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SUMMARY:Ecology of Presence: Pathways to the Natural World
DESCRIPTION:Norris Center Art + Science Graduate Fellowship Exhibition \nEcology of Presence: Pathways to the Natural World brings together the work of ten graduate students supported by the Kenneth S. Norris Center for Natural History Art + Science Fellowship\, a program dedicated to creative research connecting art with the natural world. Across media – including sound\, moving image\, music\, performance\, installation\, comics\, social practice\, photography\, and storytelling – the artists in Ecology of Presence emphasize relationality and careful attention to place as essential to building relationships with environs. As accelerating environmental change and technological dependency threaten ways of belonging\, the works in this exhibition maintain a steadfast commitment to interdisciplinary approaches that propose kinship with the natural world. By coming together\, Art + Science Fellows artworks and social practices suggest ways of imagining human life in relation to the more-than-human world.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/ecology-of-presence-pathways-to-the-natural-world/2026-03-05/
LOCATION:Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery\, 11 Cowell Service Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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SUMMARY:Black on the Block
DESCRIPTION:Join the African American Resource & Cultural Center every Thursday from 1–2 p.m.\, at the front of the Ethnic Resource Center for Black on the Block\, a weekly tabling and engagement space. \nStop by to learn about campus resources\, upcoming programs\, and ways to get involved. It’s a casual\, welcoming space to ask questions\, make connections\, and build community. All are welcome. \nYou Belong Here: The programs and services described here are open to all\, consistent with state and federal law\, as well as the University of California’s nondiscrimination policies. Every initiative—whether a student service\, faculty program\, or community event—is designed to be accessible\, inclusive\, and respectful of all identities. \nTo learn more\, please visit UC Nondiscrimination Statement or Nondiscrimination Policy for UC Publications.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/black-on-the-block/2026-03-05/
LOCATION:Crown Provost House\, 660 Crown Service Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Social Gathering
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SUMMARY:Xu\, Y. (CSE) - Right Place\, Right Time: Accelerating Edge Computation on Modern Heterogeneous SoCs
DESCRIPTION:Modern edge computing increasingly relies on heterogeneous System-on-Chip (SoC) architectures. These chips tightly integrate general-purpose CPUs with various specialized accelerators\, including GPUs\, FPGAs\, and AI accelerators\, all under a shared memory architecture. Although these shared-memory SoCs enable more efficient communication and data sharing between different processing units\, they are notoriously difficult to program and tune due to architectural diversity across vendors and asymmetric compute capabilities within each SoC. \nThis dissertation introduces Redwood and BetterTogether\, two frameworks that rethink CPU-accelerator collaboration on heterogeneous SoCs. Redwood targets a class of algorithms termed traverse–compute\, that combine irregular tree traversals with dense leaf-level computation\, e.g.\, Nearest-Neighbor Search and Barnes–Hut algorithm. \nIt addresses the efficient mapping of these algorithms onto heterogeneous systems by exploiting the architectural strengths of CPUs\, GPUs\, and FPGAs. BetterTogether extends this methodology to a different class of edge workloads\, specifically multi-stage pipelines and neural networks commonly used in computer vision tasks. Furthermore\, it introduces interference-aware analysis and scheduling techniques tailored for mobile SoCs. Finally\, to broaden the scope of heterogeneous acceleration\, we evaluated emerging domain-specific accelerators. We provide a preliminary analysis of Tensor Processing Units and Tensor Cores within the context of modern programming abstractions. \nEvent Host: Yanwen Xu\, Ph.D. Candidate\, Computer Science and Engineering \nAdvisor: Tyler Sorensen \nZoom- https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/5354629158?pwd=0CVhbwLuXDMX5fAGZd63tcfNqDWp0t.1 \nPasscode- 114514
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/xu-y-cse-right-place-right-time-accelerating-edge-computation-on-modern-heterogeneous-socs/
LOCATION:Engineering 2\, Engineering 2 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Ph.D. Presentations
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SUMMARY:Planting Oceania and Healing Communities
