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    Victor ‘Marka27’ Quiñonez: Ni de Aquí, Ni de Allá

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

    Organized in partnership with the Center for Art and Advocacy, located in Brooklyn, New York, Ni de Aquí, Ni de Allá (Not From Here, Not From There) by multidisciplinary artist Victor ‘Marka27’ Quiñonez features a wide range of artworks  that issue a bold declaration of dual belonging, including altars, an elaborately immersive botanica, paintings referencing […]

  • NTW 26 – Cookie & Mementos

    Academic Resources Center (ARC) 408 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    You’re Invited! Come join us in celebrating National Transfer Week 2026 at our Cookies and Mementos event. Location: Academic Resource Center (ARC), Room 216 (upstairs). Come grab a cookie, create a memento, and have a chance at winning one of our giveaways.

  • UC Santa Cruz logo and banana slug with the words Career Success Peer Coaching

    Drop-in Career Success Peer Coaching Across Campus – McHenry

    McHenry Library 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, CA

    Stop by the Career Success Drop-ins and get professional advice from our Peer Coaches – now available across campus! 📝 Peers will rotate between McHenry and the Science & Engineering Library courtyards from Week 4 through Week 10 this quarter. Drop in for resume and cover letter support, job searching advice, grad school prep, and […]

  • Please join our Wiki-a-thon to support BIPOC Scientists and Engineers! Cartoon of a black woman with a laptop.

    Wiki-a-thon to support BIPOC Scientists and Engineers

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

    No experience necessary! We will provide a list of scientists who don’t yet have pages, or you can come up with your own. The event will begin with a short training on how to edit Wikipedia, followed by time to write your own article on a scientist, engineer, or technologist of your choice.

    Free
  • Students taking notes

    Grad School 101: Should You Apply and When?

    Physical Sciences Building Physical Sciences Building, Santa Cruz, CA

    Join us to explore how to decide if graduate school is right for you and the factors to consider in choosing a program. You will learn about the application process and tips to be a strong applicant. Register on Handshake. We will provide captions for the presentation. If you have disability-related needs, please contact the […]

  • Grad Path Week: Exchange & Faculty/Staff Mixer

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

    Join us for an informal social mixer connecting our international exchange students with UCSC faculty, staff, and current graduate students. This is a relaxed, friendly space for students to chat about prospective graduate programs, learn about research opportunities, ask about the application process, and hear firsthand what it’s like to pursue graduate study at UCSC—all […]

  • image of woman on a porch

    Rioters: Unruly Images and Freedom Experiments with Patrícia Freitas

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

    The Institute of the Arts and Sciences invites you to a screening of three short films by Patrícia Freitas about women and incarceration in Brazil, followed by a conversation with the filmmaker. Fleeing Firminas features moments of women inside the Women’s Penal Complex of Salvador in Bahia, Brazil participating in the creative writing workshops . […]

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    An Evening with Dr. Samuel Waymon — The Amazing Nina Simone (Venue Change)

    Digital Arts Research Center 407 McHenry Rd, Santa Cruz, CA

    UC Santa Cruz, in collaboration with The African Connections Research and Education Fund, Inc., presents two very special evenings with Dr. Samuel Waymon Award-winning composer, actor, lecturer, arranger and brother of the legendary Nina Simone Free film screenings and discussions Thursday, October 22, 2026 at 7:00 p.m Digital Arts Research Center (DARC), Room 108 “The […]

  • person weighing produce

    Produce Pop-Up

    Produce Pop-Up

    Produce Pop-Up is a twice-weekly organic farmstand open to all members of the UC Santa Cruz community. The program is dedicated to increasing access to fresh, healthy, and affordable organic produce, with offerings sourced from the UCSC Farm and other local organic growers. Academic year hours and locations: Beginning Oct. 2 Wednesdays: 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. […]

  • BLOOD Drive - UCSC Porter College

    Porter College & Stanford Donor Center Blood Drive

    Porter Hitchcock Lounge 411 Porter-Kresge Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    For all of the advances in modern medicine, there is still no substitute for Whole Blood donations. One single donation can save three lives. Whole blood needed planned or emergency surgeries (inc. childbirth). Red blood cells to help a patient suffering from chronic anemia or iron deficiency. Platelets to help in the recovery of chemo-therapy […]

  • Learning Support Services (LSS) Successful Slug Workshops!

