Penn’s Annenberg Public Policy Center finds in a new health survey that nearly half (48%) of U.S. adults incorrectly think that for most adults, the benefits of taking a low-dose aspirin every day to reduce the chance of heart attack or stroke outweigh the risks. The past rationale for routine low-dose aspirin use was that aspirin acts as a blood thinner and reduces the clotting that can clog arteries and lead to heart attack or stroke.

Domchek is the Basser Professor in Oncology in the Perelman School of Medicine and executive director of the Basser Center for BRCA at Penn Medicine’s Abramson Cancer Center, where she also serves as director of the Mariann and Robert MacDonald Cancer Risk Evaluation Program; the ASCO-American Cancer Society Cancer Prevention Award is bestowed upon a distinguished expert who has made significant contributions to cancer prevention and control research or practice.

The scholarship is designated for a student within Penn Dental Medicine’s Master of Science in Oral and Population Health program, and awards $45,000 annually for two years.

The Professor Emeritus in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, has been awarded the 2025 Society of Engineering Science William Prager Medal for outstanding research contributions in theoretical solid mechanics.

de Silva de Alwis will advise on advancing his priorities on gender equality and women’s empowerment. She has also been appointed Vice Chair of the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute.

The new film festival, “Global Lens: Visions of Resilience,” will focus on short documentaries featuring stories of resilience.

The Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures has been appointed director for MEC, which offers a major and minor in Modern Middle Eastern Studies, teacher training workshops and programing with community colleges and minority-serving institutions.

Ari Goldstein and Douglas Snyder are the winners of the 2025 Keedy Cup competition, with their arguments for the respondents in the competition’s case, NVIDIA Corporation v. E. Ohman J:or Fonder AB. The Keedy Cup is the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School’s intramural moot court competition.