The Mindful U: Finding Calm, Clarity + Connection in a Chaotic World With Jessica Sanam Hekmat Thursday, Sept. 30, 2025 | Noon PT Virtual via Zoom Hosted by the UCLA Alumni Association, open to all UC alumni This interactive session, led by career coach Jessica Sanam Hekmat, invites participants to pause and reset to cultivate […]
The World Café — food, tea, and conversations that matter. Every other Wednesday, 5–7pm, RCC Dining Hall. All students welcome, every college and major. Free with a meal plan, or pay at the door. This quarter: Sept 30 — Conversation Café: What conversations matter to you this year? Oct 14 — Activism Café: How can […]
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 chromosome segregation, yet their repetitive DNA has long been a blind spot in human genomics. Until recently, they were largely missing from reference genomes, and […]
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 […]
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 will meet Global Engagement staff and learn about campus resources to support your studies and success as a Banana Slug. Please join our mandatory Orientation […]
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 University of California—an epic story of one of the world’s elite public universities, its sweeping social impact, and hopeful lessons about endurance in troubled times. […]
Produce Pop-Up is a twice-weekly organic farmstand open to all members of the UC Santa Cruz community. The program is dedicated to increasing access to fresh, healthy, and affordable organic produce, with offerings sourced from the UCSC Farm and other local organic growers. Academic year hours and locations: Beginning Oct. 2 Wednesdays: 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. […]
Carlos Motta’s When Time Stands Still, the artist’s second solo show with the IAS, features new and recent installations, videos, and sculptures highlighting the artist’s preoccupation with the historical and aesthetic productions of […]
Organized in partnership with the Center for Art and Advocacy, located in Brooklyn, New York, Ni de Aquí, Ni de Allá (Not From Here, Not From There) by multidisciplinary artist Victor ‘Marka27’ Quiñonez features a wide range of artworks that issue a bold declaration of dual belonging, including altars, an elaborately immersive botanica, paintings referencing […]
Baroque meets folk music with flamenco dance at UCSC Music Center Recital Hall on 10/2/26.
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 learning about the history of the site and the basic concepts of organic farming and gardening. Perched on a meadow near the campus entrance, the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 learn about cutting-edge resume best practices, followed by an optional 30 minutes of “resume work time” where you can meet individually with a coach to […]
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 […]
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 […]
Presenter: Trisha Dawn, UC Santa Cruz Description: Spatial transcriptomics technologies enable measurement of gene expression with spatial context, providing opportunities to understand how gene regulatory networks (GRNs) vary across tissue regions. Studying spatial variation in GRNs is crucial for uncovering mechanisms governing heterogeneous cellular functions and gives rise to a challenging statistical problem: graph learning […]
New York City’s BlackBox Ensemble begins its official residency with the UCSC Music Department with a kick-off concert featuring Morton Feldman and emerging composers in the legacies of experimentalism and minimalism.
The Arboretum opens its gates to the community free of charge the first Tuesday of every month. Come enjoy our gardens and wildlife. Don’t forget to stop by Norrie’s, our wonderful gift shop and plant nursery (Open Tues-Sun 10 am-4 pm). Community Days are popular, please consider carpooling or using alternative transportation. Current Arboretum members […]
The Practical Activism Conference Planning Team offers University of California, Santa Cruz students a rewarding experience to gain community organizing skills, build professional development, and create lasting memories through team-building. Practical Activism is an annual, student-led social justice conference, and organizers are seeking passionate students to join the planning committee for the 24th annual event […]