• Exhibition—The Audacity to Create, works by BIPOC UC Santa Cruz alumni

    Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery Baskin Service Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    The 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, Seráb Serabia, Aleya Caballero, Edward Ramirez, Josselyne Morales, and Marceline Valentine. ADMISSION Attend in person at the Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery at UC Santa […]

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  • Health for the Holidays Wellness Challenge for Faculty and Staff

    Registration: November 2 – November 23 Challenge runs: November 16 – December 13 Learn more at the Health for the Holidays website. Represent UCSC in the UC systemwide healthy habits holiday challenge! This lighthearted wellness campaign can help everyone have a healthier, happier holiday season. As you log daily behaviors you “paint” magical winter scenes […]

  • Rupy C. Tut Talk

    Senson: Porter Faculty Gallery 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Rupy C. Tut (b. 1985, Chandigarh, India) is a painter dissecting historical and contemporary displacement narratives around identity, belonging, and gender. Tut migrated from India to the United States at age 12, an experience reflective of her Sikh ancestors, who were repeatedly uprooted and transplanted. A polyglot who speaks English, Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, and Spanish, […]

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  • Creative Roots

    Terry Freitas Commons 600 McLaughlin Dr. College Nine, Santa Cruz, CA

    The C9/JRLC CoCurricular Programs Office, Cantú Queer Resource Center, and Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center present: Creative Roots – a collective care workshop to explore ancestral veneration Date: Wednesday 11/4 Location: Terry Freitas Commons Time: 5:30-7:30pm Who are our ancestors? Who are ancestors including and beyond the biological? What messages do they want to share with us? Learn and […]

  • Drop-in Figure Drawing

    Drop-In Figure Drawing
    Elena Baskin Visual Arts Center Baskin Service Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    Drop-In Draw provides a live model and room monitor. There is no formal lesson and only dry media is allowed (no paints). — ADVISORIES These events contain mature content and nudity. Drop-In Draw is subject to the possibility of last-minute cancellation without notification, and sessions are not guaranteed. ADMISSION Free and open to the public. […]

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  • Large Language Models & Bias

    Cultural Center – Merrill College 641 Merrill Rd, Santa Cruz, United States

    This talk will discuss some of the history of large language models like ChatGPT and Claude. What are they and how did they get so big? We’ll also discuss how their design and composition create bias in their output, and the attempts being made to mitigate that bias.

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  • Program in Biomedical Sciences & Engineering (PBSE) Virtual Open House

    Zoom

    The Program in Biomedical Sciences & Engineering (PBSE) invites prospective PhD students to a virtual Open House, where they can learn about faculty, research, and opportunities at UCSC through conversations with faculty members and current students. 11-11:30am: PBSE Overview 11:30-12pm: Track overviews 12-1pm: Faculty/Program Drop-Ins Register here: https://forms.gle/oxP5Ef1zjTndrNVMA PBSE Website: https://pbse.ucsc.edu/

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  • BME 280B Seminar: Dr. Jeff Hasty – “Engineered cellular differentiation in physiologically relevant environments”

    BME 280B Seminar
    Physical Sciences Building Physical Sciences Building, Santa Cruz, CA

    Welcome to the 6th 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. Class enrollment is not required. Please join us this week to learn more about the works of Dr. Jeff Hasty: Title of Talk: Engineered cellular […]

  • Marketing Yourself In The Arts Industry

    Virtual Event

    As you consider a career in an Arts-related industry, you might be wondering “How do I market myself effectively? What is unique about finding work in the Arts? What transferable skills do I have from my major in the Arts, and how do I use those to stand out as an applicant in the workplace?” […]

  • EOP Alumni Panel & First-Gen Connections

    Virtual Event

    As part of EOP’s First Gen Week celebrations join us in space for First-Gen students to hear Alumni stories, their experience at UCSC, post-graduation, and within their current careers. Alumni will share advice on personal, academic, and professional development. You’ll also have the opportunity to learn practical networking tips and gain guidance on building meaningful […]

  • Aesthetic Breach: Past and Present Struggles for Justice in North African Comics

    Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery 11 Cowell Service Rd, Santa Cruz, CA

    This exhibition brings together comics and graphic narratives from Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco, introducing a broad range of contemporary artists while centering the works of Sadri Khiari, a major figure of the antiracist left in Tunisia and France, and Salim Zerrouki, an Algerian cartoonist whose drawings combine ferocious satire and nostalgia. Across different forms, […]

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  • Drop-in Career Success Peer Coaching Across Campus – McHenry

    McHenry Library 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, CA

    Stop by the Career Success Drop-ins and get professional advice from our Peer Coaches – now available across campus! 📝 Peers will rotate between McHenry and the Science & Engineering Library courtyards from Week 4 through Week 10 this quarter. Drop in for resume and cover letter support, job searching advice, grad school prep, and […]

  • Protect Your Soil in Heavy Rain: Actionable Strategies for Wet Weather

    Virtual Event

    With El Niño expected to bring significant rainfall this season, safeguarding your garden’s foundation is more critical than ever. Join the UC Master Gardeners and the UCSC Center for Agroecology for a timely, practical workshop dedicated to protecting and preserving your garden soil during severe wet weather. In this fast-paced, FREE online session, three experienced Master Gardeners will deliver actionable strategies to help […]

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  • Productive Struggle & Study Skills

    Successful Slug Workshops
    Academic Resources Center (ARC) 408 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    In this workshop, you will: Learn study strategies and why making it hard for yourself supports durable learning. The Successful Slug Workshop series, hosted by Learning Support Services Peer Coaches, are open to all UCSC undergraduate students and focus on academic skills and tools to support your success as a student. At each workshop, you […]

  • Reckoning with Redress: The Legacy of Japanese American Incarceration

    Cultural Center – Merrill College 641 Merrill Rd, Santa Cruz, United States

    Forty-five years ago, survivors and descendants of the WWII Japanese American incarceration, testified before the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC), helping set in motion what would become one of the largest reparations efforts in U.S. history. This year’s Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics lecture marks that anniversary with the launch and premiere […]

  • CSE Colloquium – One Developer, Two Decades, and Thirty Million Users Later: How Python Tutor Became a Long-Lasting and Widely-Used Academic Software Project

    Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA

    Presenter: Philip Guo, UCSD Abstract: Since 2010 I have been developing Python Tutor (https://pythontutor.com/), a tool that lets users write code in a web browser and see what happens step-by-step as the computer runs it. The tool visualizes variables, objects, pointers, data structures, and stack frames. These visuals help students to debug their homework, teachers […]

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