to turn its nursing science program into the Sue and Bill Gross School of Nursing. The UC Regents formally approved the establishment of the school in January 2017. In July 2020, the UC Regents approved the establishment of the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. Supplementary education programs offer accelerated or community education in the form of Summer Session and UC Irvine Extension. The academic units consist of: Claire Trevor School of the Arts School of Biological Sciences Paul Merage School of Business School of Education Henry Samueli School of Engineering School of Humanities Donald Bren School of Information & Computer Sciences Interdisciplinary Studies School of Law School of Physical Sciences School of Social Ecology School of Social Sciences School of Medicine Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences Program in Public Health Health care The School of Medicine constitute the professional schools of health science. UC Irvine Medical Center is ranked among the nation's top 50 hospitals by U.S. News & World Report for the 12th consecutive year. The School has 19 clinical and 6 basic science departments with 560 full-time and 1,300 volunteer faculty members involved in teaching, patient care and medical and basic science research. Research organizations UCI's many research organizations are either chaired by or composed of UCI faculty, frequently draw upon undergraduates and graduates for research assistance, and produce innovations, patents, and scholarly works. Some are housed in a school or department office; others are housed in their own facilities. These are a few of the research organizations at UCI: Beckman Laser Institute California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) Center for Chemistry at the Space-Time Limit (CaSTL Center) Center for Complex Biological Systems Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies Center for Cognitive Neuroscience Regional Center of Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Disease (RCE) Center for Unconventional Security Affairs Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center Institute of Transportation Studies National Fuel Cell Research Center The Fleischman Lab Reeve-Irvine Research Center Center for the Study of Democracy Center for Health Policy Research W. M. Keck Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Sue and Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics (IGB) Center for Machine Learning and Data Mining (CML) University of California Transportation Center (UCTC) Rankings Global Among universities under 50 years of age Times Higher Education ranked UCI 4th in the world and 1st