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Exhibition—The One with the Manes, works by Yasmine Benabdallah

Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery Baskin Service Road, Santa Cruz

A multimedia exhibition by Yasmine Benabdallah, Film and Digital Media PhD candidate, explores a shared history between Morocco, Brazil, and Portugal through video installations, photographs, and watercolors. More information about the artist. Admission – FREE and open to the public. – Gallery hours are Mon.–Sat., noon–5:00 p.m. – More Gallery information here. Full schedule of […]

FREE and open to the public

March is Hummingbird Month at the UCSC Arboretum & Botanic Garden

Arboretum 122 Arboretum Road, Santa Cruz

Celebrate the wild acrobats of hummingbirds during their courtship & territorial displays in the gardens! Visit our website for special event updates throughout March! arboretum.ucsc.edu/visit/events

$10.00

Optional Practical Training (OPT) Awareness Week

Join us for OPT Awareness Week at UC Santa Cruz, a supportive and informative series designed to help international students learn about and confidently prepare for Optional Practical Training. You’ll learn application steps, key timelines, and employment rules while connecting with advisors and peers who are here to help you succeed. Whether you’re just starting to explore […]

CSE Colloquium – Improving Efficiency and Reliability of Foundation Models in Clinical AI

Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz

Presenter: Vasiliki “Vicky” Bikia, PhD, Stanford Department of Biomedical Data Science and Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI) Abstract: Deploying foundation models in health requires both computational efficiency and reliable generation. In this talk, I present two studies that address these dimensions separately but with a shared goal of real-world clinical deployment. The first study focuses on […]

Free

Shields, S. (CM) – Procedural, Player-Centric Game Balancing

Merrill College College Office, Santa Cruz
Hybrid Event

Game balance is a term widely used among players, researchers, and designers of games. It is a concept that feels vitally important to how we make and play games – but when we try to define it or implement it, we seldom get the same definition twice. Balance appears differently to whoever is judging it, […]

College Night: Gotta Catch Them All? – a Pokémon themed event exploring animal rights

College Nights
College Nine and John R. Lewis Dining Hall

College Nine and John R. Lewis College, in collaboration with UCSC Dining, present “Gotta Catch Them All? ” – a Pokémon-themed event exploring animal rights. Join us Wednesday, March 4 from 5–8 p.m. at the College Nine/John R. Lewis Dining Hall for a night of activities, fun, community, and a special themed menu. Standard dining […]

Ways to Wellness

Namaste Lounge 615 College Nine Road, Santa Cruz

Join the Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center on Wednesday 3/4 from 5:30-7:00pm at Namaste Lounge to learn about Tai Chi and Yoga, as we highlight Asian wellness tools that can be used to help relieve stress and discuss how cultural wellness practices can help us connect to our communities. Feel free to bring your own yoga mat, towel, or blanket! RSVP at bit.ly/aapirc-wellness […]

The UC Santa Cruz Kraw Lecture Series presents: Unmasking cancer’s complete genetic code

The UC Santa Cruz Kraw Lecture Series
Silicon Valley Campus 3175 Bowers Avenue, Santa Clara

In this Kraw lecture, Angela Brooks will discuss her work on cancer research. Current cancer research focuses almost entirely on finding errors—mutations—in DNA. This has given us incredible tools like precision oncology, matching patients with targeted drugs. But cancer cells almost always develop drug resistance, causing treatments to fail and limiting patient survival. An often-overlooked […]

Unexpected Returns: The Historic Entanglements of Fire, Settlement, and Stewardship in the Santa Cruz Mountains

Intersections of Climate Change
Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz

Join UCSC  faculty members Miriam Greenberg and Andrew Matthews as they discuss the deep regional histories of fire, from indigenous burning, settler ranching, fire suppression, and much more. This event is part of Intersections of Climate Change,  a series organized with the Friedlaender Lab in conjunction with Weather and the Whale. ADMISSION – FREE and […]

FREE and open to the public

Unexpected Returns: The Historic Entanglements of Fire, Settlement, and Stewardship in the Santa Cruz Mountains

Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz

March 4th, 2026 from 6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Miriam Greenberg and Andrew Matthews will present the findings of UCSC researchers who have spent three years studying the ecological, social, and political economic processes that have set the stage for contemporary wildfires, in what has become known as the “Wildland Urban Interface” (WUI). Come and […]

Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Two Noble Kinsmen – Episode I

Shakespeare returns to the characters and themes of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in what may have been the last play he had a hand in writing: The Two Noble Kinsmen. This time, however, the story of Theseus and Hippolyta, the disorienting experience of adolescent sexual desire, and the conflict of duties to sovereigns, parents, friends, and spouses are […]