• Transform Your Future Pop-Up (Cookies Included!)

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

    Join Baskin Engineering to celebrate National Engineers Week with a sweet stop at the Transform Your Future Pop-Up (Cookies Included!) 🍪☕ This year’s Engineers Week theme, Transform Your Future, is a powerful reminder that engineering doesn’t just shape our world—it shapes our opportunities, our communities, and the futures we can imagine for ourselves. Swing by […]

  • BE Club Bash – Engineers Week

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

    Discover innovation at the Baskin Engineering Club Bash, an event celebrating National Engineers Week! Mark your calendars for Thursday, February 26, 12–2 PM in the BE Courtyard! The BE Club Bash brings together student organizations across all engineering disciplines to showcase their projects, demos, and interactive activities. Stop by to: Explore hands-on booths and demonstrations from student organizations Learn about engineering opportunities on […]

  • Pachanga 2026: Noche de Baile

    Cultural Center – Merrill College 641 Merrill Rd, Santa Cruz, United States

    Join El Centro, the African American Resource and Cultural Center (AARCC), and Merrill College for our annual Noche de Baile as part of Pachanga 2026! For years, El Centro and the AARCC have collaborated on Pachanga, an annual event series during Black History Month focused on uplifting and celebrating AfroLatinidad. Each year, the series culminates […]

    Free
  • Lunar New Year SC Warriors Game with ISSP

    Kaiser Permanente Arena 140 Front St, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Lunar New Year Santa Cruz Warriors Basketball Game Date: Friday, February 27 Time: 19:00 Tipoff Location: Kaiser Permanente Arena Click here to RSVP for free ticket(s) We are teaming up with […]

  • Monterey Bay Aquarium Trip

    Cowell College 257 Cowell-Stevenson Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    Join International Student Services and Programming (ISSP) for our annual trip to the Monterey Bay Aquarium. This will be a great time to get to know each other more while exploring an exciting and beautiful location. The trip will be limited to 30 participants. Non-international students can also sign up, but priority will be given […]

    $25
  • Formula Slug Open House

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

    We’re excited to announce our Formula Slug Open House at Baskin Engineering on Saturday, February 28th. Last season we placed 18th out of 120 teams representing UC Santa Cruz at the national FSAE competition, the result of a year spent designing, manufacturing, and testing our electric race car. The open house is an opportunity to see the work and decisions […]

  • Barn Dance at the Hay Barn

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

    The UCSC Celtic Music Ensemble performs live during a beginner-friendly, gender-neutral, darn good barn dance. Attendees are invited to dance, and partners are not needed. — ADMISSION – Open admission; tickets/registration not required. – FREE and open to the public. – Donations of any amount are welcomed and appreciated to support to support live music […]

    FREE and open to UCSC affiliates
  • HCI Build Demo Day

    Event Hall 3175 Bowers Ave, Santa Clara, United States

    Welcome to HCI Build Demo Day! Get ready to dive into an exciting in-person event where HCI builders come together to showcase their projects. In Intro to Build at UCSC Silicon Valley Campus, we build with two realms of technologies – digital and physical. HCI 202A will showcase their creative apps they made with React […]

    Free
  • Free Coffee, Snacks, & Conversation

    Merrill College Office 641 Merrill Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    Enjoy a cup of coffee, cocoa, or tea, and a breakfast snack with Merrill Provost McGuinness. Stay and chat with him and Poppy the Merrill Chihuahua, or take it go. See you outside of the Merrill College office, across from the Merrill Mailroom.

