• Ruth Ozeki – The Typing Lady

    Bookshop Santa Cruz

    Bookshop welcomes Booker Prize finalist Ruth Ozeki (A Tale for the Time Being), who will share her spellbinding story collection The Typing Lady: And Other Fictions about the lives we […]

  • SocDoc M.F.A. Thesis Screening

    Landmark’s Del Mar Theatre

    The Social Documentation M.F.A. Thesis Screening is a yearly event held by the Film and Digital Media Department. This event is part of the Social Documentation M.F.A. program, and involves […]

    FREE and open to the public
  • American Indian Resource Center (AIRC) Year End Celebration

    Hay Barn 94 Ranch View Road, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Congratulations, Class of 2026! The American Indian Resource Center (AIRC) Year End Celebration, affectionately referred to as YEC, is an intimate celebration of all graduating Native students and past interns of the American Indian Resource Center and People of Color Sustainability Collective. We will be honoring a few of our graduates with gifts and a […]

  • 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 introduction to how AI is transforming the field. Learn how the Embedded Firmware Essentials course prepares you to develop low-level software, interface with hardware components, and build reliable real-time […]

  • NEW Exhibit at the Seymour Center, Grand Opening June 13 – 14

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

    See More HQ is the next evolution of the Seymour Center—a brand-new, bilingual interactive hub designed to bring real-time coastal science directly to you.

    Join us on June 13 and 14 from 10 AM – 4 PM to celebrate our grand launch! We’re pulling out all the stops with a jam-packed schedule of interactive activities:

    💥 HQ Exploration Stations • 🦈 Aquarium Feeding • 🥾 Guided Outdoor Tours • 🎨 Santa Cruz Maker Studios Pop-Up • 📚 Seaside Storytime
    Don’t miss out on the fun and be among the very first to experience the new See More HQ!

    All activities are included with admission and are free for members.

    $12
  • NEW Exhibit at the Seymour Center, Grand Opening June 13 – 14

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

    See More HQ is the next evolution of the Seymour Center—a brand-new, bilingual interactive hub designed to bring real-time coastal science directly to you.

    Join us on June 13 and 14 from 10 AM – 4 PM to celebrate our grand launch! We’re pulling out all the stops with a jam-packed schedule of interactive activities:

    💥 HQ Exploration Stations • 🦈 Aquarium Feeding • 🥾 Guided Outdoor Tours • 🎨 Santa Cruz Maker Studios Pop-Up • 📚 Seaside Storytime
    Don’t miss out on the fun and be among the very first to experience the new See More HQ!

    All activities are included with admission and are free for members.

    $12
  • Chicanx Latiné Year-End Ceremony

    Lower East Field

    For decades, El Centro has hosted the Chicane Latiné Year-End Ceremony—a beloved tradition that celebrates the achievements and cultural pride of Chicanx Latinx graduating students and their families. This bilingual ceremony features danzantes, live musical performances, and powerful keynote speakers, all coming together to honor the strength, resilience, and joy of our community. The Chicanx […]

  • Just-In-Time (all-majors) Virtual Career & Internship Fair

    Virtual Event

    Undergraduate and graduate students and recent alumni interested in pursuing careers in all industries are welcome to attend. Get the chance to meet recruiters from all industries/firms seeking to fill internship, full-time, and part-time roles. Connect virtually and take essential steps toward laying the foundation for your future career and potentially even land an interview! […]

  • Meal Planning for Real Life: Making Meals Easier

    Wellness in Action

    Faculty & Staff Health and Well-being Program Location: Register for the Zoom link Struggling to figure out what to eat after a long workday or always heading to the vending machine at lunch? Meal planning can help with that, but it doesn’t have to mean spending your whole Sunday meal prepping or eating the same thing every […]

  • Summer Session 1, 8-Week and 10-Week Classes Start

    Summer courses start today! Make sure you’re set with Canvas access, dates and deadlines, and any first-day instructions from your instructors. Find answers to common questions on our website or […]

  • 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 users. Learn how UX and web design specialists use research‑driven methods, prototyping tools, and inclusive design principles to build seamless digital experiences across platforms. Speaker […]

  • Freedom From Smoking® Tobacco Cessation Program Informational Session

    Join the information session Tuesday, June 23, from 12:00 PM-1:00 PM Location: Register for the Zoom link Quitting is not easy, but it can be easier with group support and help. Developed by the American Lung Association, Freedom From Smoking® delivered by UCSC is considered the gold standard for tobacco cessation programs. This multi-week evidence-based […]

  • Daniel Mason – Country People

    Bookshop Santa Cruz

    Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Pulitzer Prize finalist Daniel Mason (North Woods) for a reading and signing of his new novel Country People—a rollicking, lyrical year in the life of a family […]

  • Celebrating UCSC Science Breakthroughs with Nobel Laureate Dr. Carol Greider

    Hard Rock Hotel San Diego 207 Fifth Ave, San Diego, CA

    Please join us on June 24, 2026, at 5:30 pm at the Hard Rock Hotel San Diego, for a special reception with UC Santa Cruz Nobel Laureate Carol Greider and members of the UCSC Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology faculty. Carol won the Nobel Prize in 2009 for discovering how the tips of our […]

    Free
  • Homer’s The Odyssey Reading Group

    Homer’s Odyssey is becoming a major motion picture. Whether you like movies or not, this is a great excuse to read this millennia-old story about a salty war hero who just wants […]

  • BME/Genomics Seminar: Supervised and Unsupervised DeepGene Finding and Genome Foundation Models

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

    Presenter: Mario Stanke, Professor of Bioinformatics, University of Greifswald Description: This talk will explore recent machine learning approaches for eukaryotic genome annotation. Our supervised ab initio deep gene finder, Tiberius, correctly predicts more than four times as many human protein-coding gene structures as its father, Augustus, and in some clades, it approaches the accuracy of […]

  • Burbano, L. (CS) – Security of autonomous decision-making agents: From control systems to embodied AI

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

    Due to their increasing complexity, autonomous decision-making agents rely on increasingly advanced algorithms, from classical control theory to reinforcement learning (RL) and, more recently, large vision-language models. While these algorithms help automate the decision-making in complex systems, they bring newer attack vulnerabilities that an adversary can exploit. In this dissertation, we study the security of […]