DESCRIPTION:Planting Oceania is a Oceanian/Indigenous Pacific Islander community organization that plants traditional foods in two gardens located at Filoli Historic House and Gardens in Woodside and at the UC Giltract Farms in Albany. Members of Planting Oceania will share stories about growing plants and stewarding the Land as an important cultural practice for building Oceania/Pacific Islander communities in California. Panelists will discuss being good guests and building good relations with Native California tribal leaders and communities — the Indigenous stewards of the Land — protocols they center in their land-based work. \nSpeakers: Windsor Taro (Belauan)\, John Holt (Kanaka Maoli/Native Hawaiian)\, Loa Niumeitolu (Tongan)\, Fuifuilupe Niumeitolu (Tongan)\, Andria Takesy (Belauan and Chuukese)\, Leila Tamale (Tongan)\, & Sitiveni Heimuli (Tongan) \nSponsored by: Rachel Carson College\, Center for Racial Justice\, Critical Race Ethnic Studies\, Asian American/ Pacific Islander Resource Center\, American Indian Resource Center\, People of Color Sustainable Collective\, & Mauna Kea Protectors \n For more info fniumeit@ucsc.edu \nYou Belong Here: The programs and services described here are open to all\, consistent with state and federal law\, as well as the University of California’s nondiscrimination policies. Every initiative—whether a student service\, faculty program\, or community event—is designed to be accessible\, inclusive\, and respectful of all identities. \nTo learn more\, please visit UC Nondiscrimination Statement or Nondiscrimination Policy for UC Publications.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/planting-oceania-and-healing-communities/
LOCATION:Namaste Lounge\, 615 College Nine Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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SUMMARY:Traveling Film Southasia - Film Screening Festival Launch
DESCRIPTION:Located in Communications 150\, Studio C \nJoin the Center for South Asian Studies (CSAS) for a celebratory film screening event to launch Travelling Film Southasia\, a mobile film festival highlighting 19 exceptional nonfiction productions of the last two years\, originally screened at Film Southasia 2024 in Kathmandu. This year’s festival encapsulates a range of experiences on the Subcontinent with films from Nepal\, Bangladesh\, India\, Pakistan and Myanmar\, including CSAS Faculty Director Dolly Kikon’s recent film\, Abundance. \nFilm Southasia (FSA) is a biennial festival that began in 1997 with the goal of popularizing documentary films so that they entertain\, inform\, and change lives. In addition to the festival that takes place in Kathmandu every two years\, FSA organizes screenings\, discussions\, and workshops to promote Southasian non-fiction within the Subcontinent and around the world. Film Southasia believes that film is a powerful medium that not only helps better represent the region internationally\, but also contributes immensely to introspection and to initiatives that bring change at the local level. \nFor more information: Traveling FSA 2025. \nAfter the March 5 film festival launch event\, the festival films will be available for streaming until March 20. Link and instructions for viewing to follow. \nThis event is open to all students\, faculty\, staff\, and members of the public consistent with University policy and state and federal law. \nPresented by the Center for South Asian Studies and co-sponsored by the Department of Film and Digital Media and The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/traveling-film-southasia-film-screening-festival-launch/
LOCATION:Communications Building\, 7487 Red Hill Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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SUMMARY:Random With A Purpose (RWAP) XXXlV—The Experiment
DESCRIPTION:Random With A Purpose is a popular annual student-directed and -choreographed dance showcase. \nPer directors Lydia Wallman and Brennah Lyons\, this year’s production\, The Experiment\, “serves as a platform for collaborators to develop work that does not yet exist in the physical world and to investigate elements of community and features a cast that reflects UC Santa Cruz’s diverse student population through a wide range of dance styles and perspectives.”  \nAdmission\n\nGeneral admission $5–$20 “Pay What You Like”\nFREE for UCSC undergrads (ticket required).\nTickets available on Eventbrite.\nDoors open 30 minutes prior to the event start time.\nTicket holders not seated at least 5 minutes before the advertised start time may forfeit their ticket/seat and no refund will be issued.\n\nAdvisories\nThis performance is approximately 90 minutes with a 15-minute intermission and includes: flashing lights and mature language. \nEvent dates\n\nFri. Feb. 27: 7:30 p.m.\nSat. Feb. 28: 7:30 p.m.\nSun. Mar. 1: 2:00 p.m.\nThu. Mar. 5: 7:30 p.m.\nFri. Mar. 6: 7:30 p.m.\nSat. Mar. 7: 7:30 p.m.\nSun. Mar. 8: 2:00 p.m.\n\nParking\n\nParking by permit\, ParkMobile\, or $11.00 cash/credit card via the on-site parking attendant\nArts parking lot #126 is the closest parking lot to the event\nVisitors with DMV placards or plates may park for free in DMV spaces\, Medical spaces\, or ParkMobile spaces without additional payment\, or in timed zones for longer than the posted time.\nRefer to Transportation & Parking Services for more information.\n\nThis program is open to all members of the public consistent with state and federal law.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/random-with-a-purpose-xxxlv/2026-03-05/
