Name: Environmental Studies Seminar Series | Exit Talk: Geospatial Optimization of California’s Organic Waste Diversion System: Transportation, Compliance, and Infrastructure Planning
Start: 2026-10-05T13:25:00-07:00
End: 2026-10-05T14:30:00-07:00
Location: Interdisciplinary Sciences Building

September 2026
Malekos, E. (BMEB) – CRISPR screens of noncanonical ORFs uncover retroviral-derived immune regulators

September 25 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Biomedical Sciences Biomedical Sciences Building Red Hill Road, Santa Cruz, CA

Ribosome profiling has revealed thousands of noncanonical translation events across mammalian genomes, yet functional characterization has overwhelmingly focused on proliferative fitness in cancer cell lines. Here, we present a comprehensive survey of noncanonical translation in the mouse immune system and its functional consequences in macrophages. By performing a unified Ribo-seq meta-analysis across 20 public mouse […]
Earth Friendly Gardening: Protecting Wildlife & the Environment

September 27 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Join UC Master Gardeners at the UCSC Arboretum for class no. 4 of 4 that teaches you how to help protect the environment and support local wildlife.
ECE 290 Seminar: “Where The Semiconductor Industry Is Headed Over The Next 5, 10, 20 Years?”

September 28 @ 10:40 am

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

Presented by: Dr. Victor Zhirnov, Product Ideation Head @ Applied Materials Description: “Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are a primary engine of socioeconomic growth in the modern world. Electronic information processing and transmission are being further accelerated by the rapid advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The adoption of AI continues to expand at an unprecedented pace, […]
Environmental Studies Seminar Series | Lightning Talks by ENVS Faculty

September 28 @ 1:25 pm – 2:30 pm

Interdisciplinary Sciences Building 7487 Red Hill Road, Santa Cruz, CA

In person and via Zoom (Meeting ID: 978 5545 8946, Passcode: 454736). If you are unable to stream the talk live and need to access a recorded version, please contact […]
Statistics Seminar: Vecchia Approximated Bayesian Heteroskedastic Gaussian Processes

September 28 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

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

Presenter: Parul Patil, Postdoctoral Researcher, UC Santa Cruz Description: Many computer simulations are stochastic and exhibit input dependent noise. In such situations, heteroskedastic Gaussian processes (hetGPs) make ideal surrogates as […]
Latin American & Latino Studies Ph.D. Program Information Sessions

September 29 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Latin American & Latino Studies Ph.D. Program Information Sessions

Virtual Event

Learn more about the program, meet faculty and staff, and get your questions answered!
Cookies & Conversations with Provost Aims

September 29 @ 12:30 pm – 2:30 pm Cookies & Conversations with Provost Aims

Crown College Cultural Center at Merrill, Santa Cruz, CA

Join Provost Aims for a sweet treat and pleasant conversation.

Free
Heath, H. (BMEB) – Linking Altered mRNA Processing to Translational Regulation in Lung Cancer

September 29 @ 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm

Biomedical Sciences Biomedical Sciences Building Red Hill Road, Santa Cruz, CA

Hybrid Event

In lung cancer, recurrent alterations in RNA processing regulators reshape both the proteins genes encode and the sequences that regulate their production. Understanding how mRNA processing influences protein production requires resolving the coding and regulatory sequences present in individual mRNA isoforms. Transcription start site (TSS) choice, alternative splicing (AS) , and polyadenylation site (PAS) choice […]
The Mindful U: Finding Calm, Clarity + Connection in a Chaotic World

September 30 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

The Mindful U: Finding Calm, Clarity + Connection in a Chaotic World With Jessica Sanam Hekmat Thursday, Sept. 30, 2025 | Noon PT Virtual via Zoom Hosted by the UCLA […]

Free
The World Cafe: Food, Tea, and Conversations that Matter

September 30 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm The World Cafe: Food, Tea, and Conversations that Matter

