Anne Danahy
ReporterAnne Danahy is a reporter at WPSU. She was a reporter for nearly 12 years at the Centre Daily Times in State College, Pennsylvania, where she earned a number of awards for her coverage of issues including 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 Strategic Communications at Penn State and with the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute before that.
She hosts a Q&A program for Centre County's government and education access station and teaches a news writing and reporting class at Penn State.
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In the children’s book “The Extraordinary Pause,” life during the COVID-19 pandemic comes to a standstill. -
As Pennsylvania continues to see record-setting numbers of new COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations, schools in central Pennsylvania are seeing rising numbers of cases and Penn State is reporting an increased positivity rate too. The Pennsylvania Department of Health is reporting a record high of more than 7,000 hospitalizations statewide Tuesday.
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Katriona Shea, a professor in the biological sciences at Penn State, is co-leader of the COVID-19 Scenario Modeling Hub Coordination Team. It brings together researchers from institutions across the United States to offer projections on the pandemic and advise the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. WPSU spoke with Shea about what we might expect from Omicron and the pandemic.
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Tom Charles, executive vice president of Mount Nittany Health, spoke to the Centre County Board of Commissioners Tuesday, describing the "incredibly difficulty circumstances" the hospital and its staff are working under as COVID-19 hospitalizations continue.
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Three Pennsylvania congressmen are calling on the Maryland Air National Guard to hold in-person, public meetings to hear residents’ concerns before moving forward with a proposal to fly planes lower during training it does in northcentral Pennsylvania.
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The number of COVID-19 cases reported in Pennsylvania increased by more than 10,000 Friday, according to the state Department of Health, the biggest one-day increase in coronavirus cases Pennsylvania has seen since Jan. 8. The number of inpatients at Mount Nittany Health reached 59 on Friday.
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Katriona Shea, an Alumni Professor in the biological sciences at Penn State, is co-leader of a national team that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Known as the COVID-19 Scenario Modeling Hub Coordination Team, it brings together researchers from institutions across the United States to offer projections on the pandemic. Shea spoke with WPSU about how scientific modeling works, how it can be used when dealing with pandemics and the Omicron variant.
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Suresh Kuchipudi, a professor of virology at Penn State, is one of the lead researchers of a study of SARS-CoV-2 in white-tailed deer in Iowa in 2020-21. They found that the number of deer samples that tested positive increased over time, reaching 80% by the end of the year.
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