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2026 Right Livelihood International Conference

Hybrid Event

The Right Livelihood International Conference is a five-week global conference exploring how education can strengthen democracy, collective intelligence, and just futures. Bringing together Right Livelihood Laureates, students, faculty, and community partners across continents, the conference combines asynchronous learning with participatory dialogue and collaborative action. Rather than advocating specific outcomes, the conference positions education as a democratic […]

BME 280B Seminar: Speaker Dr. Aaron Newman – Molecular and spatial determinants of single-cell developmental states in cancer

Biomedical Sciences Building 575 McLaughlin Drive

Presenter: Dr. Newman, Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University   Description: Determining the factors that shape cell potency—the ability of a cell to differentiate into other cell types—is essential for understanding tissue biology in health and disease, including cancer. In previous work, we found that single-cell transcriptional diversity decreases across […]

Climate Tech & Sustainability Showcase

Jack Baskin Engineering Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz

Join us for a Climate Tech & Sustainability Showcase, where students, faculty, climate and sustainability-focused companies, founders, and community organizations come together to share their work and ideas. The event is part of Baskin Engineering Climate Week, focused on raising awareness of climate issues and sustainability research and teaching. Explore a range of interactive demos, […]

Pawl, E. (STAT) – Flexible and Scalable Mixtures of Experts for Oceanographic Flow Cytometry Data

Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz
Hybrid Event

Flow cytometry is a valuable technique in microbial research used to measure the optical properties of single-celled organisms at high throughput. Oceanographers often deploy flow cytometers on research cruises in order to study the characteristics of phytosynthetic microbes—called phytoplankton—in regions and times with diverse environmental conditions. Because cytometers cannot distinguish between subpopulations, researchers typically cluster […]

Artist Roundtable for EASP M.F.A. Exhibition—”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 (EASP) M.F.A. program at UC Santa Cruz presents new projects—Picking up Shells Amid a Tsunami 쓰나미가 밀려오는데, 조개나 줍고 있네—developed through concentrated inquiry over a two-year period and offers a window into the artists’ unique long-term research projects that expand beyond the gallery space. — FULL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS […]

Careers in Climate Tech & Sustainability

Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz

Ready to explore career pathways that matter? Attend our very special Careers in Climate Tech & Sustainability Panel—celebrating Baskin Engineering Climate Week—for an inside look at careers that will help build a sustainable future. Panelists representing different roles and organizations will share their career journeys and offer practical insights into working in climate tech. There […]

Artist Talk with Federico Cuatlacuatl

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

We invite you to join us for a film screeening and discussion with artist Federico Cuatlacuatl. This will be the west coast premiere of  QUEMAR LAS PATAS DEL IMPERIO (to burn the feet of the empire), Cuatlacuatl’s newest work. Federico Cuatlacuatl (b. San Francisco Coapan, Cholula, Puebla -México) is Horace W. Goldsmith Distinguished Teaching Associate […]