• ECE Special Seminar: “Autonomous Electric Vehicles – Data Centers on the Wheel”

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

    Presented by: Kaushik Rajashekara, Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished University Professor @ University of Houston Description: “Autonomous electric vehicles (AEVs) are at the forefront of modern transportation, merging automation with sustainability to enhance efficiency and safety while reducing environmental impact. However, these vehicles face significant challenges in balancing the energy demands of autonomous compute […]

  • Mastoras, M. (BMEB) – Polishing genome assemblies and leveraging their improved quality to study centromere variation

    Physical Sciences Building Physical Sciences Building, Santa Cruz, CA
    Hybrid Event

    A complete and accurate genome reconstruction serves as the foundation for studying an organism’s biology and the mechanisms underlying disease. It is particularly critical for reference genomes, which provide a universal coordinate system for downstream genomic analysis. Errors or missing sequences in a reference genome create bias in all of the studies built on top […]

  • Malekos, E. (BMEB) – CRISPR screens of noncanonical ORFs uncover retroviral-derived immune regulators

    Biomedical Sciences Biomedical Sciences Building Red Hill Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    Ribosome profiling has revealed thousands of noncanonical translation events across mammalian genomes, yet functional characterization has overwhelmingly focused on proliferative fitness in cancer cell lines. Here, we present a comprehensive survey of noncanonical translation in the mouse immune system and its functional consequences in macrophages. By performing a unified Ribo-seq meta-analysis across 20 public mouse […]

  • ECE 290 Seminar: “Where The Semiconductor Industry Is Headed Over The Next 5, 10, 20 Years?”

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

    Presented by: Dr. Victor Zhirnov, Product Ideation Head @ Applied Materials Description: “Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are a primary engine of socioeconomic growth in the modern world. Electronic information processing and transmission are being further accelerated by the rapid advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The adoption of AI continues to expand at an unprecedented pace, […]

  • Statistics Seminar: Vecchia Approximated Bayesian Heteroskedastic Gaussian Processes

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

    Presenter: Parul Patil, Postdoctoral Researcher, UC Santa Cruz Description: Many computer simulations are stochastic and exhibit input dependent noise. In such situations, heteroskedastic Gaussian processes (hetGPs) make ideal surrogates as […]

  • Heath, H. (BMEB) – Linking Altered mRNA Processing to Translational Regulation in Lung Cancer

    Biomedical Sciences Biomedical Sciences Building Red Hill Road, Santa Cruz, CA
    Hybrid Event

    In lung cancer, recurrent alterations in RNA processing regulators reshape both the proteins genes encode and the sequences that regulate their production. Understanding how mRNA processing influences protein production requires resolving the coding and regulatory sequences present in individual mRNA isoforms. Transcription start site (TSS) choice, alternative splicing (AS) , and polyadenylation site (PAS) choice […]

  • BME 280B Seminar: Speaker Julian Lucas; and Speaker Theo Kell

    Physical Sciences Building Physical Sciences Building, Santa Cruz, CA

    Title of Talk 1: Enabling Population-Scale Analysis of Human Centromere Diversity Presenter 1: Julian Lucas, Graduate Student in Miga Lab, University of California, Santa Cruz Description: Centromeres are essential for […]

  • Optional Practical Training (OPT) Workshop

    Zoom

    Optional Practical Training (OPT) workshops are MANDATORY for all F-1 students who will apply for OPT, and you MUST have attended the OPT workshop within 9 months of applying for OPT. You […]

  • International Student Orientation Make-Up Session

    Virtual Event

    Greetings, New International Students! This session is designed for all new F-1 and J-1 international students that were not able to attend the in-person orientation. During this make-up session, you […]

  • Miriam Pawel – California Dreams

    Bookshop Santa Cruz

    Bookshop Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute welcome Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Miriam Pawel for a reading and signing of her new book California Dreams: The Making and Remaking of the […]

  • Slugs Campout

    Slug Start 2026-27
    Upper East Field

    5th Annual Slugs Campout Have you ever wanted to camp under the stars overnight after enjoying s’mores, hot chocolate, and smiles around a cozy campfire? UCSC students are invited to join Adventure Rec and the DSAS Center for Leadership and Involvement for the fifth annual Slugs Campout on Friday, Oct. 2, at the Upper East […]

  • Free Guided Tour of the UCSC Farm

    Free Guided Tour of the UCSC Farm
    UCSC Farm 152 Farm Rd, Santa Cruz, CA

    Take a free, guided tour of the 30-acre organic UCSC Farm. Visitors can enjoy touring the organically managed greenhouses, hand-worked garden beds, orchards, row crop fields, and children’s garden, while […]

  • ECE 290 Seminar: “Why Do Chips Get Hot? Electro-Thermal Co-Design for Next-Generation Transistors”

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

    Presented by: Young Suh Song, Knight-Hennessy PhD candidate @ Stanford University Description: “The rapid growth of information technology (IT) has led to remarkable progress in recent semiconductor technology. Transistors have become smaller so that more transistors can be packed into a chip, and today’s semiconductors even use technology that vertically stacks layers of transistors. Although this has […]

  • Make Your Resume Awesome!

    Career Success Student Lounge (125 Hahn) 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Does your resume need a little help? Are you unsure about where to start, or about how to make your resume absolutely fantastic? Join us for this 30-minute workshop to […]

  • CM Seminar: Speaker – Yung-Ju (Stanley) Chang “Building Intelligence Around Limited Human Attention: Our Research Trajectory Toward Attention-Aware Agentic System”

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

    Presenter: Yung-Ju (Stanley) Chang, Professor, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU) Description: Human attention has become an increasingly scarce resource in everyday digital life. People are constantly exposed to notifications, messages, news updates, social media content, and AI-generated information, all competing for limited attentional capacity. In this talk, I will share our research trajectory around […]

  • Environmental Studies Seminar Series | Exit Talk: Geospatial Optimization of California’s Organic Waste Diversion System: Transportation, Compliance, and Infrastructure Planning

    Interdisciplinary Sciences Building 7487 Red Hill Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    In person and via Zoom (Meeting ID: 978 5545 8946, Passcode: 454736).  If you are unable to stream the talk live and need to access a recorded version, please contact Stacy Philpott at sphilpot@ucsc.edu. A UC Santa Cruz email address is required to access the recording. Host: Elliott Campbell Speaker: Siyu Luo, UC Santa Cruz, […]