Honors theses and embargos

Given the recent decisions by the Department of Biology, and the Department of Environmental Science and Biology to embargo their Master Thesis collections, I decided I should check with the advisers of those departments regarding some 2015 Senior Honor Theses I am trying to post. Here is the email I sent and the individual responses I got:

Dear Huey, Rey and Chris,

I am getting ready to contact this year’s group of Honors students for permission to post their theses in Digital Commons. Given the embargo request for Master’s theses for your departments, I wanted to check with the three of you first since you were each an adviser for one of the students. Here are the students in question:

Kendra Andrew - Hing

Amber Altrieth – Sia

Sara Grillo – Norment

If you wish, I will wait to contact these students until a future date (2017). Please advise.

Thanks,

Kim

Hi Kim - As far as I am concerned, there does not normally need to be an embargo on senior honors theses, as they usually are not publishable. So - you can post Sara's thesis if she gives the go-ahead.
Thanks,
Chris (ESB)

Hi Kim,

It is fine to post Amber Altrieth's thesis. Thank you for asking.

Rey A. Sia, Ph.D.

Dear Kim,

Please do not post the thesis of Kendra Andrew on Digital Commons, as we are still carrying out additional experiments on her project.

Also, please do not post the thesis of Noah Reger, a Master student who recently graduated from Biology.

Best,

Huey Hing