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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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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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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K-12 schools in Pennsylvania can sign up for free COVID-19 testing through a program the state is offering. One superintendent of a rural northern district said so far it’s working out well. -
Computer chip shortages, rising prices for some groceries, and a run on bicycles. Reports of supply chain disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic fill the news. To help make sense of what's happening and what to expect, Anne Danahy talked with Brent Moritz, an associate professor of supply chain management in Penn State's Smeal College of Business. He's also a faculty affiliate of the Laboratory for Economics, Management and Auctions, and the Center for Supply Chain Research at Penn State. And he has held positions in manufacturing operations and supply chain management, including in Mexico, England and Germany. -
Computer chip shortages, rising prices for some groceries, and a run on bicycles — reports of supply chain disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic fill the news. To try to understand what this means for central Pennsylvania, WPSU’s Anne Danahy talked with Brent Moritz, an associate professor of supply chain management in Penn State’s Smeal College of Business. -
