Rebecca Blank in 2012. For decades, America’s official poverty rate was based on an unrealistic formula. She figured out how to fix it and, joining the Obama administration, did so.

MADISON (WKOW) — Tributes to former UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank have been pouring in from around the world since news of her tragic death came out Saturday. Now, the person who knows her best ...

Rebecca Blank, who led the University of Wisconsin-Madison for nearly a decade through budget battles and a pandemic, died Friday after a seven-month battle with cancer. She was 67.

MADISON (WKOW) — Rebecca Blank, the former chancellor of UW-Madison, died late Friday night after a seven-month cancer battle. She was 67. Blank was an economist and educator who served in the United ...

University of Wisconsin Chancellor Rebecca Blank delivered a lecture Wednesday about the role of Christian faith and morality in market economics and business, and how she’s balanced living as an ...

Rebecca Blank, an economist who served as chancellor of the University of Wisconsin at Madison and was acting commerce secretary under President Barack Obama, died Feb. 17. She was 67. The death ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --Rebecca Blank, who had been elected last year to take over as the first woman president at Northwestern University, is stepping down as the school's president-elect, ...

Incoming Northwestern University President Rebecca Blank will no longer take on the role because she has an aggressive form of cancer, she said. “The job of president requires multiple events ...

Former University of Wisconsin Chancellor Rebecca Blank died of cancer Friday evening, according to a message to UW students from current UW Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin.. After a seven month-long ...

Northwestern president-elect steps down after cancer diagnosis Renowned economist Rebecca Blank would have been the first woman to serve as Northwestern’s president.

Rebecca Blank will not serve as Northwestern’s next President after learning she has an aggressive form of cancer, she announced Monday. In an email to the NU community, Blank said that she had ...