• Road Trip! Light in the American West, from Baja to the Yukon

    Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery 11 Cowell Service Rd, Santa Cruz, CA

    The photographs in this exhibition, made between 2004 and 2025, span across the American West from the Baja California Peninsula in Mexico to The Yukon territory in Canada. Paul Schoellhamer’s (Cowell ‘69) color photographs invite us to travel with him and reflect on our relationship to land, the light that shapes it, and the freedom […]

    Free
  • Harvest Meal

    College Nine and John R. Lewis Dining Hall

    Staying on campus for fall break? Join us for the annual Harvest Meal! Brought to you by Dining Services and the Dean of Students Office. Thursday, November 27 1–4 p.m. College Nine/John R. Lewis Dining Hall Registration required by Monday, November 24. REGISTER HERE All students, faculty, staff, and their guests are invited to attend. […]

  • Rainbowsgiving

    Cantu Queer Center Crown Lane, Santa Cruz, CA

    The Cantu Queer Center is excited to host our 4th annual Rainbowsgiving, a community meal for folks who would like an alternative and inclusive gathering for Thanksgiving / 4th Thursday in November.   Our hope is to provide a space for folks to connect with others in an affirming, celebratory gathering in which they can be who […]

  • Operation Unplug! Pledge to Leave Campus Sustainability this Winter Break

    UCSC Energy Management and the Sustainability Office are leading the first annual “Operation Unplug” campaign to conserve energy (and reduce greenhouse gas emissions) during winter break. Before leaving your residence hall, apartment, or office, please unplug any fridges or minifridges, computers and/or monitors, power strips, and all other energy intensive appliances or equipment! Take the pledge and/or upload […]

  • Road Trip! Light in the American West, from Baja to the Yukon

    The photographs in this exhibition, made between 2004 and 2025, span across the American West from the Baja California Peninsula in Mexico to The Yukon territory in Canada. Paul Schoellhamer’s (Cowell ‘69) color photographs invite us to travel with him and reflect on our relationship to land, the light that shapes it, and the freedom […]

    Free
  • Operation Unplug! Pledge to Leave Campus Sustainability this Winter Break

    UCSC Energy Management and the Sustainability Office are leading the first annual “Operation Unplug” campaign to conserve energy (and reduce greenhouse gas emissions) during winter break. Before leaving your residence hall, apartment, or office, please unplug any fridges or minifridges, computers and/or monitors, power strips, and all other energy intensive appliances or equipment! Take the pledge and/or upload […]

  • Road Trip! Light in the American West, from Baja to the Yukon

    The photographs in this exhibition, made between 2004 and 2025, span across the American West from the Baja California Peninsula in Mexico to The Yukon territory in Canada. Paul Schoellhamer’s (Cowell ‘69) color photographs invite us to travel with him and reflect on our relationship to land, the light that shapes it, and the freedom […]

    Free
  • Operation Unplug! Pledge to Leave Campus Sustainability this Winter Break

    UCSC Energy Management and the Sustainability Office are leading the first annual “Operation Unplug” campaign to conserve energy (and reduce greenhouse gas emissions) during winter break. Before leaving your residence hall, apartment, or office, please unplug any fridges or minifridges, computers and/or monitors, power strips, and all other energy intensive appliances or equipment! Take the pledge and/or upload […]

  • Dried Wreath Workshop

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

    Learn how to create beautiful, long-lasting dried flower holiday wreaths with instructor Beth Benjamin. She will demonstrate the mechanics of putting everything together and will have a couple examples to guide your inspiration. Personal artistic style is highly encouraged! You’ll be able to choose from a wide selection of dried materials from the UCSC Farm […]

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  • Operation Unplug! Pledge to Leave Campus Sustainability this Winter Break

    UCSC Energy Management and the Sustainability Office are leading the first annual “Operation Unplug” campaign to conserve energy (and reduce greenhouse gas emissions) during winter break. Before leaving your residence hall, apartment, or office, please unplug any fridges or minifridges, computers and/or monitors, power strips, and all other energy intensive appliances or equipment! Take the pledge and/or upload […]

  • Road Trip! Light in the American West, from Baja to the Yukon

    The photographs in this exhibition, made between 2004 and 2025, span across the American West from the Baja California Peninsula in Mexico to The Yukon territory in Canada. Paul Schoellhamer’s (Cowell ‘69) color photographs invite us to travel with him and reflect on our relationship to land, the light that shapes it, and the freedom […]

    Free
  • AM Seminar: Denoising: A Powerful Building Block for Imaging, Inverse Problems and Machine Learning

    Virtual Event

    Presenter: Peyman Milanfar, Distinguished Scientist, Google Description: Denoising, the process of reducing random fluctuations in a signal to emphasize essential patterns, has been a fundamental problem of interest since the dawn of modern scientific inquiry. Recent denoising techniques, particularly in imaging, have achieved remarkable success, nearing theoretical limits by some measures. Yet, despite tens of […]

  • Operation Unplug! Pledge to Leave Campus Sustainability this Winter Break

    UCSC Energy Management and the Sustainability Office are leading the first annual “Operation Unplug” campaign to conserve energy (and reduce greenhouse gas emissions) during winter break. Before leaving your residence hall, apartment, or office, please unplug any fridges or minifridges, computers and/or monitors, power strips, and all other energy intensive appliances or equipment! Take the pledge and/or upload […]

  • Women’s Basketball Fundraiser at Woodstock’s

    Woodstock’s Pizza 710 Front St, Santa Cruz, CA

    Support UCSC Women’s Basketball! Join us at Woodstock’s Pizza on Dec. 2 from noon – 9 p.m. for a delicious way to give back! How to participate: Just mention the Women’s Basketball fundraiser when ordering in person or use code UCSCWBALL for online orders. Why it matters: 20% of all proceeds from your purchase will […]

  • Gingerbread House Decorating

    Chat with Merrill Provost Aims McGuinness and friends while decorating a gingerbread house.

    Create the house of your sweet dreams using the provided materials – perhaps you’ll win a small prize.

  • UC Santa Cruz Comprehensive Habitat Conservation Plan Informational Webinar

    Please join us to learn more about the UC Santa Cruz Comprehensive Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP).  The Campus Planning Department is hosting an upcoming informational webinar about the proposed Comprehensive Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP) for the Main Residential Campus, Westside Research Park and the Coastal Science Campus on Tuesday, December 2, 2025. The informational webinar will provide information to the campus […]

    Free
  • Megha Majumdar – A Guardian and a Thief

    Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Megha Majumdar (A Burning) who will share her electrifying new novel that has recently been long-listed for the National Book Award and received starred reviews from Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, and Booklist. A Guardian and a Thief, a piercing and propulsive tour de force, is set in a near-future Kolkata, India, ravaged by climate change and […]