The School of Biological Sciences (formerly the Francisco J. Ayala School of Biological Sciences) is one of the academic units of the University of California, Irvine (UCI).
[1] It is consistently ranked in the top one hundred in U.S. News & World Report’s yearly list of best graduate schools.
[4] On March 12, 2014, the School was officially renamed after UCI professor and donor Francisco J. Ayala by then-Chancellor Michael V.
[5] Ayala had previously pledged to donate $10 million to the School of Biological Sciences in 2011.
[6] The school reverted to its previous name in June 2018, after a university investigation confirmed that Ayala had sexually harassed at least four women colleagues and graduate students.