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- Rebecca Blank Named President of Northwestern
October 12, 2021
EVANSTON, Illinois, Oct. 12 (TNSPer) -- Northwestern University issued the following news release on Oct. 11, 2021:

Rebecca M. Blank, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin's flagship campus, has been named the next president of Northwestern University, Northwestern's Board of Trustees announced today. She will become Northwestern's 17th president, effective in the summer of 2022.

An internationally renowned economist, Blank is a wel . . .

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