Mel DeYoung has hosted WPSU’s Morning Edition for the last 13 years. Before that, he spent a couple of decades as a host and the coordinator of WPSU’s Folk Show. Mel has decided he wants more time for travel, home projects, and sleep. July 10 was his last day as WPSU’s regular Morning Edition host. Some of his WPSU coworkers shared their thoughts about Mel. Continue »
Sarah Lower, an assistant professor of biology at Bucknell University, and student Susan Deering were catching fireflies on a recent afternoon at a farm in Kellettville, Pennsylvania, in Forest County. But it wasn't just for fun. They're studying the insects, particularly the ones that don't light up as adults. Instead researchers believe they emit pheromones and use smell to communicate. Continue »
The Navigating Inflation series is a collaboration between the News Lab at Penn State and WPSU. Between October 2022 and March 2023, a team of journalists from the News Lab visited Tyrone in Blair County several times with the aim of listening to residents and workers talk about the impact of inflation on their businesses, households, and day-to-day lives. Continue »
WPSU is providing a new way for community members to share their perspectives, feedback and questions with Talk to WPSU, a one-button web tool that can record high-quality audio through the WPSU website. The recordings will be used as part of stories featured on television and radio programs and across the WPSU platform. Continue »
WPSU is doing stories on how inflation is affecting Pennsylvanians, and we want to hear your story. The cost of everything has gone up, from the price of groceries to gasoline to heat for your house. How is that affecting you? Are you cutting back? Searching for deals? Saving less? Continue »
The historic Inn on Penn State’s University Park campus is slated for a change in ownership, and to get ready for that, the university’s Lion Surplus opened the Inn for a sale this week, offering the public a chance to buy a piece of history — or at least a piece of furniture. Continue »
Katie Kostohryz, an associate teaching professor in counselor education and rehabilitation at Penn State, talked with WPSU’s Lindsey Whissel Fenton about what PGD is, about the pros and cons of this diagnosis, and about what this all means for grieving people. Continue »
The Wall Street Journal reporter and author Josh Mitchell talks about the history of student loans and the student debt crisis. Continue »
Brad Groznik talks about the Rediscover State College marketing campaign. They talked with Penn State alums, State High graduates and others who’ve left State College about whether they might move back and about their perceptions of the State College area, good and bad. Continue »
Susan Strauss, who lives in College Township, and Andrew Shaffer, who lives in State College, have been leading opposition efforts to a mini-casino a developer wants to build in the Nittany Mall in College Township, Centre County. Continue »
Penn State’s new president Neeli Bendapudi talks with WPSU’s Min Xian about the changing landscape of higher education and how that affects student success at Penn State. Continue »
WPSU talks with Chris Fowler about how political boundary lines affect fairness, gerrymandering, and election results. Continue »
WPSU’s Anne Danahy spoke with Katriona Shea, an Alumni Professor in the biological sciences at Penn State, about how scientific modeling works, how it can be used when dealing with pandemics and the Omicron variant. Continue »
Dr. Jill Harrington is the creator and lead editor of the textbook, “Superhero Grief: The Transformative Power of Loss,” which uses modern superhero narratives as fictional case studies to teach grief theory promote healing. Continue »
On Take Note, Sonia Manzano, most well known for her role as Maria on Sesame Street, explores her childhood in the Bronx and connections to her new PBS KIDS show Alma's Way. Continue »
WPSU’s Cheraine Stanford talks with Shara McCallum. McCallum is an author, public speaker, and Penn State professor whose poems and essays have been published in journals, anthologies, and textbooks nationally and internationally. Continue »
Scott Weidensaul is a naturalist and writer, the author of about 30 books, including one out in March of this year, “A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds.” In the book, Weidensaul takes readers across the word to see the incredible feats of migrating birds. Continue »
Lydia and Gary Abdullah are longtime State College residents who met at Penn State in the early 1970s. They talked with WPSU’s Cheraine Stanford about the evolution of their relationship and what’s made their marriage work for more than four decades. Continue »
On this episode of Take Note, we talk with Ben Locke, the director of Penn State’s Counseling and Psycological Services and the director of the Center for Collegiate Mental Health at Penn State. Continue »
Two Democrats — and no Republicans — are on the ballot in this year’s primary race for State College mayor. WPSU’s Anne Danahy spoke with the candidates – Ezra Nanes and Jim Leous – about why they’re running and what their priorities would be. Continue »
Oceana Sawyer talked with WPSU about what it means to be an End-of-Life doula, her own experiences with death and grief that led her to this vocation, and how we can learn to die as consciously as we live. Continue »
WPSU's Emily Reddy spoke with Deirdre Mask, the author of "The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth and Power." "The Address Book" is the Centre County Reads book for 2021. The book takes readers around the world -- to India, London, Philadelphia, South Africa, New York City and more -- to look at the importance of addresses. Continue »
Lennon Flowers is passionate about creating spaces where “humans can be human.” In service to that goal, she co-founded The Dinner Party—a platform that connects grieving 20- and 30-somethings. Lennon talked with WPSU about with her about her own experience with grief, the unique challenges of experiencing loss in early adulthood, and how The Dinner Party Works. Continue »
