• Optional Practical Training (OPT) Workshop

    Zoom

    Optional Practical Training (OPT) workshops are MANDATORY for all F-1 students who will apply for OPT, and you MUST have attended the OPT workshop within 9 months of applying for OPT. You must attend the full workshop to receive credit. Be sure to arrive on time and stay until the end, or you will not receive credit […]

  • International Student Orientation Make-Up Session

    Virtual Event

    Greetings, New International Students! This session is designed for all new F-1 and J-1 international students that were not able to attend the in-person orientation. During this make-up session, you will meet Global Engagement staff and learn about campus resources to support your studies and success as a Banana Slug. Please join our mandatory Orientation […]

  • Miriam Pawel – California Dreams

    Bookshop Santa Cruz

    Bookshop Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute welcome Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Miriam Pawel for a reading and signing of her new book California Dreams: The Making and Remaking of the University of California—an epic story of one of the world’s elite public universities, its sweeping social impact, and hopeful lessons about endurance in troubled times. […]

  • Slugs Campout

    Slug Start 2026-27
    Upper East Field

    5th Annual Slugs Campout Have you ever wanted to camp under the stars overnight after enjoying s’mores, hot chocolate, and smiles around a cozy campfire? UCSC students are invited to join Adventure Rec and the DSAS Center for Leadership and Involvement for the fifth annual Slugs Campout on Friday, Oct. 2, at the Upper East […]

  • Free Guided Tour of the UCSC Farm

    UCSC Farm 152 Farm Rd, Santa Cruz, CA

    Take a free, guided tour of the 30-acre organic UCSC Farm. Visitors can enjoy touring the organically managed greenhouses, hand-worked garden beds, orchards, row crop fields, and children’s garden, while learning about the history of the site and the basic concepts of organic farming and gardening. Perched on a meadow near the campus entrance, the […]

  • Make Your Resume Awesome!

    Career Success Student Lounge (125 Hahn) 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Does your resume need a little help? Are you unsure about where to start, or about how to make your resume absolutely fantastic? Join us for this 30-minute workshop to learn about cutting-edge resume best practices, followed by an optional 30 minutes of “resume work time” where you can meet individually with a coach to […]

  • CM Seminar: Speaker – Yung-Ju (Stanley) Chang “Building Intelligence Around Limited Human Attention: Our Research Trajectory Toward Attention-Aware Agentic System”

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

    Presenter: Yung-Ju (Stanley) Chang, Professor, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU) Description: Human attention has become an increasingly scarce resource in everyday digital life. People are constantly exposed to notifications, messages, news updates, social media content, and AI-generated information, all competing for limited attentional capacity. In this talk, I will share our research trajectory around […]

  • Environmental Studies Seminar Series | Exit Talk: Geospatial Optimization of California’s Organic Waste Diversion System: Transportation, Compliance, and Infrastructure Planning

    Interdisciplinary Sciences Building 7487 Red Hill Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    In person and via Zoom (Meeting ID: 978 5545 8946, Passcode: 454736).  If you are unable to stream the talk live and need to access a recorded version, please contact Stacy Philpott at sphilpot@ucsc.edu. A UC Santa Cruz email address is required to access the recording. Host: Elliott Campbell Speaker: Siyu Luo, UC Santa Cruz, […]

  • Join the 2026–2027 Practical Activism Conference Planning Team

    The Practical Activism Conference Planning Team offers University of California, Santa Cruz students a rewarding experience to gain community organizing skills, build professional development, and create lasting memories through team-building. Practical Activism is an annual, student-led social justice conference, and organizers are seeking passionate students to join the planning committee for the 24th annual event […]

  • SBIR/STTR Basics Workshop for UCSC Researchers & Innovators

    Virtual Event

    Are you developing a technology, scientific discovery, or innovation with commercial potential at UC Santa Cruz? Join us for a virtual workshop on SBIR/STTR Basics, designed specifically for UC Santa Cruz faculty, researchers, postdocs, graduate students, and campus entrepreneurs. Learn how to secure non-dilutive federal grant funding through the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and […]

  • PyTorch Santa Cruz Meetup

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

    A community gathering of people interested in PyTorch and the projects that use it – not an official PyTorch organization. Sponsored by Red Hat and Univ. of California Santa Cruz

    Free
  • Building Authentic Connections

    Physical Sciences Building Physical Sciences Building, Santa Cruz, CA

    Join Career Success to chat about what it means to get to know other people in a new setting, and how to develop your conversation skills to build meaningful connections. At the end of this workshop, you will have the strategies to support you in navigating introductions with new people, and will gain confidence in […]

  • International Lounge Grand Opening

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

    You’re invited to join Global Engagement for the grand opening of its new International Lounge! The International Lounge is a space dedicated to supporting our internationally-minded community including our students, scholars, employees, and more. Our grand opening will feature light refreshments and a look into the new space. Stop on by for a nice treat […]

  • AIRC and PoCSC Fall Open House

    Cardiff House 114 Carriage House Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    Join the American Indian Resource Center (AIRC) and People of Color Sustainability Collective (PoCSC) for our Fall Open House at the Cardiff House! We’re opening the doors of the Cardiff House […]