Daria Semegen, a professor from the Department of Music, has won the 2009 Susan B. Anthony Lifetime Achievement Award from the Anthony Center for Women’s Leadership in Rochester, New York, site of the Susan B. Anthony House National Historic Landmark.
The award was presented at the annual Susan B. Anthony Legacy Dinner at the University of Rochester, where the speakers included the university’s president, vice president, and noted historian Allida Black, Project Director and Editor of The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers at George Washington University.
Previous recipients of this award include internationally recognized figures in arts, sciences, and medicine. Semegen is the first composer to receive this award.
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