LOCATION:Second Stage\, Second Stage\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Performances
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SUMMARY:Barnstorm Presents--"Gloria\," by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
DESCRIPTION:Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Gloria is a razor-sharp comic drama about ambition\, office warfare and hierarchies\, where the only thing that matters is selling out to the highest bidder. This funny\, trenchant and powerful play follows an ambitious group of editorial assistants at a notorious Manhattan magazine\, each of whom hopes for a starry life of letters and a book deal before they turn thirty. But when an ordinary workday becomes anything but\, the stakes for who will get to tell their own story become higher than ever.\n—\nABOUT BARNSTORM\nUC Santa Cruz students experiment with and create their own innovative theater and gain a sense of operating and creating art in the Barnstorm Theater Company\, a student-run theater arts production company established in 2004.\n—\nADVISORIES\n– Ticket holders not seated at least 10 minutes before the advertised start time may forfeit their ticket/seat and no refund will be issued.\n—\nFULL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS\nFri. March 6: 7:30 p.m.\nSat. March 7: 2:00 p.m. matinee\nSat. March 7: 7:30 p.m.\nSun. March 8: 2:00 p.m. matinee\n—\nADMISSION\n– Tickets issued here through Eventbrite; Follow the Dept. of Performance\, Play & Design and Barnstorm on Eventbrite for notifications and updates.\n– Free for UCSC undergraduate students (ticket required).\n– General admission “Pay What You Like” options $5–20.\n– A limited number of tickets/seats may be available at the door\, even after online ticket sales end or reach full capacity.\n– Doors are scheduled to open 30 minutes prior to event start time.\n—\nPARKING\n– Parking by permit\, ParkMobile\, or $11 cash/credit via the on-site parking attendant when present (no attendant will be present for the Sat. March 7 matinee).\n– Additional parking by permit or ParkMobile.\n– Arts Lot #126 is the closest parking lot to the event.\n– Visitors with DMV placards or plates may park for free in DMV spaces\, Medical spaces\, or ParkMobile spaces without additional payment\, or in timed zones for longer than the posted time.\n– UCSC affiliates must purchase their permits before arriving at the event in order to receive their discounted UCSC rate. Attendants will only sell the non-affiliate-priced permits.\n– More information provided by UCSC Transportation & Parking Services (TAPS).\n—\nThis program is open to all members of the public consistent with state and federal law.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/barnstorm-presents-gloria-by-branden-jacobs-jenkins/2026-03-06/1/
LOCATION:Theater Arts B100 Studio Theater\, 453 Kerr Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
CATEGORIES:Performances
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SUMMARY:Ecology of Presence: Pathways to the Natural World
DESCRIPTION:Norris Center Art + Science Graduate Fellowship Exhibition \nEcology of Presence: Pathways to the Natural World brings together the work of ten graduate students supported by the Kenneth S. Norris Center for Natural History Art + Science Fellowship\, a program dedicated to creative research connecting art with the natural world. Across media – including sound\, moving image\, music\, performance\, installation\, comics\, social practice\, photography\, and storytelling – the artists in Ecology of Presence emphasize relationality and careful attention to place as essential to building relationships with environs. As accelerating environmental change and technological dependency threaten ways of belonging\, the works in this exhibition maintain a steadfast commitment to interdisciplinary approaches that propose kinship with the natural world. By coming together\, Art + Science Fellows artworks and social practices suggest ways of imagining human life in relation to the more-than-human world.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/ecology-of-presence-pathways-to-the-natural-world/2026-03-06/
LOCATION:Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery\, 11 Cowell Service Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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SUMMARY:Weather and the Whale Book Launch and Closing Party
