On March 20, 2012, USC celebrated the Harman Family Foundation’s gift of $10 million to fulfill the extraordinary vision of Sidney Harman, founder of the university’s Academy for Polymathic Study and the first Judge Widney Professor of Business. The gift endows the center that now bears his name, the USC Sidney Harman Academy for Polymathic Study. Sponsoring programs that encourage critical and integrative thinking, the study of history’s great polymaths, and intellectual investigation that crosses the boundaries of traditional academic specialties, the Harman Academy is the only center of its kind in the world.