Two Faculty Members Awarded Tenure
The granting of tenure is based on recommendations of the vice president for academic affairs and dean of faculty, and the committee on appointments, with the College president presenting final recommendations to the board. With the granting of tenure comes the title of associate professor. Both will be effective July 1, 2025.
Viva Horowitz (Ph.D., M.S., University of California Santa Barbara; B.A., Swarthmore College) collaborates with the University of Oregon and the Air Force Research Lab. She built dynamic artificial cells as a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard and designed opto-mechanical gyroscopes as a postdoctoral research scholar at Caltech.
Last summer, three Hamilton research students worked alongside Horowitz on coding mechanical resonator networks and creating a microfluidic device that can sort microscopic diamond crystals by their optical characteristics.
In 2024, Horowitz co-authored “Validating an algebraic approach to characterizing resonator networks,” in Scientific Reports with Trevor Scheuing ’23 and researchers at the University of Oregon. They developed Network Mapping and Analysis of Parameters (NetMAP), a new way to analyze resonator networks.
Wei Zhan (Ph.D., Texas A&M University; M.A., Southern Methodist University; B.A., Renmin University of China) focuses her research and teaching on experimental and behavioral economics, applied econometrics, and public economics. She primarily uses laboratory and field experiments to study cooperation and pro-social behavior.
Zhan has co-authored papers with Hamilton colleagues Stephen Wu and Jeffrey Cross that appeared in Economics Bulletin (2023), and she has published in the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (2019) and Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly (2021). For several years, she has presented at the Economic Science Association North America Conference.
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