Anne Danahy
Anne Danahy is a reporter at WPSU. She was a reporter for nearly 12 years at the Centre Daily Times in State College, Pennsylvania, where she earned a number of awards for her coverage of issues including 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 Strategic Communications at Penn State and with the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute before that.
She hosts a Q&A program for Centre County's government and education access station and teaches a news writing and reporting class at Penn State.
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At least 14 international students at Penn State have recently had their visas revoked, in what appears to be part of a broader shift in enforcement under President Donald Trump. -
Nearly 2,000 top scientists, engineers and medical researchers, including almost 10 from Penn State, signed a letter saying the Trump administration is waging a "wholesale assault" on science. -
Several trustees called for more time to consider renaming options and for recognition of former football coach Joe Paterno. -
Vaccine refrigeration — which can be expensive and logistically challenging, but still needed — could become unnecessary, thanks to research from a Penn State team. -
A federal judge has temporarily stopped a new Trump administration policy to put a cap on indirect overhead costs that come with research, a policy that if enacted would have impacted faculty at institutions including Penn State. -
The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections is recommending closing the State Correctional Institution at Rockview in Centre County and Quehanna Boot Camp in Clearfield County, and moving impacted employees to other state prisons, following a review of the department's facilities. -
Some Head Start preschools in Pennsylvania and across the country are finding themselves in financial limbo — still unable to access their federal funding in a delay that providers say could put child care at risk. -
Penn State leaders don't rule out the possibility of campus closures when asked about it during a Faculty Senate meeting Tuesday.
