Although Natalie Portman says her family was not religious, she attended a Jewish elementary school, the Solomon Schechter Day School of Glen Cove, New York. She graduated from a public high school, Syosset High School. She skipped the premiere of Star Wars: Episode I so she could study for her high school final exams. In June 2003, Natalie graduated from Harvard College with a bachelor's degree in psychology. While attending Harvard, Portman was a resident of the Lowell House, and wrote a response letter to the Harvard Crimson (the school newspaper) that was considered very well-written, in response to an anti-Israeli essay. Natalie pursued graduate studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the spring of 2004. At Harvard, Natalie was Alan Dershowitz's research assistant (he thanks her in The Case for Israel). Natalie Portman was also a research assistant in a psychology lab, and in March 2006, appeared as a guest lecturer at a Columbia University course in terrorism and counterterrorism, where she spoke about her film V for Vendetta. In addition to being bilingual in Hebrew and English, Natalie Portman has studied French, Japanese, German and Arabic.
As a student, Natalie Portman co-authored two research papers which were published in professional scientific journals. Portman's 1998 high school paper on the "Enzymatic Production of Hydrogen" was entered in the Intel Science Talent Search. In 2002, Portman contributed to a study on memory called "Frontal Lobe Activation During Object Permanence" during her psychology studies at Harvard. Due to Natalie's scientific publications, she is among a very small number of professional actors with a defined Erdős–Bacon number.
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