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!
Take part in the campus-wide holiday drive by donating Slug Points, Banana Bucks, or Flexi Dollars to the Second Harvest Food Bank November 17 – December 11. 100% of your gift will provide food to Santa Cruz County residents. WAYS TO DONATE Students can donate up to 50 Slug Points, Banana Bucks, or Flexi Dollars […]
UCSC Energy Management and the Sustainability Office are leading the first annual “Operation Unplug” campaign to conserve energy (and reduce greenhouse gas emissions) during winter break. Before leaving your residence hall, […]
Most optimization problems face the challenge of computing an optimum solution requiring superpolynomial time. In particular, they are classified as NP-hard problems that have no polynomial-time algorithm to date. Instead, […]
Presenter: Joey Sankman, Analog/Power Designer, Analog Devices Description: With the rising interest in edge computing, and the addition of AI/ML functionality, nanopower circuits are in great demand to reduce the quiescent power consumption of remote sensors. In this tutorial, fundamental building blocks for nanopower circuits will be covered, including startup-less low-voltage references, low-frequency clocks, and […]
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 […]
Boundaries & Communication: International Grad Student Circle Date: Monday, November 24 Time: 1–3 p.m. Location: Graduate Student Commons (above Cafe Iveta in Quarry Plaza) Description: Join CARE, International Student Services & Programs, and the Grad Student Commons for lunch and conversation about boundaries, culture, and healthy professional relationships. This event centers international graduate students and is […]
Presenter: Professor Andy Moore, UCSC Ocean Sciences Description: Linear inverse models have enjoyed considerable popularity in the geosciences, particularly in the arena of climate research and climate prediction, for several decades as a straightforward approach to dimension reduction and streamlining computational efficiency. The most common approach is to truncate the system by retaining the leading […]
Questions about Winter enrollment? Drop into the Peer Advisors’ Zoom to get some Minty Cool advise!
Each group is open to any interested faculty (including Senate faculty, lecturers, and other faculty titles), with a goal of engaging faculty across ranks and disciplines, to improve faculty retention and success. Groups meet roughly once per month and meetings vary between in-person, remote, and hybrid. Lunch is provided to groups meeting in person.
Macroeconomics and International Finance Seminar: Helen Popper
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.
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 […]
UCSC Orchestra
Grab a free cup of locally owned coffee and chat with Merrill College Provost Aims! Most Wednesdays through the quarter from 9–11 a.m.
Meet us for coffee, tea, breakfast snacks and good conversation outside the Merrill College Office, across from the mailroom.
This quarter, make time for you, for reflection, and for community!
Staying on campus for fall break? Join us for the annual Harvest Meal! Brought to you by Dining Services and the Dean of Students Office. Thursday, November 27 1–4 p.m. College Nine/John R. Lewis Dining Hall Registration required by Monday, November 24. REGISTER HERE All students, faculty, staff, and their guests are invited to attend. […]
The Cantu Queer Center is excited to host our 4th annual Rainbowsgiving, a community meal for folks who would like an alternative and inclusive gathering for Thanksgiving / 4th Thursday in November. Our hope is to provide a space for folks to connect with others in an affirming, celebratory gathering in which they can be who […]
Learn how to create beautiful, long-lasting dried flower holiday wreaths with instructor Beth Benjamin. She will demonstrate the mechanics of putting everything together and will have a couple examples to guide your inspiration. Personal artistic style is highly encouraged! You’ll be able to choose from a wide selection of dried materials from the UCSC Farm […]
Learn more at our upcoming Information Session: Monday, December 1, 2025 at 11:00 am-12:00 pm via Zoom. Register Here Earn 10 units on a summer program on the Global Seminar Eco-Entrepreneurship in the Netherlands in Amsterdam this summer. This program is taught by Nada Miljkovic, Entrepreneurship Instructor and Program Manager for UCSC’s Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurial Development. […]