AI and Security 101
Join us for an informative conversation with Neta Haiby, Head of Product | AI Security at Microsoft! Artificial Intelligence is transforming both cyber defense and cyber offense. It creates unique […]
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Expanding the Narrative
Join AA/PIRC and USS on Tuesday, February 24th from 6:30-8pm at Terry Freitas Commons for a teach-in and art build exploring how different Asian communities are affected by U.S. immigration policies. We will talk about the diversity of Asian experiences with immigration, how fictions like the “model minority myth” and “perfect immigrant narrative” harm Asian […]
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Liu, C. (CSE) – Enabling LLM Unlearning at Inference Time by Decomposing Detection and Intervention
Virtual EventMachine unlearning addresses the “right to be forgotten” under GDPR and enables privacy, copyright, and safety compliance in large language models. Training-based unlearning can remove targeted behavior on benchmarks, but it scales poorly, can degrade utility, and can fail under adversarial prompting that recovers supposedly forgotten content. This prospectus proposes inference-time behavioral unlearning: rather than […]
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CSE Colloquium: Agile and evolvable software construction in the era of rapidly evolving hardware accelerator designs
Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAPresenter Charith Mendis, Siebel School of Computing and Data Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Abstract Modern AI workloads have become exceedingly abundant and important in the current computing landscape. As a result, there have been numerous software and hardware innovations aimed at accelerating these workloads. However, we observe a subtle disconnect between the software […]
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February 25, 2026 | Works-in-Progress with Geoffrey Bowker
On Wednesday, February 25, 2026 at 3:00PM in Humanities 1, Room 210, join SJRC scholars on the death of infrastructure, AI, and underwater network cables and his collaborative comic book on Actor Network Theory.
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Campus Conversations on Access: Insights from Disability Studies — Teaching Week 2026
Virtual EventThis panel explores ways to foster a classroom culture of inclusivity across the divisions by addressing questions of accessibility, grounded in both Disabilities Studies and in classroom experience. RSVP here
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Exploring Research Pathways at Baskin Engineering
Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CACurious how being part of a research lab can supercharge your experience as a Baskin Engineer? Join us for this informative event to learn about opportunities to solve open-ended problems, build deeper technical skills, and learn how to think like an engineer. We’ll kick things off with a quick overview of the kinds of research […]
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Course Reading Solutions and Challenges: A Half-Day Symposium — Teaching Week 2026
McHenry Library 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, CAJoin us for a half-day symposium dedicated to course readings. Hear from UCSC faculty who re-envisioned the role of readings in their courses in order to improve student success and […]
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BME 280B Seminar: The evolution of structural variation across vertebrate genomes
Physical Sciences Building Physical Sciences Building, Santa Cruz, CAPresenter: Peter Sudmant, Assistant Professor of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley Description: Structural variants (SVs) contribute substantially to genetic variation and play vital roles in adaptation and disease. However, SVs are poorly captured by short read sequencing and thus are understudied, particularly in non-model organisms. Here, taking advantage of recently generated haplotype-resolved genome assemblies […]
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Venezuela: Contradictions of Regime Change Without a Change of Regime, A Discussion with Dr. Gabriel Hetland
Stevenson Event Center Stevenson Service Road, Santa Cruz, CA*UPDATE!* New date! Now on Thursday, February 26th, 12- 1:30pm at the Stevenson Event Center. Following the January 3 US attack and kidnapping of its president, Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela has been transformed into something approaching a protectorate of the US. In this bizarre regime change without a change of regime, Maduro’s former vice president, Delcy […]
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BE Club Bash – Engineers Week
Jack Baskin Engineering Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CADiscover innovation at the Baskin Engineering Club Bash, an event celebrating National Engineers Week! Mark your calendars for Thursday, February 26, 12–2 PM in the BE Courtyard! The BE Club Bash brings together student […]
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Campus to Career: Job Talk with Fashion Reporter Elizabeth Segran
Virtual EventAre you interested in writing, fashion, or sustainability? Join us for a job talk with Elizabeth Segran, a successful fashion reporter and author.
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Black on the Block
Crown Provost House 660 Crown Service Road, Santa Cruz, CAJoin the African American Resource & Cultural Center every Thursday from 1–2 p.m., at the front of the Ethnic Resource Center for Black on the Block, a weekly tabling and engagement space. Stop by to learn about campus resources, upcoming programs, and ways to get involved. It’s a casual, welcoming space to ask questions, make […]
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Coast-to-Coast Men’s Basketball Conference Tournament – Quarterfinals
Kaiser Permanente Arena 140 Front St, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Coast-to-Coast Men’s Basketball Conference Tournament is coming to Santa Cruz! The Banana Slugs are set to host the five-game tournament February 26-28, welcoming University of Mary Washington, Christopher Newport University, Salisbury University, and Warren Wilson College to the West Coast! Quarterfinals are Thursday, Feb. 26 at Kaiser Permanente Arena. Tip-off is 3 p.m. Semifinals […]
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Distinguished Teaching Award Lecture — Teaching Week 2026
Merrill Cultural Center 200 McLaughlin Dr, Santa Cruz, CAHybrid EventJoin us as Distinguished Teaching Award recipient Laurie Palmer, Professor of Art, shares her insights on teaching. This lecture is one of the key events featured in Teaching Week 2026.
Starting in 2018-2019, the Distinguished Teaching Award recognizes outstanding teaching on our campus. This annual award is an opportunity to acknowledge the pedagogical contributions of our colleagues that include—but also go beyond—any one particular course. It seeks to recognize an instructor that has made significant contributions to educational equity within and beyond UC Santa Cruz.Free to the public -
How promotions actually happen (and why hard work alone isn’t enough)
Silicon Valley Campus 3175 Bowers Avenue, Santa Clara, CA, United StatesMost professionals are told a simple formula: work hard, deliver results, and your career will naturally advance. Yet many find that after years of strong performance, progress slows—responsibilities grow without recognition, and promotions go elsewhere. The issue is rarely capability, but a misunderstanding of how advancement really works. Each career stage has different expectations: the […]
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Will Work for Food
Hay Barn 94 Ranch View Road, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoin us for a conversation on labor, food, and justice with Will Work for Food co-author Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern and regional food production and service workers Veronica Rodriguez (Dole, Soledad), and X (Verve, Santa Cruz). Together, they will explore the often-overlooked role of labor in building a more just food system. Free and open to the public. Translation provided.
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The Madame Mystery Cabaret Magic Show
Stevenson Event Center Stevenson Service Road, Santa Cruz, CAMadame Mystery: A Night of Magic & Cabaret All the way from Las Vegas to UCSC, experience a fabulous evening of mystery and magic inspired by the glamour of vintage […]
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Kitchen Counterculture: A Conversation About Jerry Garcia, the Grateful Dead, and the Food that Fueled a Revolution
Bookshop Santa CruzBookshop Santa Cruz Presents Kitchen Counterculture: A Conversation About Jerry Garcia, the Grateful Dead, and the Food that Fueled a Revolution,” featuring award-winning food writer Gabi Moskowitz and journalist, teacher, and author Jim Newton. This event is cosponsored by the UC Santa Cruz The Humanities Division, The Humanities Institute, and the UCSC Special Collections & […]
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Movies to let you “Think Different”: Just Mercy
Porter/Kresge Dining Hall 411 Porter-Kresge Rd, Santa Cruz, CAJoin Porter College for a screening of Just Mercy Whether it’s just entertainment and a study break, or you want to let your mind stretch in a different direction from your classes and homework. We hope you might find these films engaging. Popcorn, hot tea, and cocoa will be provided. You Belong Here: The […]
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