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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The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board has granted approval for Saratoga Casino Holdings LLC to operate the casino being built in the Nittany Mall in College Township, Centre County. -
After another man died while in ICE custody at the Moshannon Valley Processing Center in Clearfield County, immigrant advocates held a press conference Monday, renewing their calls for the facility to be shut down. -
Aerial photographs, weather observations and even food delivery are a few of the uses for drones, but a public-private partnership in southcentral Pennsylvania is working on using them get emergency medical equipment to rural areas when it’s needed, quickly. -
Penn State faculty hoping to unionize across the university said Tuesday they filed the paperwork and signatures needed for a vote, announcing the move at an event in the state Capitol. Organizers say the union would represent about 6,000 faculty members and related employees. -
Older adults who live in southcentral Pennsylvania have higher rates of melanoma skin cancer, according to a study by Penn State researchers that found that counties with more farmland and herbicide use also have more melanoma, and not just among farmers. -
Penn State, Pitt and Temple are slated to get performance-based funding under legislation the Pennsylvania General Assembly passed in November, and while leaders praised the model, the funding for it still has to be worked out. -
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.