    Free
  • A Sacred Witnessing: A Trans Day of Euphoria Event

    Diversity Center 1117 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Join the Cantu Queer Center and the Diversity Center for an intergenerational Trans Day of Visibility gathering rooted in euphoria, joy, and sacred witnessing. Trans, nonbinary, Two-Spirit, and gender-expansive people of all ages are invited to share their stories, create art, and witness each other’s full humanity in a moment of dangerous hypervisibility and harm […]

  • FINS: Fisheries Insights Narratives and Stories seminar series featuring Dr. Randi Solhjell

    Ocean Health Building McAllister Way, Santa Cruz, CA

    Please join us for the first talk in the FINS: Fisheries Insights Narratives and Stories seminar series featuring Fulbright Fellow Dr. Randi Solhjell. Her talk, “Managing a Fishy Business: Norway’s foreign aid and its impact on global fisheries governance” will discuss how Norwegian actors shape global fisheries policy through diplomacy, regulatory innovation and engagement in international institutions such as the UN FAO. She will also discuss how she studies fisheries from a social/political science lens. Preceding the talk please join us for a networking coffee hour (snacks provided) and a student-only lunch after the talk.

  • 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 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 […]

  • UC Santa Cruz Alumni at the Sacramento Kings

    Golden1 Center 500 David J Stern Walk, Sacramento, United States

    Head to a Sacramento Kings game with fellow UC Santa Cruz alumni on Friday, April 3. Sit together, cheer loudly, and connect with Sacramento Slugs at Golden1 Center! Click here to purchase tickets in our section.  

  • Roller Skating Day

    Santa Cruz Roller Palladium 1606 Seabright Ave, Santa Cruz, United States

    Join DSAS Leadership and Involvement and KZSC for a night of music, moves, and retro vibes at the Santa Cruz Roller Palladium! Whether you’re a pro on eight wheels or just trying not to hit the floor, we want to see you there. When: Sunday, April 12 Time: 7 – 9 p.m. Where: Santa Cruz […]

  • Coffee with Provost Aims

    Coffee with Provost Aims
    Merrill College Office 641 Merrill Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    Warm greetings and hot coffee are served by Provost Aims and Poppy the Merrill Chihuahua each Tuesday in April. Breakfast snacks, tea, and cocoa too.

    Stop by and say “hi”

    Free
  • Beyond Men & Masculinity: Film Screening & Conversation

    Namaste Lounge 615 College Nine Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    As part of Sexual Assault Awareness & Action Month (SAAM), join CARE & The Cantú for dinner and a screening of Beyond Men & Masculinity. After the film, we’ll have guided conversation and crafting! Dinner provided, and no RSVP required! For questions or accommodations, please email CARE or The Cantú Center. You Belong Here: The […]

  • Yoga as Healing Series

    Yoga As Healing

    Yoga as Healing is a 7-session trauma-informed yoga and mindfulness program hosted by UCSC’s CARE office. Spring Quarter classes will be held Tuesdays, 6:00–7:30 p.m. from March 31–May 12. Classes are free for students. Each class facilitated by CARE Advocate Abbey Wise (she/ella), includes gentle, trauma-informed movement, breathwork, meditation and reflective journaling to support survivors […]

    Free
  • FINS: Fisheries Insights Narratives and Stories seminar series featuring Dr. George Leonard

    Ocean Health Building McAllister Way, Santa Cruz, CA

    Please join us for the second talk in the FINS: Fisheries Insights Narratives and Stories seminar series featuring Adjunct Professor Dr. George Leonard. His talk, “Lessons learned from my time at the science-policy interface” will discuss his extensive experience at the ocean science-policy interface at major nonprofits (Monterey Bay Aquarium and Ocean Conservancy). He initiated, developed, and led a host of conservation programs during his time at Ocean Conservancy including offshore aquaculture, plastics pollution, ocean acidification, climate change, mesopelagic fisheries, and deep-sea mining. During his early career at Monterey Bay Aquarium, he developed the scientific foundation for the nascent sustainable seafood movement. Preceding the talk please join us for a networking coffee hour (snacks provided) and a student-only lunch after the talk.

  • Black on the Block

    Crown Provost House 660 Crown Service Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    Join the African American Resource & Cultural Center every Thursday from 1–2 p.m., at the front of the Ethnic Resource Center for Black on the Block, a weekly tabling and engagement space. Stop by to learn about campus resources, upcoming programs, and ways to get involved. It’s a casual, welcoming space to ask questions, make […]