• Creative Interventions (CI) Series

    Creative Interventions (CI) Series

    Creative Interventions (CI) is a community colloquium in contemporary creativity and creative practices that addresses the interconnected work of artists, designers, activists, and knowledge workers—and the intrinsic and transformative capacity of that work to cultivate a just society. The CI Speaker Series raises questions of import to contemporary creative workers in media and technology: – How […]

    FREE and open to UCSC affiliates
  • Slugs Campout

    Upper East Field

    Adventure Rec warmly welcome UCSC students to join the 5th annual Campus Campout on the Upper East Field! Friday, September 26, 6:30pm – Saturday, September 27, 9:00am.

  • Fall Harvest Welcome

    UCSC Farm 152 Farm Rd, Santa Cruz, CA

    Join the American Indian Resource Center, People of Color Sustainability Collective, UCSC Agroecology, and the Sustainability Office for a day of fun at the Farm Center! This Fall Harvest Welcome will be all about community building, learning about flora/fauna indigenous to Santa Cruz County, Native storytelling, and will feature a land blessing.

  • Harvest Festival

    UCSC Farm 152 Farm Rd, Santa Cruz, CA

    Connect with community on the campus farm at the annual Harvest Festival!   On the Main Stage: 11:12pm–12:00pm: White Hawk Indian Council for Children 12:30–1:40pm: Sambada  2–3pm: Ancestree  Activities 11-3pm Apple pressing […]

    Free – $5
  • Festival of Monsters: Oh, the Horror!

    Bookshop Santa Cruz

    exploring the ways monsters and tropes of monstrosity pervade our culture.

    Registration Required; FREE and open to the public
  • Festival of Monsters: Artist Cole Lemke

    Atlantis Fantasyworld

    exploring the ways monsters and tropes of monstrosity pervade our culture.

    FREE and open to the public
  • Trans & Queer Fall Mixer

    Porter/Kresge Dining Hall 411 Porter-Kresge Rd, Santa Cruz, CA

    The Trans & Queer Fall Mixer is UCSC’s annual welcome event for new and returning students. Join us to learn more about the Lionel Cantú Queer Resource Center and to […]

  • OLLI at UCSC Sunday Speaker Series

    Colleges Nine and John R. Lewis College Multi-purpose Room 615 College Nine Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    Julie James, Founder Jewel Theatre, presents “Jewel Theater Company: Behind the Curtain” Hosted by OLLI at UCSC (Osher Lifelong Learning Institute). Public invited to join OLLI for a social hour and presentation. Julie James has been a member of Actors’ Equity for 28 years and has acted and directed in several plays. She holds a BA in Theatre Arts […]

  • Innovations in Health Care Virtual Conference

    💫 Transform Healthcare with Us! 🧬🏥 🌟 5-Day Virtual Summit 2025: “Innovation, Ethics & the Next Frontier in Healthcare” 🌟 🗓️ Oct 20–24 | 9–11AM PST 💻 100% FREE | Live Online Meet visionary leaders shaping the future of healthcare: ✨ Prof. Henry Greely  ✨ Dr. James Giordano ✨ Lisa Berkley, PhD ✨ Alice Rathjen […]

    Free
  • Innovations in Health Care Virtual Conference

    Innovations in Health Care Virtual Conference

    💫 Transform Healthcare with Us! 🧬🏥 🌟 5-Day Virtual Summit 2025: “Innovation, Ethics & the Next Frontier in Healthcare” 🌟 🗓️ Oct 20–24 | 9–11AM PST 💻 100% FREE | Live Online Meet visionary leaders shaping the future of healthcare: ✨ Prof. Henry Greely  ✨ Dr. James Giordano ✨ Lisa Berkley, PhD ✨ Alice Rathjen […]

    Free
  • ECE 290 Seminar: Biohybrid Electronics Using Extracellular Electron Transfer

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

    Presenter: Ben Keitz, Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin Description: Qualities exhibited by living systems, including self-regulation, self-healing, morphology control, and environmental responsiveness, are highly attractive for sensing and […]

  • Successful Slug Workshop: Time Management (on Zoom!)

    Successful Slug Workshops
    Virtual Event

    Time Management Monday, October 20, 11:40 a.m.–12:25 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 Mondays at 11:40 a.m. and Wednesdays at 2:05 p.m. These 45-minute workshops are open to all UCSC students and offer […]

  • CM Seminar – “Forty-Four Esolangs: The Art of Esoteric Code”

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

    Presented by: Daniel Temkin Description: Software art is widely accepted, but can programming languages themselves be art? The new book Forty-Four Esolangs makes this argument, collecting work by a single […]

  • AM Seminar: Sampling-Based Adaptive Rank Integrators for Multi-scale Kinetic Models.

    Jack Baskin Engineering Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA

    Presenter: Professor Jingmei Qiu, University of Delaware   Description: In this talk, we introduce a sampling-based semi-Lagrangian adaptive rank (SLAR) method, which leverages a cross approximation strategy—also known as CUR or pseudo-skeleton […]

  • Screening: Cracking the Code

    Landmark’s Del Mar Theatre

    Please join us for a public screening of “Cracking the Code: Phil Sharp and the Biotech Revolution” at the Landmark Theater on Monday, October 20.