• Make Your Resume Awesome!

    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 […]

  • CSE Colloquium: Enabling scalable GPU computing via efficient virtual memory systems

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

    Presenter: Hyeran Jeon, UC Merced Title: Enabling scalable GPU computing via efficient virtual memory systems Abstract: GPUs have become one of the most important accelerators of various emerging workloads. While the massive parallelism makes the GPUs one of the most favorable compute engines, the limited on-device memory capacity hinders their wider adoption. Virtual memory systems […]

  • Moss Adams x Baker Tilly Info Session

    Bay Tree Building Student Union, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Interested in a career in public accounting? Come chat with our Tax and Audit professionals about our 2026 internship opportunities and learn more about life at Moss Adams x Baker Tilly! Our 2026 internship opportunities are available for current seniors and juniors pursuing a CPA license. Stop by anytime between 11:00AM – 1:00PM and enjoy […]

  • BME 280B Seminar: Computational Precision Health & Genomic Diversity

    Physical Sciences Building Physical Sciences Building, Santa Cruz, CA

    Presenter: Dr. Alex Ioannidis, BME Assistant Professor, UCSC Description: N/A Bio: Alex Ioannidis graduated summa cum laude in Chemistry and Physics from Harvard and completed an M.Phil in Computational Biology in the Dept. of Applied Math & Theoretical Physics at Cambridge. He earned his Ph.D. in Computational & Mathematical Engineering at Stanford and M.S. in […]

  • How to Validate AI Product Ideas and Build a Defensible MVP

    Social Sciences 1 Social Sciences 1, Santa Cruz, CA

    93% of US companies plan to increase their AI investments; but 80% of AI projects fail. Countless “cool” demos crash and burn; not because the technology failed, but because they solved the wrong problem. In this lesson, we lay out a proven playbook with 5 tactical steps, each a mindset shift or critical decision point, […]

    Free
  • How to Validate AI Product Ideas and Build a Defensible MVP

    Social Sciences 1 Social Sciences 1, Santa Cruz, CA

    93% of US companies plan to increase their AI investments; but 80% of AI projects fail. Countless “cool” demos crash and burn; not because the technology failed, but because they solved the wrong problem. In this lesson, we lay out a proven playbook with 5 tactical steps, each a mindset shift or critical decision point, […]

    Free
  • Dismantling the Deportation Machine…

    Bay Tree Building Student Union, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Dismantling the Deportation Machine: A Conversation on Migration, Expulsion, and Xenophobia Join Carlos Martinez as he moderates a powerful discussion with Megan Carney, Heide Castañeda, and Gilberto Rosas on the urgent U.S. and global trends shaping the politics of migration, deportation, and xenophobia. As authoritarianism and xenophobia intensify globally, this distinguished panel will offer critical […]

    Free
  • 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
  • Environmental Health and Justice: Successes and Future Challenges

    Stevenson Event Center Stevenson Service Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    Please join us for this collaborative, interdisciplinary symposium to highlight and celebrate the important work being done in Global and Community Health at UC Santa Cruz. The symposium will feature talks on environmental determinants of health by faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates,speakers from the community,and will be headlined by environmental health luminary keynote speaker Brenda Eskenazi from UC Berkeley.

  • Envisioning HSI: Nurturing Sustainable Institutional Change

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

    Join the HSI Initiatives Team for an afternoon of reflection, collaboration, and community at UC Santa Cruz’s Fall 2025 Envisioning HSI Session. As a Hispanic-Serving Research Institution, UCSC is committed to creating sustainable systems and structures that strengthen our mission in research, teaching, and service. This session will bring together changemakers from across campus to […]

    Free
  • The NEXTies: Earth & Sea

    Seymour Marine Discovery Center 100 McAllister Way, Santa Cruz, CA

    Get ready for an unforgettable evening at our NEXTies spin off event: The NEXTies Earth: & Sea! Join us for a night of celebration, featuring delicious drinks, captivating performances, and the presentation of awards to the environmental pioneers who’ve made Santa Cruz a leader in climate resilience. From innovative waste reduction solutions to groundbreaking scientific […]

    $55 – $200
  • Movie on the Lawn

    Oakes Lower Lawn 498-898 Oakes Rd, Santa Cruz, CA

    As Slug Start continues, join us for a cozy evening under the stars on Oakes Lawn at 8 PM with a screening of Us. Kick back with free popcorn, candy, and plenty of other snacks while you enjoy the film. It’s a fun, laid-back way to relax, connect, and meet your fellow Slugs.   You […]

  • Campo-Sano Climate Action Conference

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

    Join us October 4th for a regional conference on California Farmworkers and the Environment! The conference will address the challenges of resilience amid the impacts of climate changes and the many other compounding risks farmworkers face. Free and open to the public.

    Free
  • Fall is for Planting!

    Arboretum 122 Arboretum Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    Join us on the patio at Norrie’s Gift & Garden Shop at the Arboretum & Botanic Garden. The UC Master Gardeners will host a pop-up booth to give information and answer questions about the benefits of planting in the fall and growing Mediterranean climate plants. We know how hard it is to resist a beautiful […]

  • Celebrate Sustainably: A Fall Field Day

    This school year, PoCSC is implementing a new quarterly field day program where each quarter we come together for a fun, community-bonding day of activities, food, and conversation. This series is an informal educational opportunity for the UCSC community to engage with each other while learning about different themes within environmentalism, such as inclusive sustainability.  […]

  • Celebrate Sustainably: A Fall Field Day

    Social Sciences Lawn 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz

    Celebrate sustainably at PoCSC’s Fall Field Day with food, music, and eco-friendly activities for the UCSC community.

  • Opening Celebration—Celine Grenier Retrospective Exhibition

    Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery Baskin Service Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    2025 marks Céline Grenier’s 50th graduation anniversary from the Art Department at UC Santa Cruz. This retrospective celebrates the Santa Cruz-based alumna’s vast body of work in a diverse range of media. Grenier is both inspired by the beauty of life closely examined and horrified by man’s trajectory. She works from a large mental catalog […]

    FREE and open to UCSC affiliates
  • Spotlight Santa Cruz – Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors at City Lights Theater

    Use the Banana Slug alumni promo code "SLUGS" to purchase discounted tickets to City Lights Theater Company's October 4 performance of Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors, directed by UCSC alumna Caitlin Lawrence Papp (Crown '24, M.A. '25, theater arts).   Caitlin will be available to meet the UC Santa Cruz alumni in attendance at an […]

    $40
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