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  • Beth Shapiro next to the skeleton of a mammoth, with the title "Sequence to Survival: Using Genomics to save biodiversity"

    Sequence to Survival: Using Genomics to Save Biodiversity

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

    A Free Public Symposium Friday, May 1, 2026 Merrill Cultural Center, UC Santa Cruz Main Campus Doors open at 12:30 PM | Program begins at 1:00 PM Registration is free […]

  • A brown-haired woman wearing a blue-and-green flannel and black shirt stands in front of a grassy background.

    BME80G Seminar – Katherine Bonini, “Rethinking Familial Risk in Genomic Medicine: Ethical Approaches to Cascade Screening”

    Jack Baskin Auditorium 191 Baskin Cir, Santa Cruz, CA

    Presenter: Katherine Bonini, Senior Genetic Counselor @ Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai   Description: It has long been argued that families are central to genomic medicine. Genomic risk, diagnosis, and management are rarely confined to a single individual, and separating patients’ interests from those of their relatives is often neither straightforward nor desirable. Despite this, […]

  • The campus mobile crisis team logo features a banana slug on the go, with a road and trees in the distance.

    Meet the Campus Mobile Crisis Team

    Porter College Quad

    The UC Santa Cruz Campus Mobile Crisis Team (CMCT) will be at the SHOP RAVE Ready Event at Porter College Quad on May 1 from 3–5 PM. Drop by to meet the CMCT team, learn more about the services they offer, and connect in a welcoming space. Enjoy some treats while you’re there and take […]

  • Percussionist Christopher Clarino—April in Santa Cruz

    April in Santa Cruz Festival of Creative Music 2026 (AiSC)
    Music Center Recital Hall 400 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    Join percussionist Christopher Clarino in a concert of revolutionary work that invites listeners of all kinds to rethink hearing itself. This concert features a wide range of pieces—some well known and others newly commissioned—that explore sound, language, and gesture through electronics, field recordings, text, and American Sign Language (ASL). Framed in dialogue with these premieres […]

    FREE and open to the public
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    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 […]

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    Spring Exhibitions at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences

    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 […]

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    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 […]

  • woman looking at framed images

    Spring Exhibitions at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences

    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 […]

  • film still

    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 […]

  • Two sammy slug illustrations sit down at a desk to have a chat. One is wearing a pink t-shirt and is holding a UCSC-themed water bottle. The other one in a blue shirt listens intently, with a plant in the background and a placard on the desk that says "CAPS". In the top left is "Let's Talk!" with trees that can be seen out of the window.

    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: 870 435 8865 Passcode: 957836 Facilitator: Niki Severson, LCSW (831) 459-2628 You Belong Here: The programs and services described here are open to all, consistent with […]

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

    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 […]

  • Photo of speaker, Denis Titov

    AM Seminar: Using Math and Experiments to Study the Control of Cell Metabolism

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

    Presenter: Denis Titov, Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley Description: Cells run thousands of chemical reactions simultaneously, and these reactions must be precisely controlled—like a thermostat that prevents overheating. When this control fails, diseases including diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and fatty liver disease result. One key control mechanism is allosteric regulation, where a small molecule binds […]

  • 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 […]

  • Slugs and Steins: Lectures from UC Santa Cruz

    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 […]

  • Two sammy slug illustrations sit down at a desk to have a chat. One is wearing a pink t-shirt and is holding a UCSC-themed water bottle. The other one in a blue shirt listens intently, with a plant in the background and a placard on the desk that says "CAPS". In the top left is "Let's Talk!" with trees that can be seen out of the window.

    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. Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 831 459 2572 Password: 2572 Facilitator: Erica Lopez, LMFT (831) 459-2572 You Belong Here: The programs and services described here are open to all, consistent with […]

  • Living Roots book cover

    Living Roots: The Promise of Perennial Foods Book Talk

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

    Join us for a conversation with co-editors Liz Carlisle and Aubrey Streit Krug and contributor Tim Crews about their new book Living Roots: The Promise of Perennial Foods. Following the conversation, we’ll enjoy a tasting of perennial treats, and copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing. Living Roots makes the case for putting […]