College Nights

College Night: 831 Night Market

Cowell/Stevenson Dining Hall 520 Cowell-Stevenson Road, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

Cowell and Stevenson Colleges, in collaboration with UCSC Dining, present the first College Night of the year! Join us Thursday, October 23, from 5–8 p.m. at the Cowell/Stevenson Dining Hall for a night of activities, fun, community, and a special themed menu. Standard dining hall entry pricing applies, and all students, faculty, and staff are […]

From Campus to Career – Tara Hernandez VP, Developer Productivity at MongoDB

Jack Baskin School of Engineering 506 – Engineering 2 (E2) Engineering 2, 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, United States

Join us this October 23rd for an enlightening conversation with Tara Hernandez, VP of Developer Productivity at MongoDB! In this casual conversation, Tara will share lessons learned from their illustrious career in software engineering infrastructure. With stints at companies like Netscape, Mozilla, Pixar, Google, MongoDB, and more, you’ll come away with some highly useful insight on how to navigate a successful […]

Mary Roach – Replaceable You

London Nelson Community Center 301 Center St., Santa Cruz, United States

Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes #1 New York Times bestselling author Mary Roach for a discussion about Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy. In this irrepressible new work, Mary Roach explores the remarkable advances and difficult questions prompted by the human body’s failings. When and how does a person decide they’d be better off with a prosthetic than their […]

Innovations in Health Care Virtual Conference

💫 Transform Healthcare with Us! 🧬🏥 🌟 5-Day Virtual Summit 2025: “Innovation, Ethics & the Next Frontier in Healthcare” 🌟 🗓️ Oct 20–24 | 9–11AM PST 💻 100% FREE | Live Online Meet visionary leaders shaping the future of healthcare: ✨ Prof. Henry Greely  ✨ Dr. James Giordano ✨ Lisa Berkley, PhD ✨ Alice Rathjen […]

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Produce Pop-Up

Produce Pop-Up

Affordable produce from the campus farm and local farmers market for students and the community! Fall 2025 Schedule Wednesdays: 11am–3pm at Quarry Plaza Fridays: 11am–3pm outside the Science & Engineering Library

Science & Justice Training Program Informational Meeting

Virtual Event

On Friday, October 24th from 2-3:00pm, on Zoom, join the Science & Justice Research Center for an Informational Meeting on our internationally recognized interdisciplinary Graduate Training and Certificate Program.

Campus Debt is a Labor Issue

Rachel Carson College 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA

Join the Center for Labor and Community on Friday, October 24, from 2-4pm at the Rachel Carson Red Room for a conversation on campus debt, austerity, and labor organizing in higher education. Drawing from his book, Lend and Rule: Fighting Shadow Financialization of Public Universities (2024), Jason Wozniak, of the Debt Collective and the Coalition […]

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Preparing for Graduate School Applications

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

Join us to get an overview of the timeline for applying to graduate school and the common application components. We will share resources on writing personal statements and statements of purpose, requesting letters of recommendation, and more. We will provide captions for the presentation. If you have disability-related needs, please contact the Career Success office […]

Elevate Your Interviews: Strategies for Success

Job interviews can be challenging, even for seasoned professionals. Preparation and practice are key. This one-day workshop for the PMI Silicon Valley Chapter, led by communications coach Karen Schiff, will teach you the skills you need to ace your next interview. Throughout the day, you’ll learn how to craft your responses, both the organization and […]

$50

Welcome to the City: East Bay

CityTeam Oakland 722 Washington Street, Oakland, United States

Join us for an Alumni Volunteer Day at CityTeam Oakland.

Noche de Recuerdos

Stevenson Event Center Stevenson Service Road, Santa Cruz, CA

Join us for Noche de Recuerdos—an evening of remembrance, celebration, and community. Enjoy a screening of Coco at 5 p.m., Kahoot prizes, hot chocolate, pan de muerto, face painting, lotería, ofrendas, and more! All are welcome. Come together to celebrate life and memory. 💐 Questions or accommodation requests: cwprogra@ucsc.edu You Belong Here: The programs and […]

Barnstorm Presents: 24-Hour Theater

Theater Arts Center 453 Kerr Road, Santa Cruz, CA

Audiences are invited to attend the grand finale of this 24-Hour Theater process.

Free – $20

Echoes on the Hill

Colleges Nine and John R. Lewis College Multi-purpose Room 615 College Nine Road, Santa Cruz, CA

Join us for a night of live music and campus energy at the JRL MPR Stage! This recurring showcase celebrates the incredible talent of UC Santa Cruz’s student-led bands, bringing the community together through sound, creativity, and Slug spirit. This edition features Empire Grade, a high-energy punk band making waves in the UCSC music scene. […]

ECE 290 Seminar: Performance Bounds and Bottlenecks for Neuromorphic ML Accelerators

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

Presenter: Jason Yik, PhD Candidate, Harvard SEAS Description: Recent research on neuromorphic accelerators has investigated their efficiency and performance benefits for machine learning (ML) inference at the edge. This talk will focus on the performance implications of the fully-on-chip, manycore-distributed memory architecture used by current neuromorphic accelerators. In conventional architectures, the roofline model is a […]

BIPOC Outdoors: Fall Garden Tour

Stevenson Community Garden Stevenson College, Santa Cruz, CA

Join the People of Color Sustainability Collective for our annual Fall Garden Tour! This event was created to give students of color an opportunity to explore green spaces around campus and be in community with one another. The first part of the day will consist of students taking a walking tour through several campus gardens, […]

Road Trip! Light in the American West, from Baja to the Yukon

Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery 11 Cowell Service Rd, Santa Cruz, CA

The photographs in this exhibition, made between 2004 and 2025, span across the American West from the Baja California Peninsula in Mexico to The Yukon territory in Canada. Paul Schoellhamer’s (Cowell ‘69) color photographs invite us to travel with him and reflect on our relationship to land, the light that shapes it, and the freedom […]

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Statistics Seminar: Sampling Depth Trade-Off in Function Estimation Under a Two-Level Design

Presenter: Akira Horiguchi, Visiting Assistant Professor, University of California, Davis Description: Many modern statistical applications involve a two-level sampling scheme that first samples subjects from a population and then samples observations on each subject. These schemes often are designed to learn both the population-level functional structures shared by the subjects and the functional characteristics specific […]

AM Seminar: Why do we care about inertial waves on the Sun?

Presenter: Ms. Catherine Blume, University of Colorado-Boulder Description: Recent observations of Rossby waves and other inertial oscillations in the Sun’s convection zone have kindled the hope that such waves might be used as a seismic probe of the Sun’s interior. Here, we present a 3D numerical simulation in spherical geometry that models the Sun’s convection […]

Julian Brave NoiseCat – We Survived the Night

London Nelson Community Center 301 Center St., Santa Cruz, United States

Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Julian Brave NoiseCat who will share his stunning debut We Survived the Night. Drawing from five years of on-the-ground reporting, We Survived the Night paints a profound and unforgettable portrait of contemporary Indigenous life, alongside an intimate and deeply powerful reckoning between a father and a son. Soulful, formally daring, indelible work […]

Last modified: Oct 27, 2025