• UCSC Farm U-Pick

    UCSC Farm U-Pick
    UCSC Farm 152 Farm Rd, Santa Cruz, CA

    Come enjoy picking your own organic strawberries and/or flowers at the campus farm! When: U-picks will take place on Saturdays from 9am to 12pm, July 11–August 22, or while supplies last. PLEASE NOTE that u-pick will not occur on Saturday, August 29. Where: Free parking will be available in the Hay Barn lot or lot […]

  • Play Aqua Cruz: The Water Challenge Board Game!

    Seymour Marine Discovery Center 100 McAllister Way, Santa Cruz, CA

    Play Aqua Cruz: The Water Challenge Board Game! Take charge of Santa Cruz’s water future! Join a fun, interactive board game session where every decision counts in the race to close the water supply gap. You’ll strategize which water projects to pursue while navigating real-world challenges to keep the water flowing in our community. Included […]

  • Pawar, M. (CSE) – Understanding Representations, Reasoning, and Decision-Making in Autonomous Driving Models

    Virtual Event

    Modern autonomous-driving models increasingly rely on learned representations and generated reasoning to interpret complex scenes and produce predictions or actions. However, it remains unclear what information these models encode, how that information is exposed through common interpretation methods, and whether their stated reasoning meaningfully influences their behavior. This research investigates these questions across motion-forecasting and […]

  • Empowering humans through AI

    Silicon Valley Campus 3175 Bowers Avenue, Santa Clara, CA, United States

    Join us for an inside look at how our AI Application Development courses provide hands‑on experience, industry‑driven projects, and the technical foundation you need to advance your career as an ML Engineer, […]

  • Gomez, J. (CSE) – Toward Sustainable and Secure Open Source Software: Discovery, Measurement, and Defense

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

    In March 2024, a backdoor was discovered in xz Utils, a widely used open source data compression library present in nearly every major Linux distribution. The attack was discovered days before merging into major distributions, and if this had happened, it would have allowed attackers to execute arbitrary code on millions of systems worldwide via […]

  • Getting Involved in Your Campus Community

    Successful Slug Workshops
    Virtual Event

    In this workshop, you will: Learn how to get involved with the campus community and how it supports student success. The Successful Slug Workshop series, hosted by Learning Support Services Peer Coaches, are open to all UCSC undergraduate students and focus on academic skills and tools to support your success as a student. At each workshop, […]

  • Designing for Today’s Digital World

    Silicon Valley Campus 3175 Bowers Avenue, Santa Clara, CA, United States

    Design digital experiences people love to use. In today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape, organizations need professionals who can combine empathy, usability, and aesthetics to create interfaces that engage and delight […]

  • Bioinformatics: Lead the next wave of innovation

    Silicon Valley Campus 3175 Bowers Avenue, Santa Clara, CA, United States

    Where biology meets Big Data Join us for an inside look at how our Bioinformatics courses can help you strengthen your skills in data analysis, genomics, and software tools—preparing you […]

  • Bioinformatics: Lead the next wave of innovation

    Silicon Valley Campus 3175 Bowers Avenue, Santa Clara, CA, United States

    Where biology meets Big Data Join us for an inside look at how our Bioinformatics courses can help you strengthen your skills in data analysis, genomics, and software tools—preparing you […]

  • Where Hardware Meets Intelligence

    Silicon Valley Campus 3175 Bowers Avenue, Santa Clara, CA, United States

    Embedded Systems: Build the Intelligence Behind the Hardware Join Juergen Kienhoefer to explore the foundations of embedded systems and how firmware powers the devices we use every day—plus get an […]

  • Advance your Career in Medical Device Design & Quality

    Silicon Valley Campus 3175 Bowers Avenue, Santa Clara, CA, United States

    From discovery to market Join Kiran Gulati, chair of the UCSC Silicon Valley Extension Medical Device Quality and Design program, for an inside look at how our courses provide hands-on training, […]

  • Kramer, A. (BMEB) – Scalable phylo-pangenomics

    Biomedical Sciences Building 575 McLaughlin Drive
    Hybrid Event

    The COVID-19 pandemic generated genomic data at unprecedented scale, with tens of millions of SARS-CoV-2 genomes deposited in public repositories and thousands of new sequences added each day. This dissertation develops methods for analyzing genomic datasets at this scale, unified by the idea that encoding genomes according to their evolutionary relationships can make otherwise intractable […]

  • Educational Therapy Program Info Session

    Silicon Valley Campus 3175 Bowers Avenue, Santa Clara, CA, United States

    Transform learning Join Diana Black Kennedy, chair of UCSC Silicon Valley’s Educational Therapy program, to learn how this distinctive program prepares educators and professionals to create meaningful, lasting impact. As one of the […]

  • Saleem, O. (ECE) – Coupled Evacuation Readiness and Post-Disaster Restoration for Vehicle-to-Grid Enabled Resilient Power–Transportation Networks

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

    The accelerating adoption of zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) in California is reshaping both the transportation and electrical grids at the moment as climate-driven disasters are intensifying in frequency and severity. This dual transition exposes a critical structural gap: existing resilience research treats pre-disaster evacuation readiness and post-disaster grid restoration as separate problems, even though both are […]

  • Nag, S. (BMEB) – Personalized Diploid Genome Graphs for Accurate Somatic Variant Discovery

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

    Many somatic variant-calling pipelines begin by aligning tumor and matched-normal sequencing reads to a single linear reference genome, such as GRCh38. Because every individual differs substantially from this reference, this approach can introduce reference bias, causing reads to map incorrectly or not at all and potentially leading to missed somatic variants or germline variants being […]

  • Life as an International Grad Student Workshop

    Virtual Event

    Welcome new international graduate students! To prepare for your arrival, we invite you to join our International Grad Peer Mentors for an online session that will go over life as […]

  • Santa Cruz Maker Studios at Seymour Center!

    Seymour Marine Discovery Center 100 McAllister Way, Santa Cruz, CA

    Looking for fun, weekend family activities? Join us on select Saturdays through the end of the year for hands-on, ocean-themed maker projects for kids! ✨ Featured Workshops:  🌊 Build and Test a Seawall: Learn marine engineering by testing custom defenses 🐋 Make a Wooden Sea Creature: Build a custom wooden ocean friend 🐠 Ocean-Theme 3D […]

  • Sold Out: Farm to Fork 2026

    UCSC Farm 152 Farm Rd, Santa Cruz, CA +1 more

    This event is sold out. Thank you! Join the Center for Agroecology for an evening at the Farm Enjoy a reception and benefit dinner on the UCSC Farm followed by dancing in the Hay Barn! This event will feature music, appetizers, tours, and local wine followed by a seasonally-focused, locally-sourced meal featuring produce from the […]