Archives 101 for Graduate Students

McHenry Library 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, CA

Feeling the archival impulse? Come get some hands-on experience with our collections, chat about archives with your fellow grad students, and get your questions answered about archival research at UCSC and beyond. Curious undergrads are welcome, too! Space is limited. Please RSVP so we can get an accurate headcount. This event is co-sponsored by the Center […]

Sesnon Salon: History of Art & Visual Culture

Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery Baskin Service Road, Santa Cruz, CA

The Arts Division welcome students, faculty, staff, and the general community to a salon-style gathering presenting the work of UC Santa Cruz’s History of Art and Visual Culture (HAVC) Department.

FREE and open to the public

All UCSC Student-Led Health Organizations Meeting!

Social Sciences 1 Social Sciences 1, Santa Cruz, CA

📞 Calling all Student-Led Health Organizations! 📆 Join the Global and Community Health Program on Thursday, October 17th at 4:30 – 5:30 PM in Social Sciences Building 1, Room 261. 🔑 Key purpose: To meet and greet representatives of other student-led health organizations + share announcements + coordinate events/resources, as is possible. 😊 Please join […]

BE Climate Connectors

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

Dear Baskin Engineering community, We’re excited to invite you to the kickoff of this year’s BE Climate Connectors series — a monthly gathering designed to bring together faculty, instructors, researchers, graduate students, and key staff working on climate solutions. When: Thursday, October 16 at 5:00 PM Where: E2 599 What: Wine, beer, and light snacks provided These informal monthly […]

Alumni Awards Celebration

University Center University Center, Santa Cruz, CA

UC Santa Cruz recognizes and honors those who have demonstrated outstanding professional achievements, made distinct contributions to society and UC Santa Cruz, and have embodied the values and spirit of the University.

$75

Slugs Campout

Upper East Field

Adventure Rec warmly welcome UCSC students to join the 5th annual Campus Campout on the Upper East Field! Friday, September 26, 6:30pm – Saturday, September 27, 9:00am.

Fall Harvest Welcome

UCSC Farm 152 Farm Rd, Santa Cruz, CA

Join the American Indian Resource Center, People of Color Sustainability Collective, UCSC Agroecology, and the Sustainability Office for a day of fun at the Farm Center! This Fall Harvest Welcome will be all about community building, learning about flora/fauna indigenous to Santa Cruz County, Native storytelling, and will feature a land blessing.

Harvest Festival

UCSC Farm 152 Farm Rd, Santa Cruz, CA

Connect with community on the campus farm at the annual Harvest Festival!   On the Main Stage: 11:12pm–12:00pm: White Hawk Indian Council for Children 12:30–1:40pm: Sambada  2–3pm: Ancestree  Activities 11-3pm Apple pressing for cider Pumpkin and produce sales Apple pie baking contest (more details here) Face painting Pumpkin painting Bouquet making Tractor rides 1:45pm Medicinal Plant Walk […]

Free – $5

Festival of Monsters: Oh, the Horror!

Bookshop Santa Cruz

exploring the ways monsters and tropes of monstrosity pervade our culture.

Registration Required; FREE and open to the public

Trans & Queer Fall Mixer

Porter/Kresge Dining Hall 411 Porter-Kresge Rd, Santa Cruz, CA

The Trans & Queer Fall Mixer is UCSC’s annual welcome event for new and returning students. Join us to learn more about the Lionel Cantú Queer Resource Center and to connect with the rainbow community at UCSC and in Santa Cruz. You’ll have the opportunity to learn about resources, make new friends, and enjoy music […]

OLLI at UCSC Sunday Speaker Series

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

Julie James, Founder Jewel Theatre, presents “Jewel Theater Company: Behind the Curtain” Hosted by OLLI at UCSC (Osher Lifelong Learning Institute). Public invited to join OLLI for a social hour and presentation. Julie James has been a member of Actors’ Equity for 28 years and has acted and directed in several plays. She holds a BA in Theatre Arts […]

ECE 290 Seminar: Biohybrid Electronics Using Extracellular Electron Transfer

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

Presenter: Ben Keitz, Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin Description: Qualities exhibited by living systems, including self-regulation, self-healing, morphology control, and environmental responsiveness, are highly attractive for sensing and computing applications. However, it has been challenging to develop robust and programmable interfaces between living systems and electronic components. Addressing this challenge, our lab employs […]

CM Seminar – “Forty-Four Esolangs: The Art of Esoteric Code”

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

Presented by: Daniel Temkin Description: Software art is widely accepted, but can programming languages themselves be art? The new book Forty-Four Esolangs makes this argument, collecting work by a single artist who poses code as prayer to the Greek gods, patterns of empty folders, or typed in tandem by two programmers, the rhythm and synchrony […]

AM Seminar: Sampling-Based Adaptive Rank Integrators for Multi-scale Kinetic Models.

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

Presenter: Professor Jingmei Qiu, University of Delaware   Description: In this talk, we introduce a sampling-based semi-Lagrangian adaptive rank (SLAR) method, which leverages a cross approximation strategy—also known as CUR or pseudo-skeleton decomposition—to efficiently represent low-rank structures in kinetic solutions. The method dynamically adapts the rank of the solution while ensuring numerical stability through singular value truncation […]

Statistics Seminar: Distance-to-set regularization for inference under constraints

Presenter: Jason Xu, Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics, UCLA Description: We consider a penalty framework based on regularizing the squared distance to set-based constraints for several core statistical tasks. These distance-to-set penalties provide a simple and flexible way to cast constrained optimization problems in more tractable unconstrained forms. We will see that they often avoid […]

Screening: Cracking the Code

Landmark’s Del Mar Theatre

Please join us for a public screening of “Cracking the Code: Phil Sharp and the Biotech Revolution” at the Landmark Theater on Monday, October 20.

CITRIS Aviation Prize Information Session

Join us for this virtual info session on the 2025–26 CITRIS Aviation Prize, an exciting multi-campus student competition inviting teams to design innovative solutions for the future of air mobility across the University of California. The session will cover this year’s competition guidelines, key dates and requirements, and available resources. Attendees will also have the opportunity […]

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