Name: OLLI at UCSC Sunday Speaker Meeting
Start: 2026-05-17T10:00:00-07:00
End: 2026-05-17T12:00:00-07:00
Location: Colleges Nine and John R. Lewis College Multi-purpose Room

May 2026
2026 Robert L. Sinsheimer Distinguished Lecture in Biology: Global Vaccines and Immunizations in a Time of Climate Change, Mega Cities, and Anti-science

May 14 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

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

Join us for an evening with Dr. Peter Hotez, a world-renowned vaccine scientist, pediatrician, and Dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine. A graduate of Yale, Cornell, and Rockefeller University, Dr. Hotez has dedicated his career to global health, co-developing low-cost COVID-19 vaccines administered to over 100 million people […]
2026 Robert L. Sinsheimer Distinguished Lecture in Biology: Global Vaccines and Immunizations in a Time of Climate Change, Mega Cities, and Anti-science

May 14 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

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

Join us for an evening with Dr. Peter Hotez, a world-renowned vaccine scientist, pediatrician, and Dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine. A graduate of Yale, Cornell, and Rockefeller University, Dr. Hotez has dedicated his career to global health, co-developing low-cost COVID-19 vaccines administered to over 100 million people […]
Flow and Friction: Media Practices Across Global Asias

May 15 @ 8:00 am – 6:00 pm

Cowell Conference Room 257 Cowell-Stevenson Road, Santa Cruz, CA

Though flow and friction have their enmeshed problematic of combined colonial and imperial mechanisms, we also believe that they can be useful concepts to think through the transnational and deimperial techniques that Global Asias can offer. Global Asias offer an expansive model to consider the imaginary or symbolic Asia as a series of diasporic interpolations […]

FREE and open to UCSC affiliates
Run Like a Slug 5k

May 15 @ 12:00 pm

Upper East Field

The UC Santa Cruz Department of Athletics and Recreation is proud to announce the second annual Run Like a Slug 5k. Banana Slugs can register here for the race. Get ready to embrace […]
Risk Services & Occupational Health’s Campus Wellness Fair

May 15 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Upper East Field

Friday, May 15, 12:00 PM -2:00 PM Where: Upper East Field The Risk Services & Occupational Health’s Campus Wellness Fair is a fun-filled event open to all students, staff, and […]
Spring Exhibitions at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences

May 15 @ 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm Spring Exhibitions at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences

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

Visit the IAS, UCSC’s premier art galleries, for our spring exhibitions. On view April 10–August 16, 2026 are three diverse and interdisciplinary shows: Libia Posada: Everything is Going Right, the […]
Demystifying Failure: The Necessity of Mistakes

May 15 @ 1:00 pm – 1:45 pm Successful Slug Workshops

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

In this workshop, you will: In this workshop, you will: Move from “failing” to “flourishing” by learning to reframe setbacks and build resilience in academia. The Successful Slug Workshop series, […]
STEM Culture Festival

Featured May 15 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

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

Join us for a celebration of UCSC’s vibrant, innovative, and diverse STEM community featuring: Musical performances Dance lessons STEM-themed drag shows Inspirational talks Student organization tabling Student-led games & activities […]
UCSC Graduate Research Symposium

May 15 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

McHenry Library 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, CA

Friday, May 15, 1:00-4:00 PM (PDT) McHenry Library | Information Commons South on the Main Floor We are delighted to invite you to the 22nd Annual Graduate Research Symposium! This event celebrates and highlights the work of UCSC graduate students in all academic divisions. Any enrolled graduate student is welcome to present either a poster, […]

FREE
2026 Graduate Research Symposium

Featured May 15 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

McHenry Library 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, CA

UCSC 22nd Annual Graduate Research Symposium Friday, May 15, 1:00-4:00 PM (PDT) McHenry Library | Information Commons South on the Main Floor This event celebrates and highlights the work of UCSC graduate students in all academic divisions. Any enrolled graduate student is welcome to present either a poster, talk, or mixed media presentation. The event is […]

FREE
Rasanblé/Rasanblaj: Call & Response

May 15 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm

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

Join us for an evening of call and response between Portsha Jefferson, dancer and artistic director of Rara Tou Limen, and artist-scholar Gina Athena Ulysse. Jefferson will offer a Haitian […]
UCSC Concert Choir

May 15 @ 7:30 pm

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

UCSC Concert Choir

Free – $12
Who Can I Run To?, by Alyssa Windom—2026 Dharma Grace Creative Writing Award and Theatrical Production

May 15 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Who Can I Run To?, by Alyssa Windom—2026 Dharma Grace Creative Writing Award and Theatrical Production

Second Stage Second Stage, Santa Cruz, CA

Through their belief in Ifá and the divine, three generations of women grow their relationships with each other and navigate living within their African diasporic identities.
Berry U-Pick at the UCSC Farm

May 16 @ 9:00 am – 12:00 pm Berry U-Pick at the UCSC Farm

UCSC Farm 152 Farm Rd, Santa Cruz, CA

Come enjoy picking your own organic strawberries and/or blueberries at the campus farm! Our delicious, organic berries will be plentiful this spring and we hope you can come enjoy the […]
Spring Exhibitions at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences

May 16 @ 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm Spring Exhibitions at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences

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

Visit the IAS, UCSC’s premier art galleries, for our spring exhibitions. On view April 10–August 16, 2026 are three diverse and interdisciplinary shows: Libia Posada: Everything is Going Right, the […]
Visualizing Abolition Screening Series: Beyond Access

May 16 @ 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm Visualizing Abolition

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

On view in the IAS Screening Room is a selection of short films curated by Visualizing Abolition Visiting Faculty Fellow Dr. Pooja Rangan. Prisons deny and censor the access of […]
Opening Celebration for Visions from Within: Resilience

May 16 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Visualizing Abolition

Santa Cruz Barrios Unidos 1817 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz, United States

Join us at Santa Cruz Barrios Unidos for the opening celebration of Visions from Within: Resilience. Visions From Within is a continued series of art exhibitions dedicated to uplifting and […]
Who Can I Run To?, by Alyssa Windom—2026 Dharma Grace Creative Writing Award and Theatrical Production

May 16 @ 7:30 pm Who Can I Run To?, by Alyssa Windom—2026 Dharma Grace Creative Writing Award and Theatrical Production

Second Stage Second Stage, Santa Cruz, CA

Through their belief in Ifá and the divine, three generations of women grow their relationships with each other and navigate living within their African diasporic identities.
La Alegria del Mariachi with guest artist Lupita Infante

May 16 @ 7:30 pm

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

UCSC Music Ensemble

Free – $12
OLLI at UCSC Sunday Speaker Meeting

May 17 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

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

Join OLLI for a social hour and a presentation with Michael Hutchinson, Distinguished Professor Emeritus,
Department of Economics at UC Santa Cruz.

Free

May 2026