• Operation Unplug! Pledge to Leave Campus Sustainability this Winter Break

    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, apartment, or office, please unplug any fridges or minifridges, computers and/or monitors, power strips, and all other energy intensive appliances or equipment! Take the pledge and/or upload […]

  • Cardiff Open House

    Cardiff House 114 Carriage House Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    Cardiff Open House is an opportunity for campus partners and the greater community to visit the American Indian Resource Center's new shared location with the Women's Center at the Cardiff House near the base of campus. Stay connected with our centers and the resources we offer by visiting with us & touring our space.

  • Research Lunch & Learn: Research Security

    Virtual Event

    Join us on January 14, 2026, 12-1 p.m., for an overview of evolving research security expectations and how they affect proposal development, award management, and ongoing project compliance. Led by Jeffrey Weekley, Director of Research IT, Nutan Mellegers, OSP Associate Director, and Csilla Csaplár, AVC Research, this virtual session will discuss the Research Security Training […]

  • Human Computer Interaction MS Virtual Info Session

    Join us January 14 from 7 – 8 PM for our Virtual Information Session. Learn more about our program, based at the UCSC Silicon Valley Campus, where you can earn your HCI MS in 15 months. We offer: Application fee waivers for UCSC students and alumni Full and partial scholarships Dedicated careers services support Internship […]

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  • Workplace Mental Health Training for Supervisors and Managers

    The Office of Risk Services has partnered with OHSU’s Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Services to provide mental health support training to UCSC supervisors and managers. This evidence based program teaches leaders: To identify employee mental health struggles Appropriate ways to respond to employee warning signs Practical strategies to reduce employee stress Employees whose managers […]

  • Intro to Fruit Trees

    Hay Barn 94 Ranch View Road, Santa Cruz, CA, United States +1 more

    This workshop will focus on fruit tree care and management, especially for those who are looking to establish and/or care for their fruit trees using organic methods. Although we will be demonstrating on a home garden scale, the techniques and methods are applicable at multiple scales—the basics are the same. This hands-on workshop will cover: […]

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  • How Long is Long Enough: Screening and Conversation

    Santa Cruz Barrios Unidos 1817 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz, United States

    Join us for a screening of How Long is Long Enough: The Excessive Sentencing of Quntos & Layla, a short documentary created by Natalie Decena, Sarina Bozorgnia, Veler Brown, and Aiden Olivier from UC Santa Cruz with support from Michael Ademaro from Georgetown Law School as part of the Making an Exoneree initiative. Quntos Wilson and […]

  • Info Session: Global Seminar Eco-Entrepreneurship in the Netherlands

    Learn more at our upcoming Information Session: Tuesday, January 20th, 2026 at 12:00-1:00 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.  Quick […]

  • Nurturing Difference – Parenting and Disability in a Careless Age

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

    JOIN US as we celebrate two distinguished members of our UCSC community and their new books. We’ll be discussing Danilyn Rutherford’s Beautiful Mystery: Living in a Wordless World (Duke University […]

  • AI Business Practices Info Session

    Transform your workplace with practical AI skills. In an era of rapid digital change, non‑technical professionals need to know how to deploy AI tools and strategies efficiently—without needing to code. This specialization shows how you can streamline tasks like document and presentation creation, reporting, and project coordination using generative AI, intelligent agents, and automation. Speaker […]

  • Kraw Lecture: Sensing the Unseen: How Drones and Ground Sensors Reveal the Hidden Air Quality Impact

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

    How can flying robots help us track the air we breathe and the pollutants we can’t see? In this talk, Assistant Professor Javier González-Rocha  will share how his team uses drones to measure wind patterns and detect airborne pollutants in hard-to-reach places.. These systems help us understand how toxic pollutants and climate emissions move through […]

  • SC County Spelling Bee 2026

    The Santa Cruz County Office of Education coordinates the Elementary (grades 4-6) and Junior High (grades 7-9) County Spelling Bee Competition.

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  • Climate Action

    Like Water: A Participatory Walk with Artist A. Laurie Palmer and Special Guests

    Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz, United States

    Inspired by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Bruce Lee, and the Hong Kong protestors, join artist A. Laurie Palmer and  in collaboration with Cid Pearlman and Ilia Dolgov to practice moving together as a body of water, walking west from the IAS along Delaware Avenue to the ocean. On the way we will imagine and explore how […]

  • College Nights

    College Night: Back to the Past

    College Nine and John R. Lewis Dining Hall

    College Nine and John R. Lewis College, in collaboration with UCSC Dining, present “Back to the Past” an exploration of activism through the decades. Join us Tuesday, January 27 from 5–8 p.m. at the College Nine/John R. Lewis Dining Hall for a night of activities, fun, community, and a special themed menu. Standard dining hall […]

  • 42nd Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Convocation

    Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium 307 Church St., Santa Cruz, CA

    This annual convocation celebrates the life and dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with presentations about equality, freedom, justice, and opportunity. This year we welcome legendary reggae percussionist, Larry McDonald.

  • The Sheikh’s Jews: Muslim-Jewish Relations in Interwar Algeria

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

    The Center for Jewish Studies presents, The Helen Diller Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies. Until the middle of the twentieth century, Algeria hosted an array of Jewish communities—some deeply-rooted, others more recently settled—that played important roles in North African society. French colonial rule, however, brought changes that profoundly reshaped Jews’ relationship to their Muslim neighbors. […]

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