• Connect To Your Roots: BIPOC Herbalism

    UCSC Farm 152 Farm Rd, Santa Cruz, CA

    The People of Color Sustainability Collective invites you to Connect To Your Roots! We will be sharing and connecting with generational knowledge and empowering BIPOC to take control of their own food systems, particularly medicinal herbs, through a variety of educational hands-on activities. We aim for this event to enhance BIPOC visibility on campus, and […]

  • “Cut/Woven/Spoken” Exhibition: Works by UCSC alumna Pilar Agüero-Esparza

    Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery Baskin Service Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    Exhibition of artworks by UC Santa Cruz Art Department alumna Pilar Agüero-Esparza. — ADMISSION – FREE and open to the public – Open admission from noon–5:00 p.m. – The gallery is closed on Mondays — PARKING – Lot 124 & 125 are the closest parking lots to the event. – Parking is by permit or […]

    FREE and open to the public
  • ECE Seminar: Advanced Packaging as the Engine of the AI Systems Era

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

    Presenter: Tolga Acikalin, System and Package Architect, Lumilens Description: The rapid rise of artificial intelligence and machine learning—most notably recent breakthroughs in large language models—is reshaping the trajectory of the semiconductor industry and ushering in a new era of system innovation. As performance scaling at the device level slows, heterogeneous integration (HI) has emerged as […]

  • Statistics Seminar: Mathematical Foundations for Machine Learning from a Nonlinear Time Series Perspective

    Engineering 2, 599
    Virtual Event

    Presenter: Jiaqi Li, William H. Kruskal Instructor, University of Chicago Description:Modern machine learning (ML) algorithms achieve remarkable empirical success, yet providing rigorous statistical guarantees remains a major challenge, particularly in distributional theory and online inference methods. In this talk, we will introduce a novel framework to provide mathematical foundations for ML by bringing powerful tools […]

  • AM Seminar: Are Graph Learning Methods Actually Learning?

    Baskin Engineering, 372

    Presenter: Seshadhri Comandur, Professor of Computer Science, UCSC Description: There has been a lot of literature on graph machine learning over the past few years, and a bewildering array of […]

  • Grad Slam Divisional Semi-Finals

    Graduate Student Commons 420 Hagar Drive, Santa Cruz, CA

    What is Grad Slam? Grad Slam is a communication contest hosted by the UC Santa Cruz Graduate Division that is open to all graduate students (except those who have won […]

    Free
  • 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 […]

  • Community Day: Free Admission at the Arboretum

    Arboretum 122 Arboretum Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    The first Tuesday of each month, the Arboretum is open without charge to visitors. See dates and times UC Santa Cruz Arboretum & Botanic Garden is open. NOTE: Due to limited parking at the Arboretum and the popularity of Community Day, we greatly encourage visitors to carpool, bike, walk or use public transportation as much […]

  • Advance with Northeastern: Graduate Opportunities

    Virtual Event

    Join the Northeastern University Bay Area recruiters for an essential information session on graduate programs offered here in the Bay Area. Our master’s degree programs in computing, engineering, public policy, game design and more professional studies are designed to fit your professional aspirations and schedule, helping you advance or change your career trajectory.

  • Going Global Sessions

    Going Global Sessions

    Classroom Unit Classroom Unit, Santa Cruz, CA, Select a Country:

    Going Global Sessions are opportunities for students interested in pursuing global learning experiences (study abroad or away) to drop in and learn about the opportunities available to them at UC Santa Cruz. Sessions provide an overview of available programs, key application timelines, and what to expect throughout the process. Students will also receive practical planning […]

  • 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 […]

  • Drop-In Figure Drawing

    Drop-In Figure Drawing

    Elena Baskin Visual Arts Center Baskin Service Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    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 […]

    FREE and open to the public.
  • Mentors Needed: Dickens Day of Writing

    Museum of Art & History 705 Front St, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    The Dickens Project is seeking volunteer writing mentors for our to support Santa Cruz-area high school juniors and seniors during a one-day writing retreat and competition at the Museum of […]

    Free
  • Statistics Seminar: Statistical Inference for Multi-Modality Data in the AI Era

    Engineering 2, 599
    Hybrid Event

    Presenter: Qi Xu, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Statistics & Data Science, Carnegie Mellon University Description: Multi-modality data are increasingly common across science medicine and technology, such as imaging, text, sensors, and genomics. These modalities are often high dimensional or unstructured and naturally exhibit blockwise (nonmonotone) missingness where different samples observe different subsets of modalities. Such […]

  • Two Spirit Luncheon

    College Nine and John R. Lewis Dining Hall

    The American Indian Resource Center and Lionel Cantú Queer Center present: Two Spirit Luncheon! Join us on February 4th, 2026  from 12:00PM to 2:00PM at the Alumni Room in College 9 / John R. Lewis for a presentation and interactive luncheon celebrating, affirming, and raising awareness about Two Spirit identities. Lunch will be served – […]

Last modified: Jan 28, 2026