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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Joshua McFadden, Six Seasons of Pasta

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

Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes James Beard Award-winning author Joshua McFadden for a discussion and signing of his highly anticipated new cookbook Six Seasons of Pasta. In his follow-up to Six Seasons: A […]

$48

Enoughness in the Age of Comparison

What does “enough” look like in your life—and who gets to decide? In a world that constantly pushes us to do, earn, and be more, this webinar invites you to […]

Free

Penumbra de la memoria: Brown Bag with Maya Scherr-Willson

Huerta Center Conference Room (Casa Latina) 641 Merrill Rd, Santa Cruz,, CA

During this presentation, Maya Scherr-Willson (PhD Student in the Film and Media Department) will show material and reflect on insights from a research trip that laid the groundwork for Penumbra […]

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