DESCRIPTION:March 6\, 2026 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. The IAS will host a Celebration of the release of the Weather and the Whale catalog with an after-hours viewing of the exhibition and a conversation with three of the exhibition collaborators and catalog contributors: Guillermo Delgado-P\, Kailani Polzak and Zac Zimmer. \nDistributed by University of Minnesota Press\, Weather and the Whale is an exciting interdisciplinary catalog combining artworks\, critical and creative texts\, and new scientific research about whales and other marine mammals to both sound a warning of the irreversible consequences of the collapsing climate and offer alternative possibilities for living during these challenging times.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/weather-and-the-whale-book-launch-and-closing-party/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Ave\, Santa Cruz\, United States
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SUMMARY:Science in the Neighborhood: Transforming Pacific salmon recovery\, from genes to ecosystems
DESCRIPTION:Science In the Neighborhood\nA public lecture series hosted quarterly by the UC Santa Cruz Science Division \nTransforming Pacific salmon recovery\, from genes to ecosystems\nPresentation by Eric Palkovacs\, Professor\, UC Santa Cruz\nQ&A with Bryan Gaensler\, Dean of Science\, UC Santa Cruz \nRegister here. \nAn endangered Central California Coast coho salmon from the Scott Creek recovery program that UCSC operates in collaboration with NOAA. Photo credit: Joel Sartore / National Geographic Photo Ark.\nFor millennia\, Pacific salmon have been integral to the health of coastal ecosystems and human communities from California to Alaska. Salmon are ecological and cultural keystone species\, connecting marine and freshwater food webs and supporting thriving fisheries. Yet\, wild salmon have declined precipitously due to a combination of factors including dams\, harvest\, hatcheries\, water use—and now\, climate change. \nProfessor Palkovacs\, who leads UC Santa Cruz’s Institute of Marine Sciences and Fisheries Collaborative Program\, will describe transformative approaches to recover wild salmon populations by connecting novel insights from the level of genes to ecosystems. Learn how this integrative research program can provide insights to transform the future for wild Pacific salmon and the ecosystems and fisheries they support. \nThe event is in-person only. Register here. \nMarch 6\, 2026 | 6:00–7:30 p.m.\nCoastal Biology Building. Rm. 110\nUC Santa Cruz Coastal Campus\n130 McAllister Way\nSanta Cruz\, CA 95060 \nThe screenshot below shows where to find the entrance of the Coastal Biology Building.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/transforming-pacific-salmon-recovery-from-genes-to-ecosystems/
LOCATION:Coastal Biology Building\, 130 McAllister Way\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
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SUMMARY:Lila Downs in Quarry Amphitheatre (March 6th)
DESCRIPTION:Tickets are on sale at quarryamphitheater.com\, starting at $67.50 for general admission\, and $118.26 VIP seating. \n  \nBorn in 1968\, Lila Downs is one of Latin America’s most influential voices\, an artist with a singular sound and magnetic stage presence. Rooted in Oaxaca and shaped between Mexico and the United States\, she weaves Mexican tradition with jazz\, cumbia\, folk\, and contemporary rhythms. Her music is both celebration and conscience; she’ll turn the redwood backdrop into a gathering—intimate\, fearless\, and deeply human—where culture is honored\, stories are reclaimed\, and audiences are invited to feel\, dance\, and remember.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/lila-downs-in-quarry-amphitheatre/
LOCATION:Upper Quarry Amphitheater\, 15 McLaughlin Drive\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Concerts,Performances
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SUMMARY:Random With A Purpose (RWAP) XXXlV—The Experiment
DESCRIPTION:Random With A Purpose is a popular annual student-directed and -choreographed dance showcase. \nPer directors Lydia Wallman and Brennah Lyons\, this year’s production\, The Experiment\, “serves as a platform for collaborators to develop work that does not yet exist in the physical world and to investigate elements of community and features a cast that reflects UC Santa Cruz’s diverse student population through a wide range of dance styles and perspectives.”  \nAdmission\n\nGeneral admission $5–$20 “Pay What You Like”\nFREE for UCSC undergrads (ticket required).\nTickets available on Eventbrite.\nDoors open 30 minutes prior to the event start time.\nTicket holders not seated at least 5 minutes before the advertised start time may forfeit their ticket/seat and no refund will be issued.\n\nAdvisories\nThis performance is approximately 90 minutes with a 15-minute intermission and includes: flashing lights and mature language. \nEvent dates\n\nFri. Feb. 27: 7:30 p.m.\nSat. Feb. 28: 7:30 p.m.\nSun. Mar. 1: 2:00 p.m.\nThu. Mar. 5: 7:30 p.m.\nFri. Mar. 6: 7:30 p.m.\nSat. Mar. 7: 7:30 p.m.\nSun. Mar. 8: 2:00 p.m.\n\nParking\n\nParking by permit\, ParkMobile\, or $11.00 cash/credit card via the on-site parking attendant\nArts parking lot #126 is the closest parking lot to the event\nVisitors with DMV placards or plates may park for free in DMV spaces\, Medical spaces\, or ParkMobile spaces without additional payment\, or in timed zones for longer than the posted time.\nRefer to Transportation & Parking Services for more information.\n\nThis program is open to all members of the public consistent with state and federal law.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/random-with-a-purpose-xxxlv/2026-03-06/
