"Servicing undergrads was never the primary goal of the centers," says Timothy J. Colton, director of the Davis Center for Russian Studies.
The Davis Center, like many others, offers grants and travel assistance to students with research projects abroad, but rarely recruits undergraduates through other means.
There does not seem to be a
huge need for more than that," Colton says. "If things need to change they will, but the initiative will come from the College.
Give and Take
Knowles also points out that other disciplines pool their knowledge to study specific topics in-depth as well. In the social sciences, he says, such an interdisciplinary approach may translate into a geographical breakdown.
"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."
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