Sequence to Survival: Using Genomics to Save Biodiversity
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 […]
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Cultural Center – Merrill College 641 Merrill Rd, Santa Cruz, United States
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BME80G Seminar – Katherine Bonini, “Rethinking Familial Risk in Genomic Medicine: Ethical Approaches to Cascade Screening”
Jack Baskin Auditorium 191 Baskin Cir, Santa Cruz, CAPresenter: 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, […]
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Meet the Campus Mobile Crisis Team
Porter College QuadThe 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 […]
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Party Safe Presents: Rave Ready
Porter College QuadPrepping for EDC or any other upcoming rave? Stop by Rave Ready on May 1 from 3 to 7 p.m. in the Porter Quad, an event hosted by Student Health Outreach and Promotion’s Party Safe team in collaboration with Porter College! Pick up Narcan, fentanyl testing strips, and safer sex supplies and stay for free […]
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Percussionist Christopher Clarino—April in Santa Cruz
Music Center Recital Hall 400 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CAJoin 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 […]
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Berry U-Pick at the UCSC Farm
UCSC Farm 152 Farm Rd, Santa Cruz, CACome 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 […]
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First Saturday Tour at the Arboretum
Arboretum 122 Arboretum Road, Santa Cruz, CAFirst 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
Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz, United StatesVisit 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
Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz, United StatesOn 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 […]
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Sister Warriors in Conversation: Expanding Communities of Care in CA Women’s Prisons
Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz, United StatesThis 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 […]
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Spring Exhibitions at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences
Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz, United StatesVisit 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
Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz, United StatesOn 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 […]
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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 […]
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ECE 290 Seminar: Speaker – Dr. Jaeyoung Lim “Autonomous Information Gathering using Long Endurance Aerial Vehicles”
Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAPresenter: 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 […]
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Navigating Coexistence: Mountain Lion Behavior, Outdoor Recreation, and the Challenges of Managing Multiuse Landscapes in California’s Santa Cruz Mountains
John Morgan from the UCSC Environmental Studies Department In Person Location: ISB 221 Zoom Link As outdoor recreation grows in popularity, its effects on wildlife remain poorly understood. This dissertation examines how outdoor recreational activity shapes the behavior of mountain lions (Puma concolor) in California’s Santa Cruz Mountains – a fragmented landscape where large carnivores […]
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Let’s Talk
Virtual EventNeed 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 […]
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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, CAPresenter: 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 […]
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AM Seminar: Engineering the Earth’s Climate
Jack Baskin Engineering Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAPresenter: 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. […]
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Analyzing AI Security and Vulnerabilities in the Current Landscape
Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAInterested 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 […]
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Launch of the new Shadow Indigenous Worlds (SIW) initiative
Communications Building 7487 Red Hill Road, Santa Cruz, CAHybrid EventShadow 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 […]