Rachel Carson/Oakes Dining Hall

The World Café — food, tea, and conversations that matter. Every other Wednesday, 5–7pm, RCC Dining Hall. All students welcome, every college and major. Free with a meal plan, or pay at the door. This quarter: Sept 30 — Conversation Café: What conversations matter to you this year? Oct 14 — Activism Café: How can […]
October 2026
BME 280B Seminar: Speaker Julian Lucas; and Speaker Theo Kell

October 1 @ 11:40 am – 1:15 pm

Physical Sciences Building Physical Sciences Building, Santa Cruz, CA

Title of Talk 1: Enabling Population-Scale Analysis of Human Centromere Diversity Presenter 1: Julian Lucas, Graduate Student in Miga Lab, University of California, Santa Cruz Description: Centromeres are essential for […]
Optional Practical Training (OPT) Workshop

October 1 @ 12:00 pm – October 2 @ 5:00 am

Zoom

Optional Practical Training (OPT) workshops are MANDATORY for all F-1 students who will apply for OPT, and you MUST have attended the OPT workshop within 9 months of applying for OPT. You […]
International Student Orientation Make-Up Session

October 1 @ 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

Virtual Event

Greetings, New International Students! This session is designed for all new F-1 and J-1 international students that were not able to attend the in-person orientation. During this make-up session, you […]
Miriam Pawel – California Dreams

October 1 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Bookshop Santa Cruz

Bookshop Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute welcome Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Miriam Pawel for a reading and signing of her new book California Dreams: The Making and Remaking of the […]
Produce Pop-Up

October 2 @ 11:00 am – 3:00 pm Produce Pop-Up

Produce Pop-Up is a twice-weekly organic farmstand open to all members of the UC Santa Cruz community. The program is dedicated to increasing access to fresh, healthy, and affordable organic […]
Fire & Grace & Flamenco with special guests Fanny Ara and Ian Scarfe

October 2 @ 7:30 pm

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

Baroque meets folk music with flamenco dance at UCSC Music Center Recital Hall on 10/2/26.
ECE 290 Seminar: “Why Do Chips Get Hot? Electro-Thermal Co-Design for Next-Generation Transistors”

October 5 @ 10:40 am – 11:45 am

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

Presented by: Young Suh Song, Knight-Hennessy PhD candidate @ Stanford University Description: “The rapid growth of information technology (IT) has led to remarkable progress in recent semiconductor technology. Transistors have become smaller so that more transistors can be packed into a chip, and today’s semiconductors even use technology that vertically stacks layers of transistors. Although this has […]
Make Your Resume Awesome!

October 5 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Career Success Student Lounge (125 Hahn) 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

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 […]
CM Seminar: Speaker – Yung-Ju (Stanley) Chang “Building Intelligence Around Limited Human Attention: Our Research Trajectory Toward Attention-Aware Agentic System”

October 5 @ 12:00 pm – 1:35 pm

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

Presenter: Yung-Ju (Stanley) Chang, Professor, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU) Description: Human attention has become an increasingly scarce resource in everyday digital life. People are constantly exposed to notifications, messages, news updates, social media content, and AI-generated information, all competing for limited attentional capacity. In this talk, I will share our research trajectory around […]
Environmental Studies Seminar Series | Exit Talk: Geospatial Optimization of California’s Organic Waste Diversion System: Transportation, Compliance, and Infrastructure Planning

October 5 @ 1:25 pm – 2:30 pm

Interdisciplinary Sciences Building 7487 Red Hill Road, Santa Cruz, CA

In person and via Zoom (Meeting ID: 978 5545 8946, Passcode: 454736). If you are unable to stream the talk live and need to access a recorded version, please contact Stacy Philpott at sphilpot@ucsc.edu. A UC Santa Cruz email address is required to access the recording. Host: Elliott Campbell Speaker: Siyu Luo, UC Santa Cruz, […]

September 2026

October 2026