Connecticut State University 12/29/2019; Indiana University 12/10/2019; Iona College 12/04/2019;
New Jersey Institute of Technology 12/29/2019; Sacred Heart University 11/08/2019; Saint Joseph's University 11/13/2019; Saint Peter's University 12/18/2019; University at Buffalo 11/21/2019; University of Florida 11/17/2019; University of Maine 12/01/2019; University of New Hampshire 12/22/2019
(3) Pursuant to applicable authority, I am writing to request a copy of any contract or written agreement in force (i.e., signed, fully executed) for non-conference Women's Basketball games listed below plus any additional non-conference games or exhibition games scheduled to be played during the 2019 - 2020 season and future years: Baylor University 01/09/2020; Northeastern State University 02/03/2020; Ohio State University 11/24/2019;
University of Oregon 02/03/2020; University of Tennessee at Knoxville 01/23/2020; University of Virginia 11/19/2019
All public records or files concerning, identifying, or relating to any person who had a full-time, part-time, joint, or adjunct University faculty appointment and who applied for, or was accepted in a Chinese Thousand Talents Program ("TTP")
Including, but not limited to, records or files:
a. Identifying University faculty who applied for or were accepted into a TTP;
b. Relating to or constituting an application by or acceptance of a University faculty into a TTP;
c. Relating to or constituting communications about a TTP between: (a) the University (including but not limited to any University employee in any of the following offices; OVPR, Dean, Department Head, Labor Relations); and (b) a TTP or with any person in the Chinese government or with any Chinese scientific or academic institution in China; or
d. Identifying any present of former members of the University faculty who are believed to have failed to have made full or timely disclosure to the University or to the US Government of an application to or acceptance into a TTP.
FOI #19-394 (11-19-19, 4:31 pm) - Subject - IACUC documents
Name - Catharine Krebs
Affiliation - Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
To whom it may concern:
The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), pursuant to the Connecticut Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) C.G.S. § 1-200, requests copies of the following:
Period: January 1, 2015 - present
Scope:
1. For the University of Connecticut, all Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) protocols (approved or reviewed), documents, and communications involving cephalopods, squid, cuttlefish, or octopus.
2. All IACUC documents and communications related to the NSF-funded project IOS-1557914 titled “Characterizing the Role of a Bacterial Consortium in a Host Reproductive Organ”
For the purposes of this request, "communications" shall include, without limitation, e-mails and other electronic communications, letters, faxes, meeting agendas, minutes, notes, summaries of conversations, and any other form of written or recorded communication.
FOI #19-393 - Subject - All Campuses - Purchasing Records
Name - Danick Baron
Affiliation - Smart Procure
We are seeking records for the following campuses:
University of Connecticut Avery Point
University of Connecticut Hartford
University of Connecticut Health Center
University of Connecticut School of Law
University of Connecticut Stamford
University of Connecticut Storrs
University of Connecticut Waterbury
The specific information requested from your record keeping system is:
1. Purchase order number. If purchase orders are not used a comparable substitute is acceptable, i.e., invoice, encumbrance, or check number
2. Purchase date
3. Line item details (Detailed description of the purchase)
4. Line item quantity
5. Line item price
6. Vendor ID number, name, address, contact person and their email address
7. Identify which Campus the PO belongs to
All emails sent to or received from former UConn attorneys Michael Eagen and Paul McCarthy by present members of the UConn Office of Faculty and Staff Labor Relations, the UConn Department of Communications, and the UConn Office of the General Counsel from the dates they left employment at UConn to the present.