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    Your AI Advantage: Tools, Skills, and Career Paths

    Silicon Valley Campus 3175 Bowers Avenue, Santa Clara, CA, United States

    Transform your workplace with practical AI skills. Explore how to lead with AI—whether you want to build it or apply it. In this information session, discover two dynamic pathways: AI […]

  • Opening Celebration for EASP M.F.A. Exhibition—”Picking up Shells Amid a Tsunami”

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

    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 […]

  • Purple and black microchip.

    The toughest challenges in advanced IC development

    Silicon Valley Campus 3175 Bowers Avenue, Santa Clara, CA, United States

    Explore the expanding career opportunities in semiconductors The modern economy is powered by silicon and the demand for skilled professionals in semiconductor design and engineering continues to grow. In this […]

  • Film Screening: Sotong and Against this Messy World

    Humanities 1 Building 257 Cowell-Stevenson Road, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    On April 6, 2026, the Graduate Training in Southeast Asia (GETSEA) consortium and UCSC’s Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions will host two short films highlighting the challenges to art […]

    Free

  • Statistics Seminar: Some Recent Results on Transfer Learning

    Presenter: Oscar Hernan Madrid Padilla, Assistant Professor, University of California, Los Angeles Description: In the first part of the talk, I will introduce TRansfer leArning via guideD horseshoE prioR (TRADER), […]

  • A rock cliff near a beach with text that reads Next Wave of Faculty in Genomics Symposium. Registration is free but required.

    Next Wave of Faculty in Genomics Symposium

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

    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 […]

  • An Indigenous elder holds a traditional drum and speaks into a microphone held by a woman during a cultural presentation at the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn.

    Indigenous Language Revitalization

    Hay Barn 94 Ranch View Road, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Join the American Indian Resource Center for Indigenous Language Revitalization on April 7, 2026, from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn. This presentation explores the history of land, […]

  • 2026 History of Science Lecture

    History of Science Lecture with Jennifer Derr

    Music Center Recital Hall 400 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CA
    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 and open to the public
  • robot holding a telescope with 2026 in background.

    What’s new in AI?

    Lead innovation as a machine learning engineer Want to learn what’s new in AI? Join Praveen Krishna, chair of the Artificial Intelligence Application Development certificate program, in an informal discussion about the AI topic of the month and an open Q&A. You’ll get an insider’s look at what you need to know for where you […]

  • Ticknor, B. (STAT) – Clustering and Tractable Multivariate Inference for Extremes

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

    Modeling environmental extremes often involves large collections of spatial or temporal records where both clustering similar series and modeling dependence among extremes are challenging tasks. This Ph.D. proposal addresses several […]

  • “Words That Impress: Creating a Great Résumé & Cover Letter”

    Career Success Student Lounge (125 Hahn) 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Crafting a fantastic Resume and Cover Letter are the key to getting an interview and landing a job! Join us for this informative workshop that will cover best practices for resume and cover letter development. You’ll gain understanding about the perfect format, navigating AI filters, and how to write captivating resume bullet points and engaging cover letter paragraphs. The presentation will be 45 minutes, followed by 15 minutes of optional worktime here in our office with coaches to give you brief input.

  • Arts Internship Scholarship Info Session

    Digital Arts Research Center 407 McHenry Rd, Santa Cruz, CA

    UC Santa Cruz students are invited to an info session to review the Arts Division’s internship scholarship application process and address frequently asked questions. More information about the scholarship here. — ADMISSION – This event is for currently enrolled UC Santa Cruz Arts Division students only – Attend in person or online – In-person attendance […]

  • Partners Flyer

    Partners Film Screening

    Oakes Learning Center

    Join the Center for Labor and Community for a free film screening of the documentary, Partners: How Starbucks Baristas Started a Labor Revolution. Following the screening there will be a […]

    free

  • Taming Two Scorpions: Climate Science Tipping Points Meet Finance Tail Risks

    When two quite different disciplines make eerily similar predictions about the future of the planet and human societies, they deserve notice. Climate scientists warn that we may be heading toward a Hothouse Earth “inhospitable to … human societies,” with “increasingly catastrophic impacts” possibly “worldwide societal breakdown.”       Finance and actuarial science emphasize the importance of tail […]

  • BME seminar

    BME 80G Seminar: Sara Ackerman – Doing Ethics From The Inside: Collaboration, Critique, and Contradiction in Team Science

    Jack Baskin Auditorium 191 Baskin Cir, Santa Cruz, CA

    Presenter: Sara Ackerman, Medical Anthropologist and Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco Description: Team science has been widely promoted as a collaborative, cross-disciplinary approach to addressing key scientific questions, yet power differences and epistemic hierarchies persist. This talk explores "embedded ethics"—a model in which social scientists and ethicists work directly […]