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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Penn State is behind its peers when it comes to commercializing its research, according to a report to the university's trustees, but it's making a push to change that and help more faculty move their research to market. -
Saying it has the least impact on agricultural lands, displaces the fewest homes and avoids the headwaters of Spring Creek, PennDOT is recommending the Central alternative for the U.S. Route 322 State College Area Connector Project. -
The federal government has canceled close to 40 Penn State research grants so far, as part of a broader sweep to slash science research funding, and Penn State’s head of research told the Faculty Senate Tuesday that that number of terminated grants could continue to grow. -
The Trump administration is expected to ask Congress in the upcoming week to eliminate almost all federal funding to public media, including WPSU, which gets about 20% of its funding through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. -
After more than a week of using metal detectors in its high school buildings prompted by the threat of an attack, the State College Area School District is buying three more detectors, but it currently does not plan to install them permanently. -
Penn State is delaying the announcement of which campuses it’s going to close by several weeks, pushing the date to mid-May. -
At least 14 international students at Penn State have recently had their visas revoked, in what appears to be part of a broader shift in enforcement under President Donald Trump. -
The State College Area School District is using metal detectors Monday at its high school buildings, following the arrest of a 20-year-old man who was allegedly planning an attack on the school for later in April.
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PennDOT will present its preferred option for the U.S. Route 322 State College Area Connector project at a meeting scheduled for 4-8 p.m. on May 8 at the Wyndham Garden State College, 310 Elks Club Rd, Boalsburg. -
A group of educators, health care workers and supporters delivered a petition to U.S. Rep. Glenn “GT” Thompson’s Bellefonte office Tuesday, calling on him to come out against cuts in federal funding for research, health care and education.
