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 U.S. Farm Bill, which includes everything from crop insurance to nutrition assistance programs, has expired, but Congress has not been able to agree on a new five-year Farm Bill, raising concerns about what that could mean for its programs. -
Under new state and federal orders, cow milk in Pennsylvania is getting tested for bird flu at Penn State, with a goal of quickly finding and containing the virus if it does show up in dairy cows in Pennsylvania. -
If you go to the Alternative Christmas Fair in State College on Sunday, you won’t be browsing for things to buy, but for ways to give back. The fair features 31 nonprofit organizations, which shoppers can learn more about and contribute to. -
As cases of “walking pneumonia” have gone up in the United States this year, especially among children, doctors in central Pennsylvania are seeing rising numbers too. -
When Hurricane Helene hit North Carolina in late September, the factory where more than half of the IV fluids in the U.S. are made was shut down. Now, hospitals, including those in central Pennsylvania, continue to face a shortage of IV fluids. -
Under an agreement with the state Department of Environmental Protection over the presence of PFAS around the State College Regional Airport, Penn State has agreed to investigate and remediate the PFAS and pay part of DEP’s costs. -
The effort to build a loop of sustainable trails in Rothrock State Forest in Centre and Huntingdon counties just got a boost from the state, with a $500,000 grant from the state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources that will go toward the second phase of the project. -
Some Penn State faculty are continuing to sound alarms about the impacts they say the university’s voluntary buyouts, budget cuts and restructuring are having on some campuses. -
ClearWater Conservancy recently received two grants to help pay for its new conservation center, which will serve land conservation and watershed protection initiatives in central Pennsylvania. -
Penn State graduate students looking to unionize rallied on the steps of Old Main Thursday, with organizers saying they have the signatures needed to move to the next step in the unionization process.
