Chemical Engineer To Head Lehigh University

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Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa., has named Alice P. Gast as its effective Aug. 1. Gast, 47, is currently vice president for research and associate provost at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she is also Robert T. Haslam Professor of Chemical Engineering. With her selection, she garnered accolades for her research and teaching from academic leaders. I am tremendously honored to be asked to serve Lehigh University as its 13th president, Gast said after being selected. She will succeed Gregory C. Farrington, who served for eight years and will step down in June. The 140-year-old private university has more than 400 full-time faculty and 7,000 graduate and undergraduate students. Gast has been in her role at MIT since 2001. She moved there after 16 years at Stanford University, where she was associate chair of the chemical engineering department. She received a B.S. degree from the University of Southern California and a Ph.D. ...