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While the new centers say that they are actively involved with undergraduates, directors of the older centers say that they see their roles differently.
"Servicing undergrads was never the primary goal of the centers," says Timothy J. Colton, director of the Davis Center for Russian Studies.
Part of the complicated interactions between these centers and students is due to the tension between approaching studies from a geographical perspective versus from a more traditional specific intellectual discipline, such as history or anthropology.
What characterizes both the Rockefeller Center and the Asia Center, Reifenberg says, is that they draw from all parts of the school
"In the Humanities, we see cross-cutting affiliations from ethics to cultural criticism," he says, "and in the Sciences, faculty from many departments look to the excitements of genomics, of neuroscience, or of imaging."