Cynthia Berger / WPSU Producer

Cynthia Berger

Stories
03-05-2010

Tis the Season to Get on the Ballot

Pennsylvania holds primary elections May 18th. Who’s on the ballot? That’s being determined right now . . . and the process is more complicated than it seems.

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BookMark
03-03-2010

Still Alice by Lisa Genova

In this heartbreaking novel, a brilliant Harvard professor learns she has early-onset Alzheimer’s disease.

Vanessa McLaughlin

BookMark
02-24-2010

U is for Undertow by Sue Grafton

In the most recent book in the alphabet mystery series, Grafton sends Kinsey Millhone looking for a kidnapper.

Stories
02-22-2010

Commentary: Have a Responsible State Patty’s Day

State Patty’s Day is a holiday created by students; the main way to celebrate is by drinking. Commentator and State College police captain Dana Leonard makes the case for a responsible State Patty’s Day. Police Chief Thomas King contributed to this commentary, which also appears in the Centre Daily Times. Watch for ongoing coverage of alcohol issues in Centre County

Marjorie Maddox

BookMark
02-17-2010

Mr. Agreeable by Kirk Nesset

Mr. Agreeable is a collection of flash fiction that is both funny and unsettling.

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Stories
02-15-2010

Reach Out and Count Everyone

The 2010 census is gearing up. WPSU’s Cynthia Berger looks at local efforts to reach “hard to count” groups.

Sarah May Clarkson

BookMark
02-10-2010

The Patch Boys by Jay Parini

This coming-of-age story takes place in a Pennsylvania mining town in the 1920’s.

BookMark
02-03-2010

The Watsons go to Birmingham, 1963 by by Christopher Paul Curtis

This young adult fiction novel takes place at the height of the civil rights movement.

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BookMark
01-27-2010

Slamming Open the Door by Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno

Pennsylvania poet Kathleen Bonnano has written a shocking and moving collection of poems about the murder of her daughter.

Bio

Fans of the comedy team Duck’s Breath Mystery Theatre will understand how Cynthia Berger prepared for a career in public radio . . .  by earning a master’s degree in science! 

Before fulfilling her destiny in public radio, she taught zoology at Saint Lawrence University, ran a research lab for NASA’s “Mission to Planet Earth,” worked as a magazine editor at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, wrote four popular-science books, and produced the nationally-syndicated radio feature, The Ocean Report, hosted by Jaws author Peter Benchley.

Her initiatives since joining WPSU in 2004 include Pennsylvania Radio ExpeditionsSports That Are Not Football, BookMark, and WPSU’s own version of This I Believe.

Her radio work has been recognized with multiple PRNDI and regional Edward R. Murrow awards.