• Ensuring Your Professional Longevity

    There are many things that can derail our ability to advance in our careers while maintaining long-term sustainability and health.  Join us as we discuss the 4 key factors that will help us thrive and enjoy our professional lives for years to come.  Whether you’re an early-career professional or already deep into your career journey, […]

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  • Research Lunch & Learn: Effective award management

    Virtual Event

    Join the Research Financial Services and Extramural Funds Accounting leadership for a conversation about good internal controls and effective financial oversight of sponsored projects accounts. During this session, we will discuss the tools and resources that are available to ensure that we are good stewards of the funds entrusted to us. We will review when […]

  • Elimination of Duration of Status: Final Town Hall

    Virtual Event

    Changes to the “duration of status” for F and J visa holders are now in effect. Immigration rules are complex, and Global Engagement wants to make sure you have accurate information. We invite you to join us for a comprehensive update and a Q&A session for F and J visa-holding students and scholars. Click here […]

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

    Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery August 13-September 19, 2026 Opening celebration and Artist Talk Saturday, August 15, 2-4:30 p.m Light refreshments will be served. Summer Gallery Hours: Thursday-Saturday, 1-5pm ReView: […]

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

    Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery August 13-September 19, 2026 Opening celebration and Artist Talk Saturday, August 15, 2-4:30 p.m Light refreshments will be served. Summer Gallery Hours: Thursday-Saturday, 1-5pm ReView: […]

  • Valderrama, S. (CSE) – Closing Data Gaps for Cybersecurity AI Training and Evaluation

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

    Artificial intelligence and machine learning models depend on large and diverse datasets to learn patterns across different situations and generalize to cases they have not seen before. In cybersecurity, suitable data is difficult to find for two main reasons: first, sensitive information limits what organizations can share; second, public datasets often lack the coverage or […]

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

    Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery August 13-September 19, 2026 Opening celebration and Artist Talk Saturday, August 15, 2-4:30 p.m Light refreshments will be served. Summer Gallery Hours: Thursday-Saturday, 1-5pm ReView: […]

  • UCSC Farm U-Pick

    UCSC Farm U-Pick
    UCSC Farm 152 Farm Rd, Santa Cruz, CA

    Come enjoy picking your own organic produce at the campus farm! When: U-picks will take place on Saturdays from 9am to 12pm while supplies last. What: Enjoy farm fresh corn, apples, tomatoes, flowers and more! Where: Free parking will be available in the Hay Barn lot or lot 115/116 during u-pick hours. Please do not park […]

  • Free Guided Tour of the UCSC Farm

    Free Guided Tour of the UCSC Farm
    UCSC Farm 152 Farm Rd, Santa Cruz, CA

    Take a free, guided tour of the 30-acre organic UCSC Farm. Visitors can enjoy touring the organically managed greenhouses, hand-worked garden beds, orchards, row crop fields, and children’s garden, while learning about the history of the site and the basic concepts of organic farming and gardening. Perched on a meadow near the campus entrance, the […]

  • Santa Cruz Maker Studios at Seymour Center!

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

    Looking for fun, weekend family activities? Join us on select Saturdays through the end of the year for hands-on, ocean-themed maker projects for kids! Featured Workshops:  Build and Test a Seawall: Learn marine engineering by testing custom defenses Make a Wooden Sea Creature: Build a custom wooden ocean friend Ocean-Theme 3D Kits: Hands-on puzzle building  […]

  • Seymour Center’s Seaside Storytime

    Seymour Center’s Seaside Storytime
    Seymour Marine Discovery Center 100 McAllister Way, Santa Cruz, CA

    Get ready to set sail on a storybook adventure! 📚 ✨ It’s the ultimate weekend treat to spark big imaginations, foster a love for nature, and nurture the next generation of ocean heroes! 🌊 🐚 📖 Our friends at Bookshop Santa Cruz have hand-selected a collection of books about the environment that are perfect for […]

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

    Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery August 13-September 19, 2026 Opening celebration and Artist Talk Saturday, August 15, 2-4:30 p.m Light refreshments will be served. Summer Gallery Hours: Thursday-Saturday, 1-5pm ReView: […]

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

    Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery August 13-September 19, 2026 Opening celebration and Artist Talk Saturday, August 15, 2-4:30 p.m Light refreshments will be served. Summer Gallery Hours: Thursday-Saturday, 1-5pm ReView: […]

  • Mirzanezhad, H. (EE) – Van der Waals materials-based memory devices for neuromorphic computing

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

    The separation of memory and processing in conventional computer architectures leads to significant energy consumption associated with data transfer, known as the von Neumann bottleneck. Two-dimensional (2D) materials provide a promising platform for developing nanoscale memory devices for in-memory and neuromorphic computing because of their atomic-scale thickness, lack of dangling bonds, and ability to form […]

  • September Slugs and Steins with University Archivist Kelsey Knox

    Virtual Event

    Slime is on Their Side: Celebrating 40 (Official) Years of the UCSC Banana Slug Mascot While rumors and stories abound about the sea lion vs. banana slug controversy of the 1980s, the full history of the banana slug as UCSC’s long-running student chosen mascot has rarely been explored. In honor of the 40th anniversary of […]

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

    Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery August 13-September 19, 2026 Opening celebration and Artist Talk Saturday, August 15, 2-4:30 p.m Light refreshments will be served. Summer Gallery Hours: Thursday-Saturday, 1-5pm ReView: […]

  • Sowing Sovereignty: Growing Seeds and Cultivating Resilience

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

    Join the Ecological Farming Association (EcoFarm) at the Hay Barn and UCSC Farm for a focused conversation on organic seeds — from seed economics and profitability to hands-on care and stewardship practices. We’ll explore varietal selection, storage, germination, and seed saving, along with a practical discussion on the role and legitimacy of community seed libraries […]

    $75 – $99
  • Tornoe, S. (ECE) – Improving the UV optical response and suppressing surface plasmon resonance in aluminum and silver base telescope mirrors

    2300 Delaware Avenue 2300 Delaware Ave, Santa Cruz, CA
    Hybrid Event

    Aluminum and silver are excellent metal-bases for astronomical telescopes designed for broadband spectral measurements. In particular silver excels in the violet to infrared spectral range range with over 95% reflectance. In turn aluminum excels deep ultra-violet to infrared with over 90% reflectance across the bulk of its spectral range. In astronomical telescope optics, each percent […]

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

    Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery August 13-September 19, 2026 Opening celebration and Artist Talk Saturday, August 15, 2-4:30 p.m Light refreshments will be served. Summer Gallery Hours: Thursday-Saturday, 1-5pm ReView: […]