    Time Management

    Successful Slug Workshops
    Academic Resources Center (ARC) 408 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    In this workshop, you will: Learn the ways you can manage your time and avoid procrastination/burnout. The Successful Slug Workshop series, hosted by Learning Support Services Peer Coaches, are open to all UCSC undergraduate students and focus on academic skills and tools to support your success as a student. At each workshop, you will be […]

  • CSE Colloquium: Relational Attention for Data-Efficient Language Modeling

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

    Title: Relational Attention for Data-Efficient Language Modeling Presenter: Adrian Brasoveanu, UCSC Linguistics (Joint work with Ece Takmaz and Jakub Dotlačil) Abstract: We present Relational BabyLM, a system submission to the BabyLM 2026 challenge that combines two cognitively motivated inductive biases in a single decoder-only Transformer. Architecturally, we replace standard self-attention with a Dual Attention Transformer (DAT), […]

    Free

  • Performing Anarchive

    Colligan Theater 1010 River St, Santa Cruz, United States

    Through motion capture, immersive sound, and real-time digital systems, CHARI performs alongside Harriet, a life-scale avatar carrying a living archive of Black cultural memory. Together, they move through fragments of sound, image, and memory, shaping the world around them as the performance unfolds. Performing Anarchive brings body and technology together in a live exploration of […]

  • Tour of Forest Health Treatments in Upper Campus on Saturday October 24th

    Barn Theater 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA

    Tour Overview: Explore Forest Health in Action  Take a guided walk through the UC Santa Cruz Upper Campus Demonstration Site to learn about the Wildfire Vegetation Management Plan (WVMP) and forest resilience treatments completed through a CAL FIRE Forest Health Grant. Discover how techniques like thinning, handwork, mechanical treatment, mastication, and chipping work together to […]

    Free
  • a person holding another in a rescue carry

    Carlos Motta: When Time Stands Still

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

    Carlos Motta’s When Time Stands Still, the artist’s second solo show with the IAS, features new and recent installations, videos, and sculptures highlighting the artist’s preoccupation with the historical and aesthetic productions of difference and marginalization that shape the present. The selection of artworks in the exhibition explore the unsettling experience of living in a time that seems […]

  • close up of face painted on pyramid of ice coolers

    Victor ‘Marka27’ Quiñonez: Ni de Aquí, Ni de Allá

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

    Organized in partnership with the Center for Art and Advocacy, located in Brooklyn, New York, Ni de Aquí, Ni de Allá (Not From Here, Not From There) by multidisciplinary artist Victor ‘Marka27’ Quiñonez features a wide range of artworks  that issue a bold declaration of dual belonging, including altars, an elaborately immersive botanica, paintings referencing […]

  • One Night Only—A Faculty Recital

    Music Center Recital Hall 400 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    UC Santa Cruz Music Dept. faculty Michael McGushin, Luke Shepherd, Emily Sinclair, and Sheila Willey perform art songs, arias, and selections from musical theater, with proceeds supporting the UCSC Opera program. 

    Free – $12
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    Make & Take Dried Floral Pumpkin Workshop

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

    Learn to make a beautiful and long-lasting dried floral and succulent pumpkin that can be used as a stunning centerpiece in this “make and take” workshop, just in time for the holidays. Instructor Amber Pearsall will demonstrate the mechanics of putting everything together and will have a couple examples to guide your inspiration. Personal artistic […]

    $60
  • a person holding another in a rescue carry

    Carlos Motta: When Time Stands Still

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

    Carlos Motta’s When Time Stands Still, the artist’s second solo show with the IAS, features new and recent installations, videos, and sculptures highlighting the artist’s preoccupation with the historical and aesthetic productions of difference and marginalization that shape the present. The selection of artworks in the exhibition explore the unsettling experience of living in a time that seems […]