• Chemistry and Biochemistry symposium

    Jack Baskin Auditorium 191 Baskin Cir, Santa Cruz, CA

    On April 25, the department will hold its Annual Chemistry Symposium. This year, we will host the Bunnett Organic Chemistry Seminar, the Fink Biomedical Chemistry Seminar, and the UCSC Phillip Crews Symposium: Powered by Chemistry, Strengthened by Discovery Science Lecture, all on the same day. In addition, we will include a lecture focused on Physical […]

  • Chemistry and Biochemistry symposium

    Jack Baskin Auditorium 191 Baskin Cir, Santa Cruz, CA

    On April 25, the department will hold its Annual Chemistry Symposium. This year, we will host the Bunnett Organic Chemistry Seminar, the Fink Biomedical Chemistry Seminar, and the UCSC Phillip Crews Symposium: Powered by Chemistry, Strengthened by Discovery Science Lecture, all on the same day. In addition, we will include a lecture focused on Physical […]

  • Artist Tour with Libia Posada

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

    We are thrilled to invite you to join Libia Posada, a multidisciplinary artist as well as a physician, for this artist-led tour of Everything is Going Right, the premiere solo exhibition of her work in the United States. With artworks influenced by her medical training, Posada will discuss how she engages the body as a […]

  • It’s California Native Plant Month at the UCSC Arboretum!

    Arboretum 122 Arboretum Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    Join us at Norrie’s Gift and Garden Shop at the UCSC Arboretum & Botanic Garden for a pop-up information booth about California’s Native Plants. Here at the Arboretum, we like to say: if you plant it, they will come, and that is a fact we have seen borne out again and again in our gardens. […]

    Free
  • Quality First Coding Contest

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

    This is a programming contest, but with a twist! Instead of scoring you based on your speed and solution accuracy, we score you based on your programming quality and solution accuracy. This means that instead of looking at how fast you can program a solution, we look at your number of compiles/runs instead.* The contestant that […]

    Free
  • CM Seminar: Edward Wang, “Inventing a New Blood Pressure Monitor”

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

    Presented by: Edward Wang Description: “What does it actually look like to invent something? In this talk, I trace the decade-long journey of turning a smartphone into a blood pressure monitor, from Seismo, which used smartphone accelerometers to measure pulse transit time, to BPClip, a dollar clip that brought calibration-free oscillometry to the fingertip, to VibroBP, which […]

  • Statistics Seminar: Active Learning for Fair and Stable Allocations

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

    Presenter: Riddhiman Bhattacharya, Postdoc, UCSC Description: We propose an active learning approach for dynamic fair resource allocation problems. In contrast to prior work that assumes full feedback from all agents […]

  • Coffee with Provost Aims

    Coffee with Provost Aims
    Merrill College Office 641 Merrill Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    Warm greetings and hot coffee are served by Provost Aims and Poppy the Merrill Chihuahua each Tuesday in April. Breakfast snacks, tea, and cocoa too.

    Stop by and say “hi”

    Free
  • LinkedIn 101: Create A Great Profile That Gets Noticed!

    Hahn Student Services Hahn Student Services, Santa Cruz, CA

    “Do I really need a LinkedIn profile to get hired?” The answer is YES! Employers and recruiters absolutely use LinkedIn to look for and research candidates. Come to this fast-paced and practical workshop to learn more about the basics of creating a LinkedIn profile that gets noticed and just might help you land your dream job!

  • Landesman Lecture

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

    This evening blends science, poetry, and storytelling to explore our deepest origins and shared humanity. Tracing the cosmic formation of the elements that make our bodies, we reflect on an ancestry older than nations, borders, and labels. Through verse and story, we connect stellar history with lived experience, inviting us to see how our many identities arise from the same ancestral matter. Together, we explore how storytelling can soften divisions, cross boundaries, and remind us that we are forged from one common origin.

    FREE and open to the public
  • Karen Tei Yamashita – Questions 27 & 28

    Bookshop Santa Cruz

    Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes acclaimed author Karen Tei Yamashita (I Hotel) to celebrate the launch of her new novel Questions 27 & 28—a masterful polyvocal history of Japanese Americans before, during, and after World War II. Yamashita will be in conversation with Alice Yang, Professor of History and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at UC Santa […]

  • FINS: Fisheries Insights Narratives and Stories seminar series featuring Dr. Steve Lindley

    Ocean Health Building McAllister Way, Santa Cruz, CA

    Please join us for the third talk in the FINS: Fisheries Insights Narratives and Stories seminar series featuring Dr. Steve Lindley giving his talk, “Science in support of salmon conservation in California”.

    Steve Lindley worked at NOAA Fisheries’ Southwest Fisheries Science Center for 29 years, retiring in 2025 as director of the Santa Cruz Laboratory and Fisheries Ecology Division, where he led the SWFSC’s salmon and groundfish research programs. A graduate of Duke University and UC Santa Barbara, Steve has broad interests in aquatic ecology, and is currently a member of the Delta Stewardship Council’s Delta Independent Science Board, the Northwest Power and Conservation Council’s Independent Scientific Advisory Board and Independent Scientific Review Group, and researcher at UC Santa Cruz

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

  • CSE Colloquium – Towards Safe and Resilient Large-scale Distributed Programming

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

    Presenter: Philipp Haller, KTH Royal Institute of Technology Abstract: Distributed programming is notoriously difficult. Not only are distributed systems concurrent, they pose additional challenges including data consistency and fault tolerance. At the same time, the share of software systems that are necessarily distributed systems is growing rapidly. As a result, too many software developers are […]

    Free
  • Office of Research Faculty Town Hall

    Virtual Event

    Please join us for an Office of Research Faculty Town Hall with VCR John MacMillan. The Town Hall will be held via zoom on Wednesday, April 29th from 12-1pm. In this Town Hall, the VCR and OR leadership will provide updates on the federal landscape, the centralization of research accounting, and compliance and PI responsibilities. […]

  • Career Success Drop-Ins at the Ethnic Resource Centers – Week 5

    Crown Provost House 660 Crown Service Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    Group Appointment Drop-in at the Ethnic Resource Centers with Career Coach & Engagement Specialist Bridge Kennedy to discuss career exploration, job search strategy, interview prep, grad school prep, or whatever’s on your mind related to your career success! If you need accommodations please email bridgekk@ucsc.edu   YOU BELONG HERE Programs and services are open to all, […]

  • Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed

    Merrill Cultural Center 200 McLaughlin Dr, Santa Cruz, CA

    Please join us as Quinn Slobodian & Ben Tarnoff discuss their new book, Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed (April, 2026). A Financial Times Most Anticipated Nonfiction Book of the Year • A Kirkus Most Anticipated Nonfiction Book of Spring 2026• A Literary Hub Most Anticipated Book of the Year A pyrotechnic examination of Elon Musk as a symptom and avatar […]

    Free – Registration link below