Alice Petry Gast is the 13th President of Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. She is Lehigh's first female president. Born in Houston, Texas, Gast graduated as valedictorian from the University of Southern California in 1980 with a B. Sc. in chemical engineering. She completed her postgraduate work at Princeton University, receiving a M.A. (1981) and Ph.D. (1984) in chemical engineering, and was a Hertz Fellow.

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  • Alice Petry Gast is the 13th President of Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. She is Lehigh's first female president. Born in Houston, Texas, Gast graduated as valedictorian from the University of Southern California in 1980 with a B. Sc. in chemical engineering. She completed her postgraduate work at Princeton University, receiving a M.A. (1981) and Ph.D. (1984) in chemical engineering, and was a Hertz Fellow. She spent a postdoctoral year completing a NATO fellowship at the École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles in Paris. From 1985 to 2001 she taught at Stanford University, and then moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she served as the Vice President for Research and Associate Provost until her appointment to Lehigh in 2006. Gast is married to Bradley J. Askins, a computer scientist. They have two children, Rebecca and David. Gast is not the first Lehigh President recruited from MIT. In 1895 they invited Thomas Messinger Drown to take the Presidency, for whom Drown Hall is named.
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  • 2006–present
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  • Alice Petry Gast is the 13th President of Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. She is Lehigh's first female president. Born in Houston, Texas, Gast graduated as valedictorian from the University of Southern California in 1980 with a B. Sc. in chemical engineering. She completed her postgraduate work at Princeton University, receiving a M.A. (1981) and Ph.D. (1984) in chemical engineering, and was a Hertz Fellow.
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  • Alice Gast
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