• Changemakers with Dr. Cornel West

    Merrill Cultural Center 200 McLaughlin Dr, Santa Cruz, CA

    We are engaging education and we are honored to host Dr Cornell West as a Keynote speaker for this year’s Changemakers: Resisting Hopelessness, Shaping Our Future Through Love! This event will take […]

    Free
  • Santa Cruz Cinema Takeover Showing: Mandalorian & Grogu

    Santa Cruz Cinema 1405 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, United States

    The Force is strong with this one. Whether you’re a Jedi or a Bounty Hunter, join us on Thursday, May 21 at 8 p.m. for another Santa Cruz Cinema Takeover! […]

  • Something held by poetry

    Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz, United States

    In this intimate workshop, UC Santa Cruz students, faculty, and staff are invited into conversation with poets Ronaldo V. Wilson and Terri Witek. Something held by poetry is programmed for Wilson’s multimedia exhibition, there are no words, but melodies, currently on view at the IAS. RSVP is required. Ronaldo V. Wilson is a poet, interdisciplinary artist, […]

  • Opening Reception: Envisioning Health for All Photo Exhibit!

    Please join us for an Opening Reception of two student photo exhibits, focusing on health justice.  Students across all divisions, undergrad or grad, visually explore global and community health. Photography is a powerful way to represent our care and concern for health justice beyond the university. Exhibit will be held in conjunction with “Between Two […]

  • Volunteer Workday at the UCSC Farm

    UCSC Farm 152 Farm Rd, Santa Cruz, CA

    Spend a morning working at the UCSC Farm in the Community Herb Garden, a BIPOC-centered garden space committed to uplifting knowledge of herbal medicine with fellow volunteers and Center for Agroecology […]

  • The Creative Collective student arts event

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

    The Creative Collective is a multidisciplinary student arts event designed to showcase and elevate the diverse creative work produced at UCSC. This event highlights student talent that often remains underrecognized while fostering a stronger sense of community among creatives by bringing together student artists across disciplines and colleges to showcase the collective creativity at UCSC! […]

  • ECE Seminar: Hamid Jafarbiglu

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

    Presenter: Hamid Jafarbiglu, Agricultural Technology Evaluator, Big Idea Ventures Description: TBA Bio: Hamid Jafarbiglu is a researcher specializing in remote sensing, spectral analysis, and machine learning for agricultural systems. His work focuses on enhancing food safety, crop monitoring, and precision decision-making in high-value specialty crops. Dr. Jafarbiglu earned his Ph.D. in Biological Systems Engineering from […]

  • Harsh, B. (CSE) – SUPERSCALAR, MULTIPLE TAKEN BRANCH PREDICTOR

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

    This work addresses improvements in branch prediction mechanism to support high perfor- mance processors. The state of the art aims to balance the prediction latency and prediction accuracy using multi level correcting predictors . Prior published work focusses on scalar designs and prediction accuracy improvement for hard to predict branches employing tailor made, non generic […]

  • Castro, S. (CSE) – Agentic AI for Security: Adversarial Foundations for Autonomous Cyber Operations

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

    Autonomous Cyber Operations (ACO) agents promise effective security automation with minimal human intervention, yet their deployment raises three interconnected challenges: agents must be realistic (reproducing diverse attacker sophistication), secure (preventing autonomy from becoming an attack surface), and feasible (safely replicating human behavior at full autonomy). We argue that these three properties are requirements for ACO […]

  • Liu, P. (CM) – Reimagining Workplace Concern Reporting: From Emotional Harm to Co-Designed Futures

    Virtual Event

    Workplace concern reporting infrastructure, including human resources (HR) portals, grievance procedures, and whistleblower hotlines, is the formal channel through which employees in most organizations raise concerns about harassment, discrimination, and retaliation. Yet existing research consistently finds that these systems fail the employees they are meant to protect: reports stall, concerns get filtered, retaliation occurs, and […]

  • Test Anxiety Workshop for International Students

    Virtual Event

    Test Anxiety Workshop Facilitated by Jen Emmett, MA (Counseling & Psychological Services) Date: May 26, 2026 Time: 1:30 – 2:30 pm Zoom link: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/6299323184?pwd=n8SrOCp6zqZHgSjNnlOZrLUjaptSJt.1 Do you freeze up during exams? You know this feeling: you worked hard all quarter and studied for the final, but suddenly your mind is blank. Learn practical, effective strategies for managing […]

  • The Deep Read: The Literature and Poetics of Fungi Salon

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

    Join us for a salon-style event at the Hay Barn on campus where we will hold a salon focused on the literary and poetic influence of fungi and its relation to Entangled Life. The salon will feature Professors Hannah Cole (Assistant Professor of Literature at UC Santa Cruz), Brenda Hillman (Professor Emerita of Poetry at Saint Mary’s […]

  • Baskaran, D. (CM) – More than Just Fun: Exploring Meaningful Play, Communities of Play, and Relatedness of Play

    Virtual Event

    Play is often seen as a form of entertainment, leisure, or childhood development. However, it also acts as a meaningful experience that shapes how people connect with others and interact with the world around them throughout their lives. Prior work on meaningful play and communities of play has mainly focused on individual experiences and participation, […]

  • Tu, H. (CSE) – From Evaluation to Adaptation: Building Reliable Multimodal Intelligence

    Virtual Event

    Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are rapidly becoming general-purpose AI systems, yet their capabilities are advancing faster than our ability to evaluate, improve, and validate their reliability in realistic use. Standard benchmarks mainly measure in-distribution final-answer accuracy, leaving critical gaps in safety, robustness, fine-grained reasoning evaluation, and reliability in real-world agentic settings. My research proposes […]

  • FINS: Fisheries Insights Narratives and Stories seminar series featuring Lisa Uttal

    Ocean Health Building McAllister Way, Santa Cruz, CA

    Please join us for the final talk in the FINS: Fisheries Insights Narratives and Stories seminar series featuring Lisa Uttal giving her talk, “Science Unlocked: Translating Research into Public Stewardship”.

    Preceding the talk please join us for a networking coffee hour (snacks provided) and a student-only lunch after the talk.

  • CSE Colloquium – Learning to Image: Computational Microscopy for Dynamic Systems

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

    Presenter: Laura Waller, UC Berkeley Abstract: Computational imaging jointly designs hardware and algorithms to push beyond the classical limits of imaging, enabling measurement of new quantities (e.g. 3D, phase, and super-resolution) with simple, inexpensive hardware. These approaches have already transformed consumer photography; our goal is to achieve a similar transformation in scientific microscopy. In this […]

    Free
  • Film Screening—Let the City Speak: The Sonic Journey of Quetzal—Arts Dean’s Speaker Series

    Audiences are invited to Let the City Speak: The Sonic Journey of Quetzal—a conversation and panel discussion with filmmaker Akira Boch and Quetzal members Martha Gonzalez and Quetzal Flores. Introduced by Interim Dean and Professor of Film and Digital Media Lawrence Andrews. Conversation and panel discussion with UCSC Professors Russell Rodriguez and Felicity Amaya Schaeffer (4:00–6:00 […]

    FREE and open to the public