International Affairs

It's not the Central Intelligence Agency's list of foreign espionage agents; but here at Harvard, it's the next best thing.

Cheryl Hollman Keen, joint coordinator of the Committee on International Studies and a student at the Graduate School of Education, has helped to establish a computerized information bank of members of the Harvard community interested in international affairs.

Coping With Soc Sci 174

Students have used the service to locate sources for research papers, especially in Social Sciences 174, "Coping with International Conflict," a course taught by Roger Fisher, Williston Professor of Law, Keen said.

Faculty members applying for grants have used it to find others in their fields of interest.

Campus organizations and professors have employed the system to compile mailing lists of students interested in a certain topic.

The computerized list, which has been available since February, allows anyone to locate Harvard affiliates knowledgeable in a particular language or region of the world, Keen said yesterday. Keen said she and Michael Feloney '77 started it because she was tired of "exhausting (her) personal potential continually having to direct people where to look for such information."

Keen said their proposal of the project attracted a two-year, $10,000 grant from the University to fund the Committee on International Studies' activities.

However, work-study students perform the actual terminal work in the Science Center computer room because the committee does not have enough funds to install a terminal in its office.

Anyone interested in finding people with specific international knowledge or background can complete a questionnaire at the office of the Committee on International Studies in Room 506 at Coolidge Hall.