• 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
  • Free Guided Tour of the UCSC Farm

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

    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 […]

  • ECE 290 Seminar: Operational Cybersecurity of Modern Power Systems

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

    Presenter: Dr. Daniel Arnold, Lead Power Systems Engineer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory   Description: The adoption of new types of generation and loads, such as data centers, small modular reactors, and […]

  • AI Frontier: Data, Agents & Robots at TechWeek SF

    Join us for an immersive SF Tech Week experience hosted by the Silicon Valley AI Pioneer Club and UC Santa Cruz GenAI Center — where AI builders, investors, innovators and […]

    free
  • Printing Party in McHenry Library

    McHenry Library 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, CA

    On Monday, 10/6, Special Collections and Archives is bringing our BookBeetle (a mini replica Gutenberg-era common press) into the 3rd floor hallway of McHenry Library for a printing party! Participants […]

  • CM Seminar – Tracing and Shaping Paths in Design Space

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

    Presenter: Max Kreminski   About: It’s notoriously difficulty to evaluate interfaces intended to support creative work – but as software creative tools proliferate, the importance of understanding whether and how […]

  • Tracing and Shaping Paths in Design Space

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

    Presented by Max Kreminski Description: It’s notoriously difficulty to evaluate interfaces intended to support creative work – but as software creative tools proliferate, the importance of understanding whether and how these […]

  • AM Seminar: Applications of the Flow-Density Relationship in Traffic Modeling

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

    Presenter: Dr. Martha Shott, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Sonoma State University   Description: Many mathematical models of traffic are macroscopic in nature, meaning that they model the relationship between average speed, […]

  • Familiar Touch Screening

    Communications Building 7487 Red Hill Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    This is a public screening and discussion of FAMILIAR TOUCH. Ruth (Kathleen Chalfant), a retired cook, prepares breakfast in her sunny and cozy kitchen — a dish she seems to […]

    Complimentary ticket for UCSC students
  • Familiar Touch Screening

    Communications Building 7487 Red Hill Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    This public screening and discussion of FAMILIAR TOUCH, the debut feature by filmmaker and choreographer Sarah Friedland, follows retired cook Ruth (Kathleen Chalfant) as she navigates memory loss and mistaken identities.

    Complimentary ticket for UCSC students
  • US – India: Normalization or Reset?

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

    The US–India relationship stands at a crossroads balancing strategic pragmatism with shared democratic values. Recent tensions over trade, tariffs, and technology have raised questions about whether the partnership is being […]

    Free
  • Yoga as Healing Series

    Yoga as Healing Series

    Health Center (Student Health Center) 525 McLaughlin Drive, Santa Cruz, CA

    Yoga as Healing is a 7-week program at UC Santa Cruz for students who identify as survivors of interpersonal violence. Participants are welcome to join any of the sessions, and attendance at the orientation is not required.

  • CSE Colloquium: Can Great Programmers Be Taught?

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

    Presenter: John Ousterhout, Stanford University Abstract: People have been programming computers for more than 80 years, but there is little agreement on how to design software or even what a […]

  • UCSC Community Connections Fall Gathering

    Arboretum 122 Arboretum Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    Join UC Santa Cruz Community Connections on Wednesday, October 8, for our Fall Gathering. Our first general meeting of the academic year, it’s an opportunity to meet old and new […]

  • Resume Workshop with Google

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

    Are you submitting applications for internships and full-time opportunities this semester? Join us for this resume workshop to find out how the format, structure, and detailed content of your resume […]

  • Understanding the Technical Interview Process at Google

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

    Curious of how the technical interview process at Google works? Are you gearing up for technical interviews this fall? Whether you’re Interested in their internships or full-time roles, you may […]

  • Talking Tales of the Undead

    Santa Cruz Public Library

    Exploring the ways monsters and tropes of monstrosity pervade our culture.

    FREE and open to the public
Last modified: Oct 22, 2025