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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Skywatchers in Pennsylvania got to see the northern lights Sunday night. WPSU talked with Bill Bristow, a Penn State professor of atmospheric science, about the science behind the light show, and a Penn State meteorology student who saw the display. -
An appearance at Penn State’s University Park campus by the right-wing entertainer Alex Stein planned for this month has been canceled, after running into logistical hurdles. Organizers said they'll be back in the fall. -
A gas and oil company mining for cryptocurrency in Elk County, Pennsylvania, was found to be in violation of regulations when it installed equipment before getting approval from the state Department of Environmental Protection. The company says it is following the rules. -
The Penn State Faculty Senate approved on Tuesday a change in its class attendance policy that says, in most cases, instructors should switch from in-person to remote classes on November election days to make in-person voting easier for students. -
Students were evacuated from the Bellefonte Area High School and other schools across the state Wednesday morning, after police received threatening phone calls, which police are saying are not credible. -
The American marten — a small, mink-like creature once common in Pennsylvania’s forests — is no longer found in the state, thanks to overhunting and deforestation more than a century ago. But, the state Game Commission is holding open houses as it considers bringing back the member of the mustelid family. -
Herm Suplizio, the city manager and former mayor of DuBois, has been arrested on charges of theft and fraud, accused of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from public accounts, according to the Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General. -
As the number of violent incidents in Pennsylvania prisons increased in 2022, compared with the year before, the corrections officers’ union hopes to work with Governor Josh Shapiro’s administration to help make prisons safer. -
The State College Area School District's acting superintendent, Curtis Johnson, will take the job permanently, after the board voted Monday night to appoint Johnson to the position. -
As Penn State deals with what it's calling a structural deficit and cutting funding to some of its departments, layoffs will be part of the picture in at least one college.
