• Snow Wonder

    Join this 2025 UC Snow Wonder Challenge! Picture yourself having a healthier, happier holiday season. Form teams with your colleagues and motivate each other and celebrate your healthy habit accomplishments to end the year on a healthy high note and head into 2026 feeling your best!

  • Field School Workshop: Why and how to get your first fieldwork exposure

    Social Sciences 1 Social Sciences 1, Santa Cruz, CA

    This workshop is designed for students considering field school in archaeology, biological anthropology, paleoanthropology or primatology. Faculty and student resource persons will speak to topics such as what field school is like, assessing alignment with student goals, picking the right school, and how to apply. Refreshments (pizza) will be served.

  • 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
  • Humanities at Work: Informational Interviewing

    Virtual Event

    Are you curious about your career options as a humanities student? Wondering how the professionals around you got to where they are? Join this interactive workshop to learn about informational […]

  • Open House: Oakes Collaborations

    Explore Our New Collaborative Spaces in Oakes College! We’re excited to welcome you to the newly expanded spaces in the Oakes Academic Building, now home to a vibrant community of […]

    Free
  • College Nights

    College Night: Arts

    Porter College, in collaboration with UCSC Dining, present an Arts themed College Night. Join us Thursday, November 13, from 5–7 p.m. at the Porter/Kresge 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 invited. Please note: The dining […]

  • Jorquera, Z. (CSE) – Quantum Entanglement Bounds and the Approximation Algorithms That Use Them

    Hybrid Event

    One of the central challenges in quantum computing is finding or approximating the ground-state energy of a local Hamiltonian, a quantum analogue of classical constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs). Among these, the Quantum Max-Cut problem serves as a canonical example, paralleling the classical Max-Cut problem. Despite its foundational importance in both theoretical computer science and condensed […]

  • Small Steps, Big Impact: Starting Your Fitness Journey Workshop

    Faculty & Staff Health and Well-being Program
    This beginner-friendly session will break down the fundamentals of fitness, including goal setting, different types of exercise, and how to build a routine that fits movement into your life.

  • GradWiC Womxn’s Lunch – Lunch & Learn

    E2-599

    Join Graduate Womxn in Computing (GradWiC) for our Womxn’s Luncheon this Thursday, from 1-2 pm in E2-599. This week, we are having a Lunch & Learn session featuring Kat Kosolapova […]

  • Opera Scenes: Musical Settings of the Orpheus Myth by Monteverdi, Gluck, and Anaïs Mitchell

    Music Center Recital Hall 400 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    Members of the UCSC Opera Workshop class present scenes from opera and musical theater with Greek themes. Luke Shepherd accompanies on piano. — ADMISSION – Open seating/admission; no tickets or registration required. – FREE and open to the public. — PARKING – Parking by permit or ParkMobile. – Arts Lot #126 is the closest parking […]

    FREE and open to the public.
  • Job search strategies in a competitive market

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

    Join Dean PK Agarwal for this free, in-person and online event as he provides actionable tips on navigating today’s dynamic job market — from leveraging LinkedIn and digital portfolios to […]

  • Ellen Bass: Morton Marcus Poetry Reading

    Merrill Cultural Center 200 McLaughlin Dr, Santa Cruz, CA

    Join us for the 15th annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading, featuring honored guest Ellen Bass. Poet Gary Young will host the program, and the evening will include an announcement of […]

  • Indigethanx 2025: Honoring the Elders Dinner

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

    Indigethanx is an American Indian Resource Center annual event, and our alternative to Thanksgiving dinner. We host dinner with traditional Native foods, and invite guest speakers. This year we are […]

Last modified: Dec 19, 2025