LOCATION:Second Stage\, Second Stage\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Performances
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED—UCSC Wind Ensemble—Spirits and Legends
DESCRIPTION:Event update: this event is cancelled as of 6:30PM on Friday\, March 6. Ticket holders will receive refunds automatically via Eventbrite. Please contact artsevents@ucsc.edu with questions or concerns. \n— \nUCSC Wind Ensemble presents Spirits and Legends; a concert featuring music for Wind Ensemble on themes of past or present legends or spirit journeys. Featuring music from “Spirited Away” by Joe Hisaishi\, “The Dream of Angus” by Rolf Rudin\, “Sound and Smoke” by Viet Cuong\, and music by Carlos Chavez\, Julie Giroux\, and Richard Wagner.\n—\nADMISSION\n– General admission.\n– Free for UCSC students (ticket required).\n– Tickets available online through Eventbrite only HERE.\n– Follow the Music Dept on Eventbrite for notices and updates.\n– Doors are scheduled to open 30 minutes prior to event start time.\n– Ticket holders not seated at least 5 minutes before the advertised start time may forfeit their ticket/seat and no refund will be issued.\n—\nPARKING\n– Parking by permit\, ParkMobile\, or $11 cash/credit via the on-site parking attendant\n– Arts Lot #126 is the closest parking lot to the event\n– Visitors with DMV placards or plates may park for free in DMV spaces\, Medical spaces\, or ParkMobile spaces without additional payment\, or in timed zones for longer than the posted time.\n– UCSC affiliates must purchase their permits before arriving at the event in order to receive their discounted UCSC rate. Attendants will only sell the non-affiliate-priced permits.\n– More information provided by UCSC Transportation & Parking Services (TAPS)\n—\nThis program is open to all members of the public consistent with state and federal law.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/ucsc-wind-ensemble-2/
LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall\, 400 McHenry Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Concerts,Performances
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SUMMARY:Barnstorm Presents--"Gloria\," by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
DESCRIPTION:Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Gloria is a razor-sharp comic drama about ambition\, office warfare and hierarchies\, where the only thing that matters is selling out to the highest bidder. This funny\, trenchant and powerful play follows an ambitious group of editorial assistants at a notorious Manhattan magazine\, each of whom hopes for a starry life of letters and a book deal before they turn thirty. But when an ordinary workday becomes anything but\, the stakes for who will get to tell their own story become higher than ever.\n—\nABOUT BARNSTORM\nUC Santa Cruz students experiment with and create their own innovative theater and gain a sense of operating and creating art in the Barnstorm Theater Company\, a student-run theater arts production company established in 2004.\n—\nADVISORIES\n– Ticket holders not seated at least 10 minutes before the advertised start time may forfeit their ticket/seat and no refund will be issued.\n—\nFULL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS\nFri. March 6: 7:30 p.m.\nSat. March 7: 2:00 p.m. matinee\nSat. March 7: 7:30 p.m.\nSun. March 8: 2:00 p.m. matinee\n—\nADMISSION\n– Tickets issued here through Eventbrite; Follow the Dept. of Performance\, Play & Design and Barnstorm on Eventbrite for notifications and updates.\n– Free for UCSC undergraduate students (ticket required).\n– General admission “Pay What You Like” options $5–20.\n– A limited number of tickets/seats may be available at the door\, even after online ticket sales end or reach full capacity.\n– Doors are scheduled to open 30 minutes prior to event start time.\n—\nPARKING\n– Parking by permit\, ParkMobile\, or $11 cash/credit via the on-site parking attendant when present (no attendant will be present for the Sat. March 7 matinee).\n– Additional parking by permit or ParkMobile.\n– Arts Lot #126 is the closest parking lot to the event.\n– Visitors with DMV placards or plates may park for free in DMV spaces\, Medical spaces\, or ParkMobile spaces without additional payment\, or in timed zones for longer than the posted time.\n– UCSC affiliates must purchase their permits before arriving at the event in order to receive their discounted UCSC rate. Attendants will only sell the non-affiliate-priced permits.\n– More information provided by UCSC Transportation & Parking Services (TAPS).\n—\nThis program is open to all members of the public consistent with state and federal law.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/barnstorm-presents-gloria-by-branden-jacobs-jenkins/2026-03-06/2/
