• Berry U-Pick at the UCSC Farm

    Berry U-Pick at the UCSC Farm
    UCSC Farm 152 Farm Rd, Santa Cruz, CA

    Come enjoy picking your own organic strawberries and/or blueberries at the campus farm! Our delicious, organic berries will be plentiful this spring and we hope you can come enjoy the bounty. When: U-picks will take place on Saturdays from 9am to 12pm while supplies last. Blueberries will be available approximately through June, and strawberries will […]

  • First Saturday Tour at the Arboretum

    First Saturday Tour at the Arboretum
    Arboretum 122 Arboretum Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    First Saturday Tours are a wonderful way to introduce yourself to the Arboretum or to deepen your knowledge of the Arboretum’s plant collections. Each tour is a little different depending on the time of year, the interests of the tour guide, and the people who join in. For example, you might learn about the birds […]

  • Spring Exhibitions at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences

    Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz, United States

    Visit the IAS, UCSC’s premier art galleries, for our spring exhibitions. On view April 10–August 16, 2026 are three diverse and interdisciplinary shows: Libia Posada: Everything is Going Right, the first US solo exhibition by the Colombia-based artist and medical doctor; Gina Athena Ulysse: A Redwoods Rasanblaj, a site-specific and immersive exploration of the Haitian […]

  • Visualizing Abolition Screening Series: Beyond Access

    Visualizing Abolition
    Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz, United States

    On view in the IAS Screening Room is a selection of short films curated by Visualizing Abolition Visiting Faculty Fellow Dr. Pooja Rangan. Prisons deny and censor the access of those trapped inside them—to information, to intimacy, to community, to meaningful work, to nourishment of all kinds, and perhaps most cruelly, to care. This program […]

  • Rules Are Not Neutral: Play As Sense-Making, Acts Of Resistance, And Imagining Otherwise

    Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery 11 Cowell Service Rd, Santa Cruz, CA

    This exhibition brings together a range of analog games – including board, card, role-playing, and other participatory works – that engage social and political realities in different ways. The works span widely circulated commercial games to independently produced projects, one-of-a-kind artworks by artists, faculty, alumni, and students, and materials drawn from UC Santa Cruz Special […]

    Free
  • Sister Warriors in Conversation: Expanding Communities of Care in CA Women’s Prisons

    Visualizing Abolition
    Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz, United States

    This panel discussion with Niki Martinez, Elizabeth Lozano, and Susan Bustamente of Sister Warriors Freedom Coalition will be moderated by Dr. Julissa O. Muñiz, UCLA.  Organized for Visualizing Abolition, the event will talk about the movement women and gender expansive folks who have been incarcerated are building to support each other, shift power, and lead systems and policy […]

  • Spring Exhibitions at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences

    Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz, United States

    Visit the IAS, UCSC’s premier art galleries, for our spring exhibitions. On view April 10–August 16, 2026 are three diverse and interdisciplinary shows: Libia Posada: Everything is Going Right, the first US solo exhibition by the Colombia-based artist and medical doctor; Gina Athena Ulysse: A Redwoods Rasanblaj, a site-specific and immersive exploration of the Haitian […]

  • Visualizing Abolition Screening Series: Beyond Access

    Visualizing Abolition
    Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz, United States

    On view in the IAS Screening Room is a selection of short films curated by Visualizing Abolition Visiting Faculty Fellow Dr. Pooja Rangan. Prisons deny and censor the access of those trapped inside them—to information, to intimacy, to community, to meaningful work, to nourishment of all kinds, and perhaps most cruelly, to care. This program […]

  • Kuumbwa Jazz Presents – Gregorio Uribe

    Kuumbwa Jazz Center 320-2 Cedar St, Santa Cruz, United States

    “Colombian artist Gregorio Uribe, whose blend of contemporary cumbia and timeless charisma has marked him as an artist to watch.” – Billboard Uribe was recognized by the Colombian government as one of “The 100 Most Successful Colombians Abroad”, and has received honors from the city of Boston and the state of Massachusetts for his contribution […]

  • ECE 290 Seminar: Speaker – Dr. Jaeyoung Lim “Autonomous Information Gathering using Long Endurance Aerial Vehicles”

