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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, […]

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

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

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