Rebecca Blank, an economist who served as chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has died, less than a year after announcing that she had an aggressive form of cancer. She was 67.
Barni Shiferaw crossed paths with Rebecca Blank several times during his senior year at UW-Madison. As the vice president for the Class of 2022, he met with Blank to talk about changes the student body wanted to see.
“It was an honor for me,” he said. “There’s not a lot of people at this campus who have the combination of the intelligence that she does, but then also the personability to make these things happen.”
UW-Madison’s Institute for Research on Poverty is partnering with the Center for Guaranteed Income Research at the University of Pennsylvania to gather survey data throughout the program.
The University of Wisconsin System released the results of the “UW System Student Views on Freedom of Speech” Feb. 1, which was sent out at the end of 2022 to more than 83,000 UW System students, according to University of Wisconsin-Madison news.
Datamatch, the self-proclaimed “Bucky’s go-to” matchmaking service, returned for its fifth year on campus with new events and fun survey questions for students looking for love or friendship. The organization hosted a prom for the first time as a way to end off the week-long festivities.
Attracting the attention of hundreds of Madison residents and university students, the Hemsley Theater was packed on Friday night. After filing down the stairs to the underground hall, the audience settled into seats on each side of the astroturf stage, positioned like sports fans in bleachers, looking down at the players.
Or, as the webpage of the University of Wisconsin’s extension division explains: “The immature bugs feed face down on the stem, and as excess sap is excreted out the anus, it is mixed with a substance secreted by epidermal glands that enhances surface viscosity and stabilizes the foam to make it last longer.”
Now when patients arrive at clinics, UW Health says they’re given a card with a room number by the front desk and then guided by signs in the clinic. The front desk alerts a medical assistant that the patient has arrived. Once in the room, the visit goes on as usual.
“It’s escalating rapidly,” said Barry Burden, a political science professor at University of Wisconsin – Madison. “If $15m, $20m, $25m is spent on this race it’s more than you see in governor’s races in some states.”
“If the Supreme Court election went to a liberal candidate, it’s quite likely that the [1849 abortion ban] would get contested in the state Supreme Court,” UW-Madison professor of journalism and mass communications Mike Wagner said. “And we might then predict that that law would be overturned, kind of re-establishing abortion rights in Wisconsin.”
— Rebecca Blank dies at 67; renowned economist led the University of Wisconsin: “Blank was president-elect of Northwestern University last year when a cancer diagnosis led her to step down,” via The Associated Press.
Former UW Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank has died. Blank, who led the university for nearly a decade, died Friday. She served as the school’s chancellor from 2013 to 2022, before leaving to become president of Northwestern University.
