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Air travel quandary: Gad Allon and Megan Ryerson on challenges and solutions
Travelers in a busy security checkpoint at an airport.

Travelers at a security checkpoint at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago during the government shutdown in November.

(Image: Nam Y. Huh via Getty Images)

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    • Air travel quandary: Gad Allon and Megan Ryerson on challenges and solutions

    The recent government shutdown exposed long-standing issues facing commercial air travel. Leading into Thanksgiving holiday travel, Gad Allon of the Wharton School and Megan Ryerson of the Weitzman School of Design discuss the system’s infrastructure challenges and the need for workforce development.

    4 min. read

    Why are credit card rates so high?

    Why are credit card rates so high?

    Credit card lending delivers a much higher return on assets than the banking sector, according to new research co-authored by Wharton finance professor Itamar Drechsler.

    From Knowledge at Wharton

    Fostering cats and dogs in Philadelphia
    Candace Adams holds cat.

    Candace Adams with Black Pearl, one of her foster cats.

    (Image: Courtesy of Candace Adams)

    Fostering cats and dogs in Philadelphia

    Outside of her day job at Penn’s Institutional Review Board, Candace Adams works with different organizations in Philadelphia to give temporary shelter and care to cats and dogs.
    Letting the sunshine in and monitoring stormwater runoff
    Tree saplings next to the solar panels.

    Trees planted next to the solar panels are enhancing stormwater runoff infiltration.

    (Image: The Water Center at Penn)

    Letting the sunshine in and monitoring stormwater runoff

    As the buzz around renewable energy grows louder, a research endeavor led by the Water Center at Penn exemplifies of how addressing energy demands goes hand-in-hand with tackling water challenges.

    From the Environmental Innovations Initiative

    Michael Zanoni named Big 5 Player of the Week

    Michael Zanoni named Big 5 Player of the Week

    Penn guard guard Michael Zanoni has been named the city series Player of the Week, his first Big 5 weekly honor as a member of the Quakers.

    Penn fourth-year Florence Onyiuke named a 2026 Rhodes Scholar
    Florence Onyiuke.

    Fourth-year Florence Onyiuke is a 2026 Rhodes Scholar.

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    Penn fourth-year Florence Onyiuke named a 2026 Rhodes Scholar

    Onyiuke has been awarded a 2026 Rhodes Scholarship, which funds tuition and a living stipend for graduate study at the University of Oxford in England. She is among 32 American Rhodes Scholars and an expected 100 worldwide.

    2 min. read

    Four from Penn receive Kaufman Foundation grants

    Four from Penn receive Kaufman Foundation grants

    Penn researchers will receive two of four grants awarded this year by the Charles E. Kaufman Foundation in support of interdisciplinary collaboration aimed at developing novel approaches to fundamental scientific questions.

    2 min. read