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Date of Birth
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25-May-1958
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Place of Birth
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Houston
(Texas, United States of America, Area codes 281, 346, 713, and 832, Area code 281, Area code 713, Area code 832)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Also know as
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Alice P. Gast, Alice Petry Gast
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Alice Petry Gast is the 13th President of Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. She is Lehigh's first female president. An internationally renowned scholar, researcher and academic leader, Gast was named one of the top 100 “Modern Era†engineers in the country under the category of “Leadership†by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. On Jan. 3, 2014, Gast announced that she had accepted the position of president of Imperial College London and will be stepping down from the presidency of Lehigh in July 2014.
During Gast’s tenure, Lehigh completed a campus-wide strategic planning and implementation process, concluded a $500-million capital campaign and has since raised an additional $225 million in new resources for the University. Lehigh also expanded the University’s work in and with the City of Bethlehem, increased the size of the University’s footprint with the addition of the 750-acre Stabler Campus, increased the University’s international presence and has perpetuated and expanded innovative new approaches to student-directed learning with the launch of Lehigh’s Mountaintop Campus initiative.
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