Chevron Corporation declared that Dr. Alice P. Gast has been elected to Chevron's board of directors and will serve on the company's Audit Committee.

John Watson, chairman, Chevron Corporation said, "Dr. Gast has tremendous technical and industry expertise that will be a valuable addition to our board discussions. We look forward to welcoming her to the board."

Gast, 54, is currently president of Lehigh University, a position she has held since 2006. Before joining Lehigh, Gast was vice president for research, associate provost and Robert T. Haslam chair in chemical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2001 to 2006, and prior to that, was professor of chemical engineering at Stanford University and the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory from 1985 to 2001.

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