Anne Danahy
ReporterAnne Danahy has been a reporter at WPSU since fall 2017. Before crossing over to radio, she was a reporter for more than 11 years at the Centre Daily Times in State College, Pennsylvania, where she covered everything from school board races to the impact of natural gas development on communities.
She earned a bachelor's degree in communications from Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, and a master's degree in media studies from Penn State.
Before joining WPSU, she worked as a writer and editor at Penn State's Office of Strategic Communications and, before that, at the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences.
She also hosts a Q&A program for C-NET, Centre County's government and education access station. She is married with cats.
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When a building on Penn State’s University Park campus had a structural issue that forced an evacuation Wednesday afternoon, nearby geoscientists may have captured the moment — on their seismometer. -
The brother of the man who died while in ICE custody at a facility in Clearfield County Aug. 5 has filed a lawsuit against the federal government, in an effort to get more information about his brother’s death. -
The Ferguson Township Planning Commission voted Monday to recommend approval of a Wawa gas station on North Atherton Street, with the stipulation that the developer discuss concerns residents raised with the township staff before the project goes to the board of supervisors for a vote. -
Penn State’s board of trustees voted Friday to tighten the guidelines for its members’ interactions with the media. -
Penn State wants to be a leader in the field of artificial intelligence, and the university’s provost laid out a vision for how that will happen during a board of trustees committee meeting Thursday. -
The number of international students studying at American colleges and universities like Penn State is on a downturn. That comes as the Trump administration has issued travel bans and restrictions on certain countries and made getting a student visa more difficult for some. -
Penn State’s head of research outlined what he called worst-case and best-case scenarios during a town hall Monday, as the university prepares for the possibility of large-scale cuts in federal research funding and changes to visa regulations for international students and employees proposed by the Trump administration. -
Penn State President Neeli Bendapudi said Thursday the university will not endorse the “compact” President Trump has asked universities to sign. -
As WHYY moves forward with acquiring WPSU, the CEO of the Philadelphia-based public media station outlined those plans, including having it operate as a stand-alone entity, dialing up fundraising and having WPSU keep its name. -
PennDOT has submitted a permit application to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as part of the process for the Route 322 State College Area Connector project, which could affect creeks and wetlands.
