• GCH190 Taskforce Showcase

    Stevenson Event Center Stevenson Service Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    Please join us in celebrating the past year’s offerings of the Global and Community Health Task Force! There will be student ambassadors presenting on each topic, along with faculty giving a sneak peek on their courses for next academic year. This will be a great way to both honor the research from this year and […]

  • Almost Alumni Celebration for ’26!

    Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk

    2026 graduates, come celebrate with us! Join us for a memorable evening at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk Aloha Terrace complete with arcade passes, live music, giveaways from your college, […]

    Free
  • Science in the Neighborhood: The earthquake problem

    Coastal Biology Building 130 McAllister Way, Santa Cruz, CA

    Earthquake prediction has simultaneously remained both the central, unsolved problem in seismology and the issue that communities care about most—especially here in Northern California. Earth & Planetary Sciences Professor Emily Brodsky will discuss what we do and do not know about when earthquakes will happen.

    Free
  • The Very Persistent Slug – AA/PI/SWANA Year-End Ceremony

    Merrill Cultural Center 200 McLaughlin Dr, Santa Cruz, CA

    Save the date and join the Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center (AA/PIRC) on Friday, June 5th from 6-9:30pm at the Merrill Cultural Center! Doors open at 5:30 p.m., with our ceremony beginning at 6 p.m. Come celebrate the graduating students who have contributed to the Asian American, Pacific Islander, and Southwest Asian & North African (AA/PI/SWANA) community at UCSC. […]

  • First Saturday Tour at the Arboretum

    Arboretum 122 Arboretum Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    First Saturday Tours are a wonderful way to introduce yourself to the Arboretum or to deepen your knowledge of the Arboretum’s plant collections. Each tour is a little different depending on the time of year, the interests of the tour guide, and the people who join in. For example, you might learn about the birds […]

  • 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 […]

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  • UCSC Jazz Big Band

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

    UCSC Jazz Big Band

    Free – $12
  • Barn Dance at the Hay Barn

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

    The UCSC Celtic Music Ensemble performs live during a beginner-friendly, gender-neutral, darn good barn dance. Attendees are invited to dance, and partners are not needed. — ADMISSION – Open admission; tickets/registration not required. – FREE and open to the public. – Donations of any amount are welcomed and appreciated to support to support live music […]

    FREE and open to UCSC affiliates
  • Get Certified in CPR, First Aid, and AED!

    Get Certified in CPR, First Aid, and AED!
    Scotts Valley Center

    Location: Scotts Valley Center Register for the training. This Adult First Aid/CPR/AED blended learning course equips you to recognize and care for various first aid breathing and cardiac emergencies involving adults. It is designed for individuals who need a certification that satisfies OSHA workplace or other regulatory requirements. This class is taught in a blended […]

  • AI Trends in Project Management

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

    Build the skills organizations need most Skilled project and program managers remain in demand across many industries as organizations seek professionals who can plan strategically, manage risks, and deliver results on time and on budget. Learn what drives successful teams and projects During this interactive online session, you’ll learn about key roles in project and […]

  • June Slugs and Steins with Distinguished Professor Andrew Fisher

    Virtual Event

    Opportunities to enhance groundwater recharge with net metering and levee setbacks As climate change, population growth, and changing land use put increasing pressure on groundwater supplies, communities are searching for smarter and more sustainable ways to manage water. One promising approach is “managed recharge” — guiding stormwater and excess surface water back into underground aquifers […]

  • Volunteer at the UCSC Arboretum

    Arboretum 122 Arboretum Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    Volunteer Information Sessions at the Arboretum Do you love gardens and gardening? The UCSC Arboretum & Botanic Garden has a wonderful community of staff, students, and volunteers, ready to welcome you. Opportunities include staffing our gift shop & retail nursery and working to care for our gardens and greenhouses.  To learn more, join us at […]

  • Shen, G. (CSE) – Library-Level Choreographic Programming

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

    Modern software increasingly relies on distributed systems to provide accessible, scalable, and reliable services. Choreographic programming brings a global perspective to distributed system development: programmers write a single program that describes the behavior of a whole system, and a compiler projects that global description into local programs run by each node. By making distributed control […]

  • Kim, C. (CSE)- Toward Adaptive Graph Processing and Fault-Tolerant Agentic Inference on Heterogeneous Distributed Systems

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

    Edge computing and distributed AI systems increasingly operate under heterogeneous resources, dynamic workloads, and frequent failures, requiring both adaptivity and fault tolerance for efficient execution. In heterogeneous edge clusters, nodes differ significantly in CPU throughput, memory capacity, and network bandwidth, while modern distributed GPU clusters supporting agentic LLM inference must recover large amounts of runtime […]

  • Research Lunch & Learn: Cayuse Animal Oversight (AO) walkthrough

    Virtual Event

    Join the IACUC staff team as they introduce Cayuse Animal Oversight (AO), our newly developed electronic system for managing IACUC submissions, reviews, and protocol oversight. This session will provide a high-level overview of key features of the new system designed to support our animal care program, including a demonstration of protocol submission workflows, committee review […]

  • What can you do with data?

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

    Data Analysts Are Still in Demand As organizations across industries rely more on data-driven decision-making, skilled data analysts continue to be highly sought after. While the job market is more competitive—especially for entry-level roles—professionals with in-demand skills like SQL, Python, data visualization, and AI-assisted analytics stand out. Your speaker Join Parthasarathy Padmanabhan, M.B.A., principal software engineer […]

  • Ruth Ozeki – The Typing Lady

    Bookshop Santa Cruz

    Bookshop welcomes Booker Prize finalist Ruth Ozeki (A Tale for the Time Being), who will share her spellbinding story collection The Typing Lady: And Other Fictions about the lives we almost lived, the people we can’t quite forget, and the stories that shape us long after the last page is turned. Ozeki will be in […]

  • SocDoc M.F.A. Thesis Screening

    Landmark’s Del Mar Theatre

    The Social Documentation M.F.A. Thesis Screening is a yearly event held by the Film and Digital Media Department. This event is part of the Social Documentation M.F.A. program, and involves second-year students presenting a 20-minute documentary film they have produced while in the program. Films are screened sequentially at the Del Mar Theater, with a […]

    FREE and open to the public