Joshua McFadden, Six Seasons of Pasta

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

Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes James Beard Award-winning author Joshua McFadden for a discussion and signing of his highly anticipated new cookbook Six Seasons of Pasta. In his follow-up to Six Seasons: A New Way with Vegetables, McFadden teaches home cooks how to use storebought dried pasta to create seasonal, restaurant-quality dishes at home. Get tickets

$48
Drop-In Figure Drawing

Drop-In Figure Drawing

Elena Baskin Visual Arts Center Baskin Service Road, Santa Cruz, CA

Drop-In Draw provides a live model and room monitor. There is no formal lesson and only dry media is allowed (no paints). — ADVISORIES – These events contain mature content and nudity. – Drop-In Draw is subject to the possibility of last-minute cancellation without notification, and sessions are not guaranteed. — ADMISSION – FREE and […]

FREE and open to the public.

CSE Colloquium – The C++11 Concurrency Memory Model: Remaining Challenges

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

Presenter: Hans Boehm, Google Abstract: C++11 extended the language to include threads, defining a concurrency memory model to specify the semantics of shared variables, including “atomic” variables that can be accessed without mutual exclusion. Although this followed Posix threads by more than a decade, and the revision of the Java memory model by a few […]

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

Enoughness in the Age of Comparison

What does “enough” look like in your life—and who gets to decide? In a world that constantly pushes us to do, earn, and be more, this webinar invites you to pause and reflect. Join a panel of UC alumni and financial wellness experts for a meaningful conversation about redefining financial success—not as accumulation, but as […]

Free

Penumbra de la memoria: Brown Bag with Maya Scherr-Willson

Huerta Center Conference Room (Casa Latina) 641 Merrill Rd, Santa Cruz,, CA

During this presentation, Maya Scherr-Willson (PhD Student in the Film and Media Department) will show material and reflect on insights from a research trip that laid the groundwork for Penumbra de la memoria, a feature documentary to be shot this summer. The project reunites eight women fifty years after they were held as political prisoners together […]

These Hands Heal: Growing, Planting, and Understanding

College 9 & John R. Lewis College Garden

Join us for These Hands Heal: Growing, Planting, & Understanding on Wednesday, October 22, from 1–4 PM in the College 9 & John R. Lewis College Garden. As part of Relationship, Dating, and Domestic Violence Awareness/Action Month (RDDVAM), UC Santa Cruz students, staff, and faculty are invited to plant seeds, paint messages of support or reflection, and place these symbols of resilience in gardens and shared spaces. Art supplies, snacks, and community provided — co-sponsored by College 9’s CoCurricular Programs Office.

BME 280B Seminar: Computational Models of Biological Systems

Physical Sciences Building Physical Sciences Building, Santa Cruz, CA

Presenter: Chen-Hsiang Yeang, Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Statistical Science of Academia Sinica Description: Computational models are roughly categorized into two types: describing the patterns of the phenomenon or data (description-driven models) and explaining the phenomenon or data with simpler, comprehensible rules (explanation-driven models). When building a model, the choice of the mixture ingredients of […]

Elevator Pitch Competition

Are you ready to showcase your communication and persuasion skills? We’re excited to invite you to our Elevator Pitch Competition! Snacks provided!

Deliver a 60-second pitch that wows the judges to compete for amazing prizes!

Prizes: $100 Amazon Gift Card and company swag!

A Conversation on Black Ecologies

Rachel Carson College 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA

Join the Sociology Department together with the Center for Critical Urban & Environmental Studies (CUES), The Black Geographies Lab, and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies in the Rachel Carson College Red Room, to welcome speakers Tianna Bruno and Justin Hosbey (UC Berkeley) for a conversation on Black Ecologies.

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 […]

Free
Successful Slug Workshops

Successful Slug Workshop: Campus Community & Student Success (on Zoom!)

Virtual Event

Campus Community & Student Success Thursday, October 23, 2:05 p.m.– 2:50 p.m. Location: Zoom Learn how to get involved with the campus community and how it supports student success. Successful Slug Workshop Series Join Learning Support Services (LSS) for Successful Slug Workshops on Mondays at 11:40 a.m. and Wednesdays at 2:05 p.m. These 45-minute workshops […]

Robots that Know What They Do Not Know: Assured AI-enabled Autonomy in Unknown Environments

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

Speaker: Yiannis Kantaros, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Systems Engineering at WashU in St. Louis. Title: Robots that Know What They Do Not Know: Assured AI-enabled Autonomy in Unknown Environments. Time: Thursday, Oct 23rd, 2025, 2:00-3:00 pm. Location: E2-553 or Zoom. Abstract: Designing robots that navigate unfamiliar environments to execute natural language (NL) commands is a cornerstone of advanced embodied intelligence. […]

Wiki-a-thon Supporting BIPOC Scientists

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

Join us for an afternoon of creating and editing pages for BIPOC scientists, engineers, and technologists! Wikipedia overwhelmingly recognizes the achievements of white people. This wiki-a-thon works to reverse this trend, highlighting the often overlooked accomplishments of BIPOC leaders in science and technology, and ensuring that the next generation can see role models who look […]

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 […]

Free
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