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.
Contact her at adanahy@psu.edu.
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Penn State faculty voted overwhelmingly in favor of unionizing, in a closely watched decision that could have sweeping implications across the university. -
Instructure, the company whose online software was subject to a cyberattack affecting Penn State and other schools last week, said that it reached a deal with the hackers. -
Ballot counting on whether Penn State faculty will unionize and become part of the Service Employees International Union 668 is slated to begin Wednesday morning and be finished Friday. -
Penn State is one of many schools being affected by a cyberattack on web-based software widely used in higher education. The attack comes as the semester ends and faculty are trying to get their grades in before this weekend’s graduation. -
Penn State’s decision to hire McKinsey & Company to conduct a review of the university’s programs is raising questions, both about the hiring of an outside company and the choice of a consultant known for its past work for Purdue Pharma. -
The State College and Altoona areas received mixed grades for air quality in the American Lung Association's 2026 “State of the Air” report card. -
Penn State has hired the consultant McKinsey & Company as part of a sweeping review of operational and academic functions that the university says will allow it to capitalize on areas for growth and identify places for improvement. It comes as the university is already reviewing its undergraduate majors, with plans to phase some out.
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The public hearing PennDOT held Tuesday on plans for the State College Area Connector project drew a crowd of residents, many of whom said they see the need to improve road safety on the stretch of U.S. Route 322 the project targets, but who are also concerned about the impact on farmland, the environment and neighborhoods. -
The Centre County Crisis Intervention Team has launched a program to support drivers with autism during a traffic stop by police. Called the Blue Envelope Project, the goal is to help create a calm, predictable interaction between the police officer and the driver. -
A minor fish kill was reported earlier this month at Pine Creek in Centre County, and while a cause was not found, environmentalists say it’s important to investigate these events.