A task force spent a year looking at mental health crisis services in State College and Centre County. Members of the task force Patricia Best and Leslie Laing talked with WPSU about the current state of those services, the challenges service providers face and the recommended changes for reform. Continue »
Fred Guttenberg’s 14-year-old daughter, Jaime, was killed on Valentine’s Day in 2008 during a mass shooting at her high school in Parkland, Florida. He talks with WPSU about his daughter, his mission, his new book, and some of the many people who have helped him cope. Continue »
Stay-at-home mom, filmmaker, and blogger Erin Bagwell talks with WPSU about her latest film, about how becoming a mom challenged her identity, and about her experience with postpartum depression. Continue »
The COVID-19 vaccine is slowly rolling out across the country. Some people still have concerns about these new vaccines and their safety. We had epidemiologist Nita Bharti answer some of those questions. Continue »
WPSU’s Kristine Allen talked with Michael Mann about tactics used by climate change deniers, what needs to be done about the climate crisis, and why he’s optimistic about tackling climate change. Continue »
Kelly Holder, Director of the Office of Professional Mental Health at the Penn State College of Medicine and Hershey Medical Center, talks with WOSU about mental health challenges and what people can do to to keep their minds active and positive during the COVID-19 pandemic. Continue »
WPSU’s Emily Reddy talked with Kevin Kinser, a Penn State professor and head of the Department of Education Policy Studies, about why he thinks students should be staying home, and why schools that have brought students back need transparent plans for when COVID-19 cases start piling up. Continue »
Divine Lipscomb, a formerly incarcerated student studying rehabilitation and human services at Penn State, talked with WPSU about how his own experience turned him into an advocate for better supporting those reentering society. Continue »
Mack Brady was two weeks shy of his ninth birthday when he died unexpectedly from a blood infection on New Year’s Eve in 2012. In the time since, his parents, Elizabeth and Christian Brady, have both used writing as an outlet for their own grief and as a way to help others who are grieving. Continue »
WPSU’s Anne Danahy spoke with Terry Engelder, professor emeritus of geosciences at Penn State, about his work, fracking, and the natural gas industry. Continue »
WPSU’s Cheraine Stanford talks with Sandra Charles, Chief Medical Officer and Chief of Health Services for the Library of Congress, about her life and why she thinks we need to talk about mental health as openly as we do about cancer or diabetes. Continue »
WPSU’s Emily Reddy talks about the effects of the shutdown on students with Ed Fuller, an associate professor in the College of Education at Penn State. Continue »
Brandon Ogbunu, Assistant Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Brown University, talked with WPSU’s Cheraine Stanford about his latest novel coronavirus research and the interactions between race, social justice, and COVID-19. Continue »
Increasingly, our daily lives are online, especially during the coronavirus shutdown. But access to the internet is not always equal, which was exacerbated by the shutdown. And the privacy implications of our online lives are sometimes an afterthought. Continue »
“Big Summer” is the big summer novel you’ve been waiting for. Okay, I get it, you’re not on the beach, you’re still working from home, but if you want a great novel to sink into—a novel with a central mystery and a relatable protagonist, this one is for you. Continue »
Megan Devine is a psychotherapist, grief advocate and author of It's OK That You're Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn't Understand. She's the founder of Refuge in Grief, an online community that helps people understand grief and navigate loss. Continue »
WPSU’s Andy Grant talks with Erika Saunders, the chair of psychiatry and behavioral health at the Penn State College of Medicine and Penn State Health, about what effects longterm shelter orders and social distancing might have on our mental health. Continue »
WPSU’s Anne Danahy spoke with Bernice Hausman, author and chair of the Department of Humanities in Penn State’s College of Medicine about what we can learn from past vaccine controversies about the COVID-19 epidemic. Continue »
WPSU’s Cheraine Stanford talks with Matthew Ferrari, an epidemiologist and associate professor of biology at Penn State, about the new coronavirus, what we know, what we don’t and what it means for our community and our country. Continue »
WPSU’s Emily Reddy talked with the Peabody Award-winning director about “Cooked,” which had its TV premiere on Independent Lens on PBS earlier this month, and about her past documentaries, which include “Blue Vinyl” and “A Healthy Baby Girl.” Continue »
WPSU’s Anne Danahy spoke with Greg Grove, editor of Pennsylvania Birds, and Doug Wentzel, president of the State College Bird Club, about bird watching and industry trends. Continue »
WPSU’s Anne Danahy spoke with underground cartoonist R. Crumb and Penn State Professor Jerry Zolten about their love of old blues music and records. Continue »
WPSU’S Min Xian talked with Domitrz about consent, intimacy and respect in relationships and in the workplace. Domitrz believes respect is a kind of skill and takes practice. Continue »
After working at Penn State for 36 years and then retiring as undersecretary for science at the Smithsonian Institution, Eva Pell is writing children’s books. Continue »
I believe in party dresses. My mother and I both use clothes to make a statement. Continue »
As part of the WPSU project “Overcoming an Epidemic: Opioids in Pennsylvania,” WPSU’s Anne Danahy spoke with six inmates at Rockview state prison in Centre County. The inmates are participants in the state Department of Corrections Certified Peer Specialist program or CPS, which trains them to provide peer support to other inmates. Continue »
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