Ongoing

Environmental Art & Social Practice: Picking up Shells Amid a Tsunami

Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery Baskin Service Road, Santa Cruz

The culminating exhibition of the Environmental Art and Social Practice MFA program at UCSC presents new projects developed through concentrated inquiry over a two-year period and offers a window into […]

FREE and open to the public

Spring 2026 Drop in Figure Drawing

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

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 […]

FREE and open to the public.

Next Wave of Faculty in Genomics Symposium

Jack Baskin Engineering Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz

The BME Department and Genomics Institute are once again hosting our annual Next Wave of Faculty in Genomics Symposium, which will be held on April 7th from 11:40–1:15 in E2 180. Please join us to hear […]

History of Science Lecture with Jennifer Derr

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Music Center Recital Hall 400 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz
Hybrid Event

The damming of the Nile River transformed agriculture and human health in 20th-century Egypt. While dams enabled year-round irrigation and provided hydroelectricity, the prevalence of parasitic disease also skyrocketed. Professor Derr explores the effects of damming the Nile on the health of Egyptians and the impact of large-scale environmental transformation on the knowledge and practice that made medicine during the 20th century.

Free