• Go Bananas! Carnival

    Upper East Field

    Get ready to turn the field yellow! Presented by the Division of Student Affairs and Success Leadership and Involvement Team Join us for the ultimate end-of-year bash as we celebrate […]

  • Lavender Graduation Celebration

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

    For over 20 years, The Lionel Cantú Queer Resource Center has proudly honored the accomplishments of graduating students at UCSC.  At the annual Lavender Graduation Celebration, graduates of all academic levels and programs are celebrated in a uniquely queer way.   Graduating students receive a lavender or rainbow stole in addition to enjoying refreshments, music, and […]

  • The Deep Read – A Conversation with Merlin Sheldrake

    Upper Quarry Amphitheater 15 McLaughlin Drive, Santa Cruz, CA

    Join us for a free, public conversation with British mycologist and author, Merlin Sheldrake, at UC Santa Cruz’s Quarry Amphitheater on May 31, 2026. He’ll discuss his New York Times bestseller, Entangled […]

  • AM Seminar: Using Math and Experiments to Study the Control of Cell Metabolism

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

    Presenter: Denis Titov, Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley Description: Cells run thousands of chemical reactions simultaneously, and these reactions must be precisely controlled—like a thermostat that prevents overheating. When […]

  • International Grad End-of-Year Celebration

    Graduate Student Commons 420 Hagar Drive, Santa Cruz, CA

    What a remarkable year it has been for our international graduate community! To celebrate your hard work and achievements, ISSP and the International Grad Peer Mentors invite you to join […]

  • Discover Bioinformatics: Data, Biology & Innovation

    Silicon Valley Campus 3175 Bowers Avenue, Santa Clara, CA, United States

    Lead the next wave of innovation in life sciences and data As biotechnology and data analytics converge, the demand for professionals who can interpret complex biological data and drive discovery […]

  • Global Cafe: Slug Celebrations 2026

    Classroom Unit Classroom Unit, Santa Cruz, CA, Select a Country:

    Hi everyone! As the Spring quarter winds down, International Student Services and Programming (ISSP) and Global Learning invite you to our final gathering of the year: Slug Celebrations 2026. Join us to wrap up the […]

  • Bi-weekly GenAI Meetup at UC Santa Cruz

    Bi-weekly GenAI Meetup at UC Santa Cruz
    E2-506 Build 2, Baskin Engineering, Santa Cruz, United States

    We are excited to invite you to the second session of the GenAI Meetup at UC Santa Cruz, which will be held on Wednesday, May 20, 2026, at 3:15 PM in E2-506. This session will feature a student talk and demo by Akhilesh Thite, a Master’s student, on local LLMs in the PeerSky Browser. To describe the session in the […]

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  • Kordonowy, S. (CS) – The Role of Circuits in Near-Term Quantum Computation

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

    As quantum computing transitions from theory to practice, understanding which algorithms suit near-term devices becomes critical. Current quantum computers are severely constrained by limited qubit counts, short coherence times, and […]

  • Week 10: De-Stress Event

    Cowell Courtyard Santa Cruz, CA 95064

    Need a break before finals? Join the Center for Leadership and Involvement for our Week 10 De-Stress Event. Take a moment away from studying to clear your head, recharge, and […]

  • Exhibit Opening! “Ideas to Postpone the End of the World”: Artists Books and Archives towards Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve

    McHenry Library 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, CA

    Join us on on Thursday, June 4th from 2:00–3:00pm for Ideas to Postpone the End of the World: Artists Books and Archives toward Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve, a pop-up exhibition curated by MFA student SeeVa Dawne Kitslis! Just a sliver of the wonderful artist book collection at Special Collections & Archives at UC Santa Cruz […]

  • Imlau Dagostini, J. (CSE) – Intent-Driven Orchestration for Scientific Computing

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

    The growing complexity of high-performance computing (HPC) systems poses a fundamental challenge for domain scientists, whose primary objective is to obtain scientifically valid results rather than to optimize resource utilization. […]