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

    Presenter: Jaeyoung Lim, Postdoctoral Scholar at the Agile Robotics and Perception Lab at the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, University of California, Berkeley Description: Monitoring large-scale environments is essential for natural hazard management, environmental process observation, and search and rescue operations. Yes, meaningful coverage of the target environment demands vast infrastructure and dense sensor […]

  • Rules Are Not Neutral: Play As Sense-Making, Acts Of Resistance, And Imagining Otherwise

    Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery 11 Cowell Service Rd, Santa Cruz, CA

    This exhibition brings together a range of analog games – including board, card, role-playing, and other participatory works – that engage social and political realities in different ways. The works span widely circulated commercial games to independently produced projects, one-of-a-kind artworks by artists, faculty, alumni, and students, and materials drawn from UC Santa Cruz Special […]

    Free
  • Let’s Talk

    Virtual Event

    Need to talk? We’re here to listen! Drop in for a confidential chat with a professional counselor who can provide support, advice and information. Zoom Meeting Link Meeting ID: 870 […]

  • Statistics Seminar: Advancing Statistical Rigor in Single-Cell and Spatial Omics Using In Silico Control Data

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

    Presenter: Guan’ao Yan, Assistant Professor, Michigan State University Description: Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics technologies now let us map cellular diversity and tissue organization at high resolution, but the computational methods built to analyze these data are difficult to evaluate in a rigorous, reproducible way. Two key barriers are the lack of realistic synthetic data with […]

  • AM Seminar: Engineering the Earth’s Climate

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

    Presenter: Dr. Pulkit Dubey, Postdoc, UC Santa Cruz Description: Neural climate emulators such as NeuralGCM and LUCIE offer efficient, differentiable alternatives to General Circulation Models (GCMs), producing climate predictions at a fraction of the cost. While work to date has focused largely on predictive accuracy, we leverage differentiability to study control of long-horizon climatological targets. […]

  • Analyzing AI Security and Vulnerabilities in the Current Landscape

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

    Interested in careers in AI and cybersecurity? Then don’t miss this highly informative workshop covering today’s most relevant trends in this space.   In this 2-part session, you’ll get expert insight from security leaders at Microsoft. Here’s a breakdown of each part:   When AI Breaks, Be the One Who Notices Speaker: Raji Vanninathan  Discover how […]

  • Launch of the new Shadow Indigenous Worlds (SIW) initiative

    Communications Building 7487 Red Hill Road, Santa Cruz, CA
    Hybrid Event

    Shadow Indigenous Worlds (SIW) is a global initiative that highlights Indigenous worldviews of inquiry. By focusing on researchers, practitioners, and artists at work (in the field, studio, and classroom), it invites the audience to participate and reflect on the meaning of knowledge, theory, pedagogy, and social change. SIW is a student-focused program and highlights the contributions […]

  • Launch of the new Shadow Indigenous Worlds (SIW) initiative

    Communications Building 7487 Red Hill Road, Santa Cruz, CA
    Hybrid Event

    Shadow Indigenous Worlds (SIW) is a global initiative that highlights Indigenous worldviews of inquiry. By focusing on researchers, practitioners, and artists at work (in the field, studio, and classroom), it invites the audience to participate and reflect on the meaning of knowledge, theory, pedagogy, and social change. SIW is a student-focused program and highlights the contributions […]

  • May Slugs and Steins with Professor Soraya Murray

    Virtual Event

    TECHNOTHRILLER: Film and the American Imagination In this presentation, visual culture scholar Soraya Murray (Film + Digital Media Department, UCSC) shares her new book, TECHNOTHRILLER: Film and the American Imagination (MIT, Feb 2026). In TECHNOTHRILLER, Soraya Murray reveals how popular American films after the 1960s, in which technology assumes a central role—mainly biotech, military, and computational—channel our cultural […]

  • Rules Are Not Neutral: Play As Sense-Making, Acts Of Resistance, And Imagining Otherwise

    Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery 11 Cowell Service Rd, Santa Cruz, CA

    This exhibition brings together a range of analog games – including board, card, role-playing, and other participatory works – that engage social and political realities in different ways. The works span widely circulated commercial games to independently produced projects, one-of-a-kind artworks by artists, faculty, alumni, and students, and materials drawn from UC Santa Cruz Special […]

    Free