• New Play Festival

    New Play Festival
    Second Stage Second Stage, Santa Cruz, CA

    New Play Festival is an annual student-run showcase of experimental, short stage readings at Theater Arts Second Stage at UC Santa Cruz.

    Free – $20
  • Volunteer Workday at the UCSC Farm

    UCSC Farm 152 Farm Rd, Santa Cruz, CA

    Please join us for a day of harvesting, cleaning and storing dahlia tubers for the winter. After an incredible season of blooms, we will have cut back and lifted our dahlias, but they still need a bit of care and processing to be ready for storage until they are planted again in the spring. Participants […]

  • International Education Week

    International Education Week (IEW) is an opportunity to celebrate the benefits of international education and exchange worldwide. This joint initiative of the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education is part of our efforts to promote programs that prepare Americans for a global environment and attract future leaders from abroad to study, […]

  • ECE 290 Seminar: “From Stochastic Planning to Safe and Resilient Autonomy: Learning and Control for Robotic Systems”

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

    Presented by: Francesco Trotti, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow @ University of Bologna, Italy Description: “Developing autonomous robotic systems capable of operating reliably in uncertain and dynamic environments requires the integration of planning, learning, and control while addressing fundamental challenges related to safety, robustness, and computational efficiency. This talk will present a research journey from stochastic […]

  • 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 […]

  • Fall Slow Seminar: The Range of the River by Iftekhar Iqbal

    Humanities 1 Building 257 Cowell-Stevenson Road, Santa Cruz, CA, United States +1 more

    UCSC’s Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions (SEACoast) and the Center for South Asian Studies invite you to join us for a Slow Seminar to discuss Iftekhar Iqbal’s The Range […]

    Free
  • Humanities Grad School 101

    Humanities 1 Building 257 Cowell-Stevenson Road, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
    Hybrid Event

    Curious about graduate school in the humanities? Join this event to learn important considerations and what to look for in a program.

  • Global Cafe: International Education Week

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

    Join Global Engagement for our monthly Global Cafe. Come stop by the International Lounge in Classroom Unit 101 for coffee, tea, refreshments, and community. This event is open to all students, staff, faculty, and community members. Each monthly cafe is held on the following Wednesdays from 14:00 – 16:00: October 21 November 18 December 2 […]

  • Slugs at Sundown – Negotiating for Mutual Gains

    3175 Bowers Avenue Santa Clara, CA 95054 3175 Bowers Avenue, Santa Clara, CA, United States

    Whether you are aiming to land a new job, advocate for a promotion, navigate a complex workplace dynamic, or secure resources for your latest project, negotiation is a universal skill essential for every stage of your career. Join fellow Banana Slug Scott McCreary for an interactive session designed for early and mid-career professionals. While Scott’s […]

    Free
  • Drop-in Career Success Peer Coaching Across Campus – McHenry

    McHenry Library 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, CA

    Stop by the Career Success Drop-ins and get professional advice from our Peer Coaches – now available across campus! 📝 Peers will rotate between McHenry and the Science & Engineering Library courtyards from Week 4 through Week 10 this quarter. Drop in for resume and cover letter support, job searching advice, grad school prep, and […]

  • Lee Herrick – Morton Marcus Poetry Reading

    Cultural Center – Merrill College 641 Merrill Rd, Santa Cruz, United States

    The Humanities Institute is proud to present The Seventeenth Annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading featuring California Poet Laureate, Lee Herrick. Lee Herrick is the first California Poet Laureateto be reappointed to a second term. He is the author of four books, most recently In Praise of Late Wonder: New and Selected Poems (2024). He co-edited The World I […]

  • Vigil in honor of Trans Day of Remembrance and Resistance

    London Nelson Community Center 301 Center St., Santa Cruz, United States

    Trans Day of Remembrance Vigil 2026: Remember Me As… An evening exploring memory, legacy, and our shared LGBTQ+ lineage to honor trans, 2 Spirit, non-binary, and gender expansive lives lost […]

  • Bondar, G. (AM) – Geometric and Graph Structured Optimal Transport for Learning and Control

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

    We motivate, formulate, and solve several structured optimal transportation (OT) problems for learning and control. The field of OT had its inception in 1781, when Gaspard Monge sought the optimal map to transport mass from a given initial distribution to a desired terminal distribution. Both OT and its entropy-regularized variant, the Schrödinger bridge problem (SBP), […]

  • Statistics Seminar: Randomization Posteriors and Generalized Bayesian Inference

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

    Presenter: Edric Tam, Warren Alpert Fellow in AI and Computational Biology, Department of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University Description: A longstanding question in Bayesian analysis concerns the role of randomization. […]

  • Thanksgiving Dinner – Host an International Student

    Every year, International Student Services and Programming invites faculty and staff to host international students for Thanksgiving dinner. This wonderful opportunity allows our UCSC faculty and staff community to share traditions and help our international students experience the warmth and diversity of this American holiday. How it Works Matching: We pair international students with UCSC staff […]

  • Barn Dance at the Hay Barn

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

    The UCSC Celtic Music Ensemble performs live during a beginner-friendly, gender-neutral barn dance—partners not required—at the UCSC Cowell Ranch Hay Barn.

    Free
  • Global Cafe: Holiday Treats

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

    Join Global Engagement for our monthly Global Cafe. Come stop by the International Lounge in Classroom Unit 101 for coffee, tea, refreshments, and community. This event is open to all students, staff, faculty, and community members. Each monthly cafe is held on the following Wednesdays from 14:00 – 16:00: October 21 November 18 December 2 […]