• OLLI at UCSC Sunday Speaker Meeting

    Colleges Nine and John R. Lewis College Multi-purpose Room 615 College Nine Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    Join OLLI for a social hour and a presentation titled, Are We Alone? Thirty Years of Exoplanet Discovery

    Free
  • AM Seminar: Variational Inference and Density Estimation with Non-Negative Tensor Train

    Jack Baskin Engineering Building, 372

    Presenter: Dr. Xun Tang, Stanford University Description: This talk covers an efficient numerical approach for compressing a high-dimensional discrete distribution function into a non-negative tensor train (NTT) format. The two settings we consider are variational inference and density estimation, whereby one has access to either the unnormalized analytic formula of the distribution or the samples […]

  • Statistics Seminar: Hierarchical Clustering with Confidence

    Jack Baskin Engineering Building, 156

    Presenter: Snigdha Panigrahi, Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Michigan Description:Agglomerative hierarchical clustering is one of the most widely used approaches for exploring how observations in a dataset relate to each other. However, its greedy nature makes it highly sensitive to small perturbations in the data, often producing different clustering results and making it […]

  • Aziz Abu Sarah & Maoz Inon – The Future is Peace

    Temple Beth El 3055 Porter Gulch Road, Aptos, United States

    Two lifelong peace activists and guides to Israel/Palestine, both of whom have lost family in the conflict, take readers on a revealing life-changing journey across this holy, bloodstained land and discover the mythic, political, and personal history that divides but also binds them and their peoples. In The Future Is Peace, Sarah and Inon take readers […]

  • The Tallest Dwarf—film screening and talk with Julie Wyman

    Communications Building 7487 Red Hill Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    UC Santa Cruz affiliates are invited to a screening and discussion with filmmaker Julie Forrest Wyman. The Tallest Dwarf charts the filmmaker’s quest to find her place within the little people (LP) community at a moment when dwarf identity is poised to radically change. Wyman’s work engages issues of embodiment, body image, and the possibilities […]

    FREE and open to UCSC affiliates
  • Field Trip to ALBA

    MJ Organic Farms 1700 Old Stage Rd, Salinas, California

    Join us for an opportunity to visit the Agriculture and Land-Based Training Association (ALBA) in Salinas! ALBA is a non-profit whose mission is to create economic opportunity for aspiring organic farmers and ag professionals — many of whom are local field workers and first-generation college students — through land-based education in the heart of the Salinas Valley. […]

  • BE Climate & Cookies Student Pop-Up!

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

    Come get excited about Baskin Engineering Climate Week at our student pop-up! 🌎 Climate Week is a chance to explore how Baskin Engineering is addressing climate challenges through innovative research, teaching, and hands-on projects. Discover the events happening throughout the week and find ways to get involved! Swing by for FREE BE swag, coffee, cookies, […]

  • Campus to Career: Job Talk with Communications Manager David Coy

    Virtual Event

    Are you curious about the communications field, but not quite sure what it entails? Join our job talk with UCSC alumnus David Coy, a mission-driven communications professional. David will tell us about his journey into communications work and how he discovered his passion for helping impactful organizations craft compelling content. If you’re interested in careers in communications, development, marketing, or social impact, this event is for you!

    All students are welcome. The interview will last approximately 30 minutes, followed by a 15-minute Q&A.

    We will provide captions for the presentation. If you have disability-related needs, please contact the Career Success office at mpelrine@ucsc.edu as soon as possible.

  • Economics Field Study Info Session

    Economics Field Study Info Session
    Virtual Event

    The Economics field study program offers eligible economics majors an opportunity to earn academic credit while gaining valuable on-the-job experience with a local business or non-profit, or an on-campus administrative office. These internship opportunities allow students to experience how what they’ve learned in the classroom can be applied in real-life situations. The information sessions will explain eligibility requirements and what is needed to obtain an internship and enroll in the field study program.

  • A Sacred Place: Film Screening and Conversation with Dr. Dolly Kikon

    Communications Building 7487 Red Hill Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    Please join us for the American premiere of A Sacred Place (2026), by Professor Dolly Kikon (Anthropology). The film tells the story of stones, spirits, and salt springs in Makhel. The film focuses on intergenerational storytellers and their relationship with the land. It integrates visual ethnography, oral tradition, and geological features of Makhel to center […]

    Free
  • Arts & Ecology Festival: Creative Resistance

    Digital Arts Research Center 407 McHenry Rd, Santa Cruz, CA

    On Earth Day, UC Santa Cruz launches the inaugural Arts & Ecology Festival: Creative Resistance, a campus-wide gathering that refuses to treat climate change as a problem of carbon alone. Instead, it brings together artists, scientists, students, and community partners to engage the deeper conditions of the crisis, and to open space for cultural, political, […]

  • CSE Colloquium – Robust Machine Learning for Biomedical Data: Efficiency, Reliability, and Generalizability

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

    Presenter Chenyu You, Stony Brook University Abstract In the rapidly growing area of machine learning, there is profound promise in crafting intelligent, data-driven methods for diverse real-world applications. Yet, in safety-critical domains like healthcare, some fundamental challenges remain: (1) The insufficiency of raw biomedical data emphasizes the need for data-efficient and robust learning approaches. (2) […]

    Free
  • HireNew York Multi-University Alumni Career Fair

    Prince George Ballroom 15 E 27th Street, New York, NY, United States

    Calling University of California Alumni in the tri-state area! Are you ready for your next career move? Join fellow alumni and professionals at the HireNew York Multi-University Alumni Career Fair, […]

    Free
  • UCSC Dining Tasting Fair

    Colleges Nine and John R. Lewis College Multi-purpose Room 615 College Nine Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    UCSC Dining Tasting Fair Get your taste buds ready! Join us for a fun afternoon of delicious discoveries at the 12th annual UCSC Dining Tasting Fair. This is your chance to sample a wide variety of food and drinks from our premium quality suppliers and our very own talented culinary team. Event Details When: Wednesday, […]

  • Navigating SWANA Grief and Joy

    Cardiff House 114 Carriage House Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    The Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center is celebrating SWANA Heritage Month with a series of events! Join us on Wednesday, April 22nd at the Cardiff House for a community space […]

  • Convivir y Comunidad: A Transfer Student Mixer

    Porter I-Lounge

    Join El Centro and STARRS for an evening of conversation and interactive activities with transfer students, and learn about resources available on and off campus! You Belong Here: The programs and services described here are open to all, consistent with state and federal law, as well as the University of California’s nondiscrimination policies. Every initiative—whether […]

  • Women of Color Environmentalists panel 2026

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

    Join the UCSC People of Color Sustainability Collective for a panel that celebrates the efforts, voices, and visions of women of color environmentalists. These panelists have worked in various fields, from irrigation systems, marine research, agroecology, and more! Come learn about opportunities you can take part in as an undergrad, graduate opportunities and programs, and […]

  • ¿Qué Pasa? – MEChA & CARE Workshop

    Redwood Lounge Student Union/Redwood Building, Santa Cruz, CA

    Somos como las monarcas: resistimos y transformamos culturas. As part of Sexual Assault Awareness & Action Month (SAAM), join CARE & MEChA for a conversation on consent, boundary setting and gender-based violence within the lens of community and family. Activities include vision board and CD cover cases making as part of the Identifying Boundaries portion. […]