Katie Knol

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Katie Knol is WITF's summer newsroom intern for 2024. She was in the same role for summer 2023.

She graduated from Penn State University in 2024, earning bachelor's degrees in journalism and political science. She has also worked at WPSU, the News Lab at Penn State, The Daily Collegian and CommRadio.

Email: katie_knol@witf.org

Twitter: @knolkatie

Latest by Katie Knol

The Kissing Tower is shrouded in a haze at Hersheypark as smoke from Canadian wildfires filtered into Pennsylvania on June 8, 2023. The smoke degraded air quality across Pennsylvania and other states in the northeast. Jeremy Long - WITF News

May 29, 2024 | 2:16 PM

Penn State study offers more accurate smoke pollution estimates

The Penn State team instead put together a measurement system including the more-broad smoke forecasts from NOAA and hourly data from on-the-ground sensors.

By Katie Knol