• Successful Slug Workshops

    Successful Slug Workshop: Time Management (Zoom)

    Virtual Event

    Time Management Wednesday, January 21, 2:45–3:30 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 Tuesdays at noon and Wednesdays at 2:45 p.m. These 45-minute workshops are open to all UCSC students and offer tools and strategies […]

  • 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. […]

  • Gregory O’ Malley – The Escapes of David George

    Bookshop Santa Cruz

    Bookshop welcomes prize-winning historian and UC Santa Cruz professor Gregory O’Malley for a discussion about his new book The Escapes of David George: An Odyssey of Slavery, Freedom, and the American Revolution—the dramatic story of a Black man’s relentless search for freedom in Revolutionary America. This book tells the story of David George who in […]

  • George Saunders – Vigil

    Rio Theater 1205 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz, United States

    Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes George Saunders, recipient of the 2025 National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, for a discussion about his wise, playful, electric novel Vigil, which takes place at the bedside of an oil company CEO in the twilight hours of his life as he is ferried from this world […]

  • Collaborative Communications Workshop with Aimee Ryan

    Arboretum 122 Arboretum Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    Collaborative Communication Workshop Series O.A.B.E.’s Winter 2026 Professional Development  Baskin Engineering and The Office of Access, Belonging, and Equity invite you to join us for a series of in-person workshops over two afternoons this winter quarter to come together as a community of workers and develop our skills in collaborative communication, conflict navigation, and empathic […]

  • Marion Nestle – Sustainable Food in the Trump Era

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

    What is the state of sustainable food now, what are the forces affecting food choice, and what can we do about it? Join us for this year’s Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture featuring Marion Nestle — Mark Bittman’s “guiding light” on nutrition and Alice Waters’ “tireless warrior for public health” — for a bracing look […]

  • Of Body and Soul: Politics and Eschatology in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean

    UC Santa Cruz campus 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    This seminar explores how pre-modern debates over body and soulshaped political and eschatological thought in the Mediterranean. Each panel brings Jewish, Christian, and Islamic voices into dialogue, with Dante Alighieri’s oeuvre as a recurring point of comparison. Our aim is to situate questions of embodiment, psychology, soteriology, and collective destiny in light of their historical […]

  • Grad Council Event: Future of Graduate Education at UCSC

    University Center University Center, Santa Cruz, CA

    Graduate Council will be holding a winter 2026 graduate director event seeking input on the future of UC Santa Cruz graduate programs. When: February 20, 2026 Where: University Center Alumni […]

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