FOI #24-259 (05-20-24, 12:07 pm) - Subject - Email correspondence
Name - Jack G
Affiliation -
As an advisor for a non-profit watchdog group against nuclear Iran, under the Connecticut Freedom of Information Act, I am requesting all email correspondence between student and UConn employee Zongjie Wang sent and/or received between May 20, 2021, and May 20, 2024. I am also requesting all application and enrollment records and materials of student from UConn, if available.
I would also like to request a waiver of all fees on the grounds that the disclosure of the requested information is in the public interest and is not being sought for commercial purposes.
FOI #24-258 (05-20-24, 10:08 am) - Subject - Email communications
Name - Faculty
Affiliation - University of Connecticut
This request relates to emails sent by UConn employee Zongjie Wang from March 1, 2022, until May 16, 2024. I am requesting all email communication by the abovementioned party, including attachments, about UConn employee Junbo Zhao. Emails of specific interest are:
1. Communications to the United States Department of Energy (email addresses ending in @__.doe.gov, where __ can be "ee", "hq", etc.)
2. Communications to the United States National Science Foundation (email addresses ending in @nsf.gov)
3. Communications to UConn leadership (John Chandy, Emmanouil Anagnostou, Kazem Kazerounian, Pamir Alpay, Anne D’Alleva, and Radenka Maric)
This request relates to emails sent by UConn employee Zongjie Wang from March 1, 2022, until May 18, 2024. I am requesting all email communication by the abovementioned party, including attachments, about UConn employee Junbo Zhao. Emails of specific interest are:
1. Communications to Uzi (Yury) Dvorkin with email addresses: yvd204@nyu.edu and ydvorki1@jhu.edu
2. Communications to Peng Zhang with email address: peng.zhang@uconn.edu and P.Zhang@stonybrook.edu
3. Communications to C. Lindsay Anderson with email address: cla28@cornell.edu
4. Communications to Mostafa Ardakani with email address: mostafa.ardakani@utah.edu
5. Communications to Bing Yan with email address: bxyeee@rit.edu
6. Communications to Mikhail Bragin
7. Communications to Tim Hansen with email address: timothy.hansen@sdstate.edu
Michael Ayele (a.k.a) W
Michael A. Ayele (a.k.a) W ORCID.: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5780-6457
FOI #24-257 (05-20-24, 12:41 am) - Subject - Aftermath of May 23rd 2014 Mass-Murder in Santa Barbara, California - Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)
Name - Michael Ayele (a.k.a) W
Affiliation - Michael A. Ayele (a.k.a) W ORCID.: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5780-6457
What I am requesting for prompt disclosure are records in your possession detailing [1] your discussions about the provisions of FERPA (i) enabling the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Department of Education (DoED) as well as state and local educational authorities to obtain from “any private or public elementary or secondary school” “disciplinary records with respect to a suspension or expulsion of a student;” (ii) having been amended as part of the Higher Education Amendments of 1998 to “clarify that schools may disclose to the public the final results of any disciplinary proceeding in which a student has been found responsible for a crime of violence or nonforcible sex offense;” [2] the extent of your knowledge on any formal or informal petition submitted by the GAO, the DOJ, the DoED as well as state and local educational authorities to obtain (prior to May 23rd 2014) the academic records of sexist involuntary celibate (incel) Elliot Oliver Robertson Rodger (date of birth: July 24th 1991) pursuant to the provisions of FERPA; [3] your discussions about the decision of Santa Barbara County, California to publicly recognize on (or around) February 18th 2015 that (i) their Sheriff’s Office “has worked with many other law enforcement agencies” following the mass-murder committed by Elliot Oliver Robertson Rodger on (or around) May 23rd 2014; (ii) their Sheriff’s Office was made aware of Elliot Oliver Robertson Rodger “educational background” after the Department of Justice (DOJ) Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) served Federal Grand Jury subpoenas to obtain them; (iii) their Sheriff’s Office had served several search warrants on the email accounts, the YouTube account, the Facebook page and the cell-phone of Elliot Oliver Robertson Rodger; (iv) their Sheriff’s Office had recovered numerous weapons from Elliot Oliver Robertson Rodger including but not limited to three-automatic 9 millimeters (mm) pistols and two knives; (v) a welfare check was conducted by members of the Isla Vista Foot Patrol on (or around) April 30th 2014 to determine whether Elliot Oliver Robertson Rodger should be involuntarily committed at the Santa Barbara County Department of Behavioral Wellness pursuant to the provisions of California Welfare & Institutions Code Section 5150; (vi) their investigation revealed that Elliot Oliver Robertson Rodger was a racist a fascinated by Nazis such as Joseph Goebbels and Heinrich Himmler; (vii) their investigation revealed that Elliot Oliver Robertson Rodger was a sexist who blamed women for the problems and difficulties he had in life even though he was in reality a very privileged white men who could financially afford a Black BMW as well as other expensive goods and services provided in the State of California (when he was an undergraduate student at Santa Barbara City College)...
Please see the attached document that will be sent via email to Kayla Postler and Megan Philippi.
FOI #24-256 (05-17-24, 5:31 pm) - Subject - Use of force data
Name - Joshua Eaton
Affiliation - Hearst Connecticut Media Group
I request the database of statewide police use of force reports compiled by the Institute for Municipal and Regional Policy, which is located at UConn's Hartford campus.
FOI #24-254 (05-16-24, 8:53 am) - Subject - Email Communications
Name - Christine Brown
Affiliation - Nesenoff & Miltenberg
This request relates to emails sent by UConn employees Junbo Zhao and Shan Zuo from March 19, 2024, until May 16, 2024. I am requesting all email communication by the abovementioned parties, including attachments, about my client, UConn employee Zongjie Wang. Emails of specific interest are:
1. communications to the United States Department of Energy (email addresses ending in @__.doe.gov, where __ can be "ee", "hq", etc.)
2. communications to the United States National Science Foundation (email addresses ending in @nsf.gov)
3. communications to UConn leadership (John Chandy, Emmanouil Anagnostou, Kazem Kazerounian, Pamir Alpay, Anne D’Alleva, and Radenka Maric)
1. INCIDENT REPORTS AND RECORDS -Any and all incident reports, records, and complaints pertaining to * alleged claims of sexual assault.
2. PROTOCOL, POLICIES, AND PROCEDURES - The policies and protocol regarding sexual assault allegations affiliated with the school's students and guests.
3. Documents evidencing the steps that student affairs or similar entities took at the time of the reporting, and following the reporting, of the alleged incidents in correspondence with such policies.
4. INDIVIDUAL STAFF AND ENTITIES-The names of all individual staff and entities responding to, or made aware of, the reports by *
I would like to access Data Dashboards to check 5 previous years' admission and enrollment data in PhD level programs at your university but I can find them it would be highly appreciated let me know where I can access them or provide me the requested information.
Admission and Yield Funnel
applied? / admitted? /enrolled?
Human Development and Family Sciences PhD
Integrative Studies PhD
Political Science PhD
Sociology PhD