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About Peter Likins
- Peter William Likins (born July 4, 1936) was president of the University of Arizona from 1997 until his retirement in summer 2006.Previous posts in order of most recent were: President of Lehigh University Provost for professional schools at Columbia University, Dean of Columbia's engineering school.At each of these universities, Likins was a professor of engineering.
- During his administration at Lehigh, he and the Reverend John E.
- Brooks, S.J.
- of the College of the Holy Cross were the two university presidents contacted by the Ivy League in the first stage of the formation of the Patriot League during the early-1980s.
- This effectively removed Lehigh from contention for a Division I-AA playoff berth. He attended Stanford University, where he became a member of Delta Tau Delta International Fraternity.During the last semester of his presidency, a wire from his pacemaker poked a hole in his heart, causing him to nearly faint during an emergency drill being conducted on campus at the time.
- He underwent open heart surgery soon thereafter.
- Under different conditions emergency medical personnel might not have been able to respond in time to save him.
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