Gregory C. Farrington is an American academic administrator. He is the executive director of theCalifornia Academy of Sciences inSan Francisco. Prior to his appointment to this position in 2007, Farrington served as the 12th President ofLehigh University, and prior to his move to Lehigh in 1998 he served as Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at theUniversity of Pennsylvania.
Farrington earned aB.S. in chemistry fromClarkson University in 1968 and aPh.D. in chemistry fromHarvard University in 1972. In 1984 Farrington received anhonorary doctorate from the Faculty of Mathematics and Science atUppsala University,Sweden.[1]Farrington has published more than 100 technical articles and holds over two dozen patents.
As President of Lehigh, Farrington oversaw the construction of the apartments and shops at Campus Square and the multimillion-dollar renovation of Linderman Library. His successor at Lehigh has beenAlice P. Gast, formerly ofMIT.
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