This story is very sketchy. Couple of Google searches do not turn up anything useful about her beyond the standard PRish articles.

https://www.google.com/search?q=chanda+zaveri+linus+pauling https://www.google.com/search?q=chanda+zaveri+uc+santa+barba...

I tried looking list of people who have received honorary doctorate degrees from Harvard but couldn't find the entire list. But it is not in the summary list they have. (All this additional info from here: http://www.chandallc.com/index.php?p=1_4_About)