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Santa Cruz Pickwick Club presents: Christie Mysteries
Village murders! Occult conspiracies! A modern mystery tinged with the uncanny! Join the Pickwick Club as we explore Dickens and Christie across four landmark detective novels.
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Exhibition—The Audacity to Create, works by BIPOC UC Santa Cruz alumni
Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery Baskin Service Road, Santa Cruz, CAThe Audacity to Create is an alumni exhibition showcasing the work of UC Santa Cruz Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) alumni Alejandra Chavez, Jorge Gomez-Gonzalez , Katie Dorame, […]
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Santa Cruz Pickwick Club presents: Christie Mysteries
Village murders! Occult conspiracies! A modern mystery tinged with the uncanny! Join the Pickwick Club as we explore Dickens and Christie across four landmark detective novels.
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Survivor Circle: Body Mapping
Hahn Student Services 104 400 Hahn Road, Santa Cruz, United StatesSurvivor Circles offer a free, in person drop-in space led by CARE Advocates to connect and share the glimmers & struggles of healing from harmful sexual experiences. Led by CARE […]
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2026 Graduate & Professional School Fair
Stevenson Event Center Stevenson Service Road, Santa Cruz, CAYou’re invited to join us, open to all majors!
Undergraduate and graduate students and recent alumni interested in pursuing continuing education opportunities are invited to attend. Get the chance to meet admission representatives seeking to share insight into their respective graduate and professional school programs and discuss ways in which to stand out in the application process.
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BME 280B Seminar: Dr. Mark Chaisson – “Multiscale analysis of variation in repetitive DNA across human genomes”
Physical Sciences Building Physical Sciences Building, Santa Cruz, CAWelcome to the 5th week of our BME 280B seminar series, a weekly seminar covering topics of current research in computational biology and bioinformatics. Open to all, food is provided. […]
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Staff Advisory Board’s Fall Forum with Chancellor Larive
ZoomThe Staff Advisory Board enthusiastically invites you to attend their Fall Forum with Chancellor Larive on Thursday, October 29, 2026 from noon to 1pm. The purpose of the SAB-supported forums […]
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Carlos Motta: When Time Stands Still
Featured Visualizing AbolitionInstitute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz, United StatesCarlos Motta’s When Time Stands Still, the artist’s second solo show with the IAS, features new and recent installations, videos, and sculptures highlighting the artist’s preoccupation with the historical and aesthetic productions of […]
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Victor ‘Marka27’ Quiñonez: Ni de Aquí, Ni de Allá
Featured Visualizing AbolitionInstitute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz, United StatesOrganized in partnership with the Center for Art and Advocacy, located in Brooklyn, New York, Ni de Aquí, Ni de Allá (Not From Here, Not From There) by multidisciplinary artist […]
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Graduate Programs in Engineering & Computer Science at USC
Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAThe University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering is pleased to host a graduate information session at UC Santa Cruz. The session will begin with a non-school specific presentation on why you might consider graduate school; whether an MS, MENG or PhD is right for you; and what you need to do to prepare. We will then continue with specific information on the opportunities at USC for graduate engineering and computer science students.
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The science of life in the neighborhood—and beyond
UC Santa Cruz is bringing Science in the Neighborhood to South County! Join us for our first event in Aptos. Are we alone in the universe? Answering that question begins […]
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Barnstorm Presents: The Flick, by playwright Annie Baker
Theater Arts B100 Studio Theater 453 Kerr Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesExplore the daily struggles and heartbreaks of a failing movie theater in central Massachusetts in this production presented by the UCSC student-led Barnstorm Theater Company at Theater Arts B100 Studio Theater.
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Nightmare on the Dance Floor
Oakes Lower Lawn Oakes College, Santa Cruz, CANightmare on the Dance Floor (Fright Night Rave) Get ready for a spooktacular night! In collaboration with the Colleges and the Center for Leadership and Involvement (CLI), Fright Night features […]
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CSE Colloquium: Accelerated Diffusion Models
Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAPresenter: Julius Berner, NVIDIA Abstract: Diffusion and flow models have driven major advances in image, video, and 3D content generation, as well as in a wide range of scientific applications. […]
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Seymour Center Homeschool Day: Spectacular Science
Seymour Marine Discovery Center 100 McAllister Way, Santa Cruz, CACalling all homeschool families! Join the Seymour Center on Friday, October 30, at 10 a.m. for a morning of hands-on science investigations, aquarium feeds, a scavenger hunt, and lots more. • Enjoy hands-on […]
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ECE Special Seminar: “Bilevel Optimization for Agentic AI: From Theory to Retrieval-augmented Agentic Reinforcement Learning”
Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAPresented by: Quan Xiao, PhD Candidate @ Cornell University Description: “Agentic AI systems combine large language models with system-level design choices such as post-training data selection, retrieval, tool use, and memory […]
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Menendez, J. (BMEB) – Resolving the variation and remodeling of human centromeres and telomeres with telomere-to-telomere genomes
Biomedical Sciences Building 575 McLaughlin DriveHybrid EventCentromeres and telomeres are essential for chromosome stability, yet their highly repetitive sequences have historically limited study of their variation and dynamics. Centromeres direct kinetochore assembly on megabase-scale alpha-satellite (αSat) […]
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Produce Pop-Up
Produce Pop-Up is a twice-weekly organic farmstand open to all members of the UC Santa Cruz community. The program is dedicated to increasing access to fresh, healthy, and affordable organic […]
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Asri, M. (BMEB) – Genome Inference in the Pangenome Era
Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAHuman genome references have provided unified coordinate systems for mapping genetic variation, enabling numerous discoveries in genomics. However, mapping to a single linear reference can be misleading or even impossible […]
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Barnstorm Presents: The Flick, by playwright Annie Baker
Theater Arts B100 Studio Theater 453 Kerr Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesExplore the daily struggles and heartbreaks of a failing movie theater in central Massachusetts in this production presented by the UCSC student-led Barnstorm Theater Company at Theater Arts B100 Studio Theater.
Free – $20