21 Facts About Rebecca Blank

Rebecca Margaret Blank was an American economist and academic administrator.

Rebecca Blank married Hanns Kuttner in 1994, and they had a daughter.

In 2022, Rebecca Blank fell ill while vacationing in Europe, and was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

Rebecca Blank died at a hospice facility in Fitchburg, Wisconsin, on February 17,2023, at the age of 67.

From 1997 to 1999, Rebecca Blank was a member of Council of Economic Advisers in the 1990s during the Clinton Administration, participating in White House decision-making on economic, social, and regulatory policy issues.

Rebecca Blank taught at Princeton University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Rebecca Blank served as Locke's appointed Board Representative to the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation.

On November 18,2010, United States Department of Commerce announced that Rebecca Blank would become its Acting Deputy Secretary.

Rebecca Blank became the Acting Secretary of Commerce for the first time on August 1,2011, after Gary Locke became US Ambassador to the People's Republic of China.

Rebecca Blank was designated Acting Secretary of Commerce a second time on June 11,2012.

Rebecca Blank transferred his powers to Blank for an undetermined length of time.

On March 18,2013, Rebecca Blank announced that she was leaving the Obama administration to become chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Rebecca Blank announced that she would accept the position the same day.

Rebecca Blank was previously a finalist for the position in 2008, when Carolyn "Biddy" Martin was selected as Chancellor.

Rebecca Blank engaged in several efforts to highlight the history of marginalized populations at the university, which included the establishment of a Public History Project and efforts to acknowledge the Ho-Chunk Nation, on whose ancestral land the UW-Madison campus sits, as well as the presence of Divine Nine fraternities and sororities on campus.

Rebecca Blank completed a $4 billion fundraising campaign called "All Ways Forward", the largest in school history, and set in motion long-delayed campus building projects that have included a new academic home for the College of Letters and Science, a new School of Music performance center, and a home for the newly established School of Computer, Data, and Information Sciences.

However, Rebecca Blank was unable to secure borrowing ability for UW-Madison, something its peer institutions were able to do.

Rebecca Blank was unable to secure a pledge of $100 million by Foxconn to provide funding for a new research building at the College of Engineering.

Rebecca Blank was to succeed Morton Schapiro in the summer of 2022.

However, on July 11,2022, Rebecca Blank announced that she would not be able to assume the role, following her cancer diagnosis.

Rebecca Blank wrote extensively on the interaction between the macro economy, the labor market, government social policy programs, and the behavior and well-being of low-income families.