ANN ARBOR—Rebecca M. Blank, now serving on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, was named dean of the University of Michigan’s School of Public Policy.

Her appointment, effective Aug. 1, was approved by the U-M Regents at their Feb. 18 meeting. She also will serve as professor of public policy and of economics and the Henry Carter Adams Collegiate Professor of Public Policy.

Blank, on leave from Northwestern University to serve on the President’s Council, specializes in labor economics and income distribution. She has been a member of the Economics Department at Northwestern since 1989, where she also holds a research position in the Institute for Policy Research.

Blank holds a B.S. degree in economics from the University of Minnesota and a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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