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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Tuition bills for Pennsylvanians who go to Penn State or one of the other state-related universities will come with a new detail this coming year: the students are getting a discount — thanks to the General Assembly.
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Penn State is planning to increase employees' salaries 2.5% percent, under a plan the board of trustees will vote on Friday.
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Penn State set to increase tuition for most students, with a freeze for families who make under $75KPenn State undergraduates whose families make $75,000 a year or less are slated to see their tuition stay the same in the upcoming year, while others will see their tuition increase 2% to 6%, under a plan the board of trustee’s finance committee approved Thursday morning.
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Pennsylvania's wild turkey population has been going down, after peaking in 2001, so to help find out why, the state Game Commission has outfitted about 100 hens with GPS transmitters as part of its largest turkey research project.
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A natural gas company in Clearfield County that had been "mining" for Bitcoin has stopped doing so for now, but operations at a site had already led to an information request from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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Penn State Pres. Bendapudi is at center of a whistleblower lawsuit filed against Univ. of LouisvilleA whistleblower lawsuit filed by a former attorney at the University of Louisville alleges she was demoted and punished for reporting attempted extortion by an assistant basketball coach, and that she experienced pushback from then-President Neeli Bendapudi for doing so.
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If a teacher is sick or needs time off, the school just hires a substitute, right? But what do administrators do when there are almost no substitutes to call? WPSU reports on how one school district in northcentral Pennsylvania is keeping kids in class during the COVID pandemic.
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Criticizing the Penn State administration’s COVID-19 plans for the fall, the university Faculty Senate voted Friday to approve a motion of no confidence in those plans and to call on the university to require vaccinations for students, faculty and staff.
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Penn State Plans To Bring Staff, Faculty Back To Offices By Fall, As COVID Vaccine Rollout ContinuesAfter a year of largely remote classes and jobs, Penn State plans to move faculty and staff back to in-person work this fall as COVID-19 vaccines become widely available.
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Starting Saturday, callers in Pennsylvania’s 814-area code need to dial 10 digits, not just seven, as the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission gets...