Summer Special Events
©2006 NPR, by Antony Nagelmann
UAF Summer Sessions presents
An Evening with Susan Stamberg
Tuesday, May 27, 7 p.m.
Davis Concert Hall, UAF
FREE
Nationally renowned broadcast journalist Susan Stamberg is a special correspondent for National Public Radio. Stamberg is the first woman to anchor a national nightly news program and has won every major award in broadcasting. She has been inducted into the Broadcasting Hall of Fame and the Radio Hall of Fame. Beginning in 1972, Stamberg served as co-host of NPR’s awardwinning newsmagazine All Things Considered for 14 years. She then hosted Weekend Edition Sunday, and now serves as guest host of NPR’s Morning Edition and Weekend Edition Saturday, in addition to reporting on cultural issues for all the NPR programs.
Stamberg’s recognitions include the Armstrong and duPont Awards, the Edward R. Murrow Award from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, The Ohio State University’s Golden Anniversary Director’s Award, the Distinguished Broadcaster Award from the American Women in Radio and Television.
A native of New York City, Stamberg earned a bachelor’s degree from Barnard College, and has been awarded numerous honorary degrees including a Doctor of Humane Letters from Dartmouth College. She is a Fellow of Silliman College, Yale University, and has served on the boards of the PEN/Faulkner Fiction Award Foundation and the National Arts Journalism Program based at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.
Bio: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=2101242
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