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  • Top International Relations Graduate Schools Information Session

    Top Grad Schools in International Relations

    Cervantes and Velasquez Conference Room – Bay Tree Conference Center 420 Hagar Dr, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Georgetown SFS, Columbia SIPA, Johns Hopkins SAIS, and Tufts Fletcher will be visiting UCSC! This is a great opportunity for students to hear from all four schools at the same time

  • CSE Colloquium: Mitigating Data Scarcity via Simulation by Roozbeh Mottaghi

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

    Presenter: Roozbeh Mottaghi, University of Washington Abstract: Data has revolutionized progress across AI fields like natural language processing and computer vision. Yet, in robotics, data collection remains a significant challenge: […]

    Free
  • yellow slug mascot in toga holding scroll in front of UC Seal

    Joint Senate/Admin Forum — Development of Achievement Relative to Opportunity (ARO) Guidelines for UC Santa Cruz Personnel Review

    Virtual Event

    Zoom Forum
    We invite all faculty to provide comments and questions regarding the Academic Senate Task Force on UC Adaptation to Disruptions (UCAD) Charge, and UCAD Interim Report (July, 2025).
    UCAD’s purpose was to develop response strategies that aim to uphold the teaching and education, research and discovery, and public service mission areas of the University of California in the context of disruptive federal executive orders, uncertain federal and state partnerships, and evolving shifts in the higher education landscape. The report makes interim recommendations related to four key categories:
    Research Funding Assistance
    Academic Personnel Evaluations During Disruptions
    Program Resizing and Restructuring
    Need for Flexibility in Course Offerings and Modalities

  • American Agitators film banner

    American Agitators Screening at Cabrillo

    Cabrillo College 6500 Soquel Dr., Aptos, CA, United States

    American Agitators comes to Santa Cruz! We cordially invite you to the screening of American Agitators with a discussion and a Free Dinner! Spaces are limited, so RSVP today! Sponsored by […]

    free
  • A Joyful Noise—video

    A Joyful Noise—video, music, panel discussion, and fellowship

    Music Center Recital Hall 400 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    Audiences are invited to listen, share, and express ideas and feelings about individual and collective struggles in this interdisciplinary event featuring music, arts, science, and creative videography.

    FREE and open to the public

  • BME 280B Seminar: Anne Nakamoto, Alan Zhang, Shelbi Russell

    Physical Sciences Building Physical Sciences Building, Santa Cruz, CA

    Presenter 1: Anne Nakamoto, BME PhD Candidate, Corbett-Detig Lab, UC Santa Cruz Talk: Investigating deleterious mutation burden across populations and landscapes in the California Conservation Genomics Project Description: Biodiversity is being […]

  • Headshot of Rebecca Hernandez

    Campus to Career: Job Talk with Rebecca Hernandez, Community Archivist

    Virtual Event

    Wondering what you can do with your Arts or Humanities degree? Come hear from a real professional on our campus with a background in both. If you are interested in careers in higher education, museums, or archives, this event is for you!

  • Artist Talk for “Sculptures by Doyle Foreman: A Retrospective”

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

    Join Doyle Foreman for a talk with the artist as part of the Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery’s fall exhibition, Sculptures by Doyle Foreman: A Retrospective, which celebrates the career of metal sculptor and UC Santa Cruz Professor Emeritus Doyle Foreman.

    FREE and open to the public

  • Indignant Liberalism: Political Protest and Generational Change in El Salvador

    Bay Tree Building Student Union, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    In 2013 anthropologist Ellen Moodie embedded with indignados—young middle-class protestors demanding that the government live up to its liberal commitments—to better understand the course of political change since the civil […]

  • 59th Faculty Research Lecture Featuring Professor Natalie Batalha

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

    Professor Batalha’s research reveals the Universe to us, helping us better understand Earth’s origins and the possible future. Her research includes the detection and characterization of exoplanets and the study of exoplanet demographics. With the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, Professor Batalha has been leading international collaborations of hundreds of scientists to investigate what these exoplanets are composed of and how they formed. These are simply groundbreaking observations, and it is unlikely there will be another moment in the field like this for decades.

  • Family Weekend 2025

    Family Weekend 2025

    We’re excited to announce Nov. 7-9 as the dates for UCSC’s second annual Family Weekend, bringing families together to experience UC Santa Cruz’s vibrant campus life and community spirit. The […]

  • “Bring Them Home” Screening

    Namaste Lounge 615 College Nine Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    The American Indian Resource Center will be screening "Bring Them Home" at the Namaste Lounge this November 7th. "Bring Them Home" is more than a film; it is a movement […]

  • Family Weekend 2025

    Family Weekend 2025

    We’re excited to announce Nov. 7-9 as the dates for UCSC’s second annual Family Weekend, bringing families together to experience UC Santa Cruz’s vibrant campus life and community spirit. The […]

  • Family Weekend 2025

    Family Weekend 2025

    We’re excited to announce Nov. 7-9 as the dates for UCSC’s second annual Family Weekend, bringing families together to experience UC Santa Cruz’s vibrant campus life and community spirit. The […]

  • AM Seminar: Structure-Preserving Discretizations and their Applications

    Jack Baskin Engineering Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA

    Presenter: Andy Wan, Assistant Professor, University of California, Merced   Description: Many models from science and engineering possess fundamental structures which are important to preserve in order for accurate and stable long-term […]

  • Visual & Media Cultures Colloquium (VMCC) Series

    Porter College D-Building, Santa Cruz, CA

    The Visual & Media Cultures Colloquium (VMCC) is an annual lecture series that brings cutting-edge scholars to speak on a broad range of subjects related to visual and media culture. […]

    FREE and open to the public