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's fiscal year started July 1, and the university plans to notify employees about pay raises in the next few weeks, according to a spokesman. -
Penn State plans to buy the former fraternity house where hazing led to the death of Timothy Piazza in 2017, after reaching a $7.3 million agreement with the property owner. -
Cleanup work at the Jackson Ceramix Superfund site, in Falls Creek, Pennsylvania, is underway, with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency overseeing a multistep process to address contamination at the former dish ware factory site. -
Roaring Spring Paper Products in Blair County has seen an upswing in demand for its Blue Books, paper booklets used for taking tests. One possible reason? Outsmarting A.I. -
The Trump administration is holding up nearly $7 billion in federal education funding that states were slated to get Tuesday, including more than $230 million to Pennsylvania. -
Opponents to the Republican budget bill rallied outside U.S. Rep. Glenn “GT” Thompson’s Bellefonte office Wednesday afternoon, waving signs and getting drivers to honk their horns in support of their message: That cuts to social programs in the Trump budget bill would be harmful. -
Penn State’s Faculty Senate endorsed a position paper Tuesday to support non-tenure line faculty, saying some have been treated as "expendable resources" recently even though they've shown commitment to the university. -
Penn State’s board of trustees voted Monday to remove Barry Fenchak, one of its most outspoken members, from the board for telling an off-color joke trustees said was inconsistent with their bylaws. -
In the face of budget cuts from Penn State that take effect with the new fiscal year starting July 1, WPSU is laying off several staff members. -
You may have heard them in parts of Pennsylvania or seen them buzzing around — periodical cicadas have emerged and in some places, including Bald Eagle State Park in Centre County, they're out in force. And they’re loud.
