• Slugs Campout

    Upper East Field

    Adventure Rec warmly welcome UCSC students to join the 5th annual Campus Campout on the Upper East Field! Friday, September 26, 6:30pm – Saturday, September 27, 9:00am.

  • Fall Harvest Welcome

    UCSC Farm 152 Farm Rd, Santa Cruz, CA

    Join the American Indian Resource Center, People of Color Sustainability Collective, UCSC Agroecology, and the Sustainability Office for a day of fun at the Farm Center! This Fall Harvest Welcome will be all about community building, learning about flora/fauna indigenous to Santa Cruz County, Native storytelling, and will feature a land blessing.

  • Harvest Festival

    UCSC Farm 152 Farm Rd, Santa Cruz, CA

    Connect with community on the campus farm at the annual Harvest Festival!   On the Main Stage: 11:12pm–12:00pm: White Hawk Indian Council for Children 12:30–1:40pm: Sambada  2–3pm: Ancestree  Activities 11-3pm Apple pressing for cider Pumpkin and produce sales Apple pie baking contest (more details here) Face painting Pumpkin painting Bouquet making Tractor rides 1:45pm Medicinal Plant Walk […]

    Free – $5
  • Festival of Monsters: Oh, the Horror!

    Bookshop Santa Cruz

    exploring the ways monsters and tropes of monstrosity pervade our culture.

    Registration Required; FREE and open to the public
  • 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
  • Trans & Queer Fall Mixer

    Porter/Kresge Dining Hall 411 Porter-Kresge Rd, Santa Cruz, CA

    The Trans & Queer Fall Mixer is UCSC’s annual welcome event for new and returning students. Join us to learn more about the Lionel Cantú Queer Resource Center and to […]

  • OLLI at UCSC Sunday Speaker Series

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

    Julie James, Founder Jewel Theatre, presents “Jewel Theater Company: Behind the Curtain” Hosted by OLLI at UCSC (Osher Lifelong Learning Institute). Public invited to join OLLI for a social hour and presentation. Julie James has been a member of Actors’ Equity for 28 years and has acted and directed in several plays. She holds a BA in Theatre Arts […]

  • 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
  • ECE 290 Seminar: Biohybrid Electronics Using Extracellular Electron Transfer

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

    Presenter: Ben Keitz, Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin Description: Qualities exhibited by living systems, including self-regulation, self-healing, morphology control, and environmental responsiveness, are highly attractive for sensing and computing applications. However, it has been challenging to develop robust and programmable interfaces between living systems and electronic components. Addressing this challenge, our lab employs […]

  • Successful Slug Workshop: Time Management (on Zoom!)

    Successful Slug Workshops
    Virtual Event

    Time Management Monday, October 20, 11:40 a.m.–12:25 p.m. Location: Zoom Learn the ways you can manage your time and avoid procrastination/burnout. 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 are open to all UCSC students and offer […]

  • CM Seminar – “Forty-Four Esolangs: The Art of Esoteric Code”

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

    Presented by: Daniel Temkin Description: Software art is widely accepted, but can programming languages themselves be art? The new book Forty-Four Esolangs makes this argument, collecting work by a single […]

  • AM Seminar: Sampling-Based Adaptive Rank Integrators for Multi-scale Kinetic Models.

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

    Presenter: Professor Jingmei Qiu, University of Delaware   Description: In this talk, we introduce a sampling-based semi-Lagrangian adaptive rank (SLAR) method, which leverages a cross approximation strategy—also known as CUR or pseudo-skeleton […]

  • Screening: Cracking the Code

    Landmark’s Del Mar Theatre

    Please join us for a public screening of “Cracking the Code: Phil Sharp and the Biotech Revolution” at the Landmark Theater on Monday, October 20.

  • CITRIS Aviation Prize Information Session

    Join us for this virtual info session on the 2025–26 CITRIS Aviation Prize, an exciting multi-campus student competition inviting teams to design innovative solutions for the future of air mobility across […]

  • Yoga as Healing Series

    Yoga as Healing Series
    Health Center (Student Health Center) 525 McLaughlin Drive, Santa Cruz, CA

    Yoga as Healing is a 7-week program at UC Santa Cruz for students who identify as survivors of interpersonal violence. Participants are welcome to join any of the sessions, and attendance at the orientation is not required.