She is the first woman to serve as solicitor general of the United States and earlier, as head of Harvard Law School.

VOA: special.2010.05.15

The novel re-visits the character of Robert Langdon, the Harvard University professor from Brown's first two books.

VOA: special.2009.10.09

Ned Sahin, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard and the University of California, San Diego,School of Medicine was the first author of the paper outlining the work, which was published in the journal Science.

VOA: standard.2010.01.15