Talk:List of research centers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst

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concerns with this list

The title of this list seems fundamentally flawed in that it is not a list of Research Labs, rather a list of Research Centers. There isn't a single specific lab listed here, which is probably a good thing (as I said on the talk page for UMass). It's also missing a number of the better known Research Centers, and contains many seemingly non-notable ones. There's also no apparent order, ranking, or classification employed in this list. I have similar concerns about List of University of Massachusetts Amherst notable faculty, which seems to be a completely arbitrary list of faculty members with no individual notability asserted for each. (+)H₃N-Protein\Chemist-CO₂(-) 17:52, 8 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Also, ECE seems drastically over-representned on this list relative to other departments!(+)H₃N-Protein\Chemist-CO₂(-) 18:27, 8 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

(Reply on discussion page). --Simtropolitan (talk) 19:16, 3 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]