• Alumni Awards Celebration

    University Center University Center, Santa Cruz, CA

    UC Santa Cruz recognizes and honors those who have demonstrated outstanding professional achievements, made distinct contributions to society and UC Santa Cruz, and have embodied the values and spirit of the University.

    $75
  • Slugs Campout

    Upper East Field

    Adventure Rec warmly welcome UCSC students to join the 5th annual Campus Campout on the Upper East Field! Friday, September 26, 6:30pm – Saturday, September 27, 9:00am.

  • Fall Harvest Welcome

    UCSC Farm 152 Farm Rd, Santa Cruz, CA

    Join the American Indian Resource Center, People of Color Sustainability Collective, UCSC Agroecology, and the Sustainability Office for a day of fun at the Farm Center! This Fall Harvest Welcome […]

  • Festival of Monsters: Oh, the Horror!

    Bookshop Santa Cruz

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

    Registration Required; FREE and open to the public
  • Festival of Monsters: Artist Cole Lemke

    Atlantis Fantasyworld

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

    FREE and open to the public
  • Trans & Queer Fall Mixer

    Porter/Kresge Dining Hall 411 Porter-Kresge Rd, Santa Cruz, CA

    The Trans & Queer Fall Mixer is UCSC’s annual welcome event for new and returning students. Join us to learn more about the Lionel Cantú Queer Resource Center and to […]

  • OLLI at UCSC Sunday Speaker Series

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

    Julie James, Founder Jewel Theatre, presents “Jewel Theater Company: Behind the Curtain” Hosted by OLLI at UCSC (Osher Lifelong Learning Institute). Public invited to join OLLI for a social hour and presentation. […]

  • ECE 290 Seminar: Biohybrid Electronics Using Extracellular Electron Transfer

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

    Presenter: Ben Keitz, Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin Description: Qualities exhibited by living systems, including self-regulation, self-healing, morphology control, and environmental responsiveness, are highly attractive for sensing and […]

  • CM Seminar – “Forty-Four Esolangs: The Art of Esoteric Code”

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

    Presented by: Daniel Temkin Description: Software art is widely accepted, but can programming languages themselves be art? The new book Forty-Four Esolangs makes this argument, collecting work by a single […]

  • AM Seminar: Sampling-Based Adaptive Rank Integrators for Multi-scale Kinetic Models.

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

    Presenter: Professor Jingmei Qiu, University of Delaware   Description: In this talk, we introduce a sampling-based semi-Lagrangian adaptive rank (SLAR) method, which leverages a cross approximation strategy—also known as CUR or pseudo-skeleton […]

  • Screening: Cracking the Code

    Landmark’s Del Mar Theatre

    Please join us for a public screening of “Cracking the Code: Phil Sharp and the Biotech Revolution” at the Landmark Theater on Monday, October 20.

  • CITRIS Aviation Prize Information Session

    Join us for this virtual info session on the 2025–26 CITRIS Aviation Prize, an exciting multi-campus student competition inviting teams to design innovative solutions for the future of air mobility across […]

  • Joshua McFadden, Six Seasons of Pasta

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

    Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes James Beard Award-winning author Joshua McFadden for a discussion and signing of his highly anticipated new cookbook Six Seasons of Pasta. In his follow-up to Six Seasons: A […]

    $48
  • CSE Colloquium – The C++11 Concurrency Memory Model: Remaining Challenges

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

    Presenter: Hans Boehm, Google Abstract: C++11 extended the language to include threads, defining a concurrency memory model to specify the semantics of shared variables, including “atomic” variables that can be […]

  • Enoughness in the Age of Comparison

    What does “enough” look like in your life—and who gets to decide? In a world that constantly pushes us to do, earn, and be more, this webinar invites you to […]

    Free
  • Penumbra de la memoria: Brown Bag with Maya Scherr-Willson

    Huerta Center Conference Room (Casa Latina) 641 Merrill Rd, Santa Cruz,, CA

    During this presentation, Maya Scherr-Willson (PhD Student in the Film and Media Department) will show material and reflect on insights from a research trip that laid the groundwork for Penumbra de la memoria, a feature documentary to be shot this summer. The project reunites eight women fifty years after they were held as political prisoners together […]