LOCATION:Theater Arts B100 Studio Theater\, 453 Kerr Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
CATEGORIES:Performances
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SUMMARY:First Saturday Tour at the Arboretum
DESCRIPTION: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 and mammals that make this land their home or about the amazing physical adaptations that plants have evolved to better deal with our extreme weather and climate conditions. Tours are free with paid admission.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/first-saturday-tour-at-the-arboretum/2026-03-07/
LOCATION:Arboretum\, 122 Arboretum Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
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SUMMARY:Ecology of Presence: Pathways to the Natural World
DESCRIPTION:Norris Center Art + Science Graduate Fellowship Exhibition \nEcology of Presence: Pathways to the Natural World brings together the work of ten graduate students supported by the Kenneth S. Norris Center for Natural History Art + Science Fellowship\, a program dedicated to creative research connecting art with the natural world. Across media – including sound\, moving image\, music\, performance\, installation\, comics\, social practice\, photography\, and storytelling – the artists in Ecology of Presence emphasize relationality and careful attention to place as essential to building relationships with environs. As accelerating environmental change and technological dependency threaten ways of belonging\, the works in this exhibition maintain a steadfast commitment to interdisciplinary approaches that propose kinship with the natural world. By coming together\, Art + Science Fellows artworks and social practices suggest ways of imagining human life in relation to the more-than-human world.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/ecology-of-presence-pathways-to-the-natural-world/2026-03-07/
LOCATION:Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery\, 11 Cowell Service Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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SUMMARY:Barnstorm Presents--"Gloria\," by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
DESCRIPTION:Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Gloria is a razor-sharp comic drama about ambition\, office warfare and hierarchies\, where the only thing that matters is selling out to the highest bidder. This funny\, trenchant and powerful play follows an ambitious group of editorial assistants at a notorious Manhattan magazine\, each of whom hopes for a starry life of letters and a book deal before they turn thirty. But when an ordinary workday becomes anything but\, the stakes for who will get to tell their own story become higher than ever.\n—\nABOUT BARNSTORM\nUC Santa Cruz students experiment with and create their own innovative theater and gain a sense of operating and creating art in the Barnstorm Theater Company\, a student-run theater arts production company established in 2004.\n—\nADVISORIES\n– Ticket holders not seated at least 10 minutes before the advertised start time may forfeit their ticket/seat and no refund will be issued.\n—\nFULL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS\nFri. March 6: 7:30 p.m.\nSat. March 7: 2:00 p.m. matinee\nSat. March 7: 7:30 p.m.\nSun. March 8: 2:00 p.m. matinee\n—\nADMISSION\n– Tickets issued here through Eventbrite; Follow the Dept. of Performance\, Play & Design and Barnstorm on Eventbrite for notifications and updates.\n– Free for UCSC undergraduate students (ticket required).\n– General admission “Pay What You Like” options $5–20.\n– A limited number of tickets/seats may be available at the door\, even after online ticket sales end or reach full capacity.\n– Doors are scheduled to open 30 minutes prior to event start time.\n—\nPARKING\n– Parking by permit\, ParkMobile\, or $11 cash/credit via the on-site parking attendant when present (no attendant will be present for the Sat. March 7 matinee).\n– Additional parking by permit or ParkMobile.\n– Arts Lot #126 is the closest parking lot to the event.\n– Visitors with DMV placards or plates may park for free in DMV spaces\, Medical spaces\, or ParkMobile spaces without additional payment\, or in timed zones for longer than the posted time.\n– UCSC affiliates must purchase their permits before arriving at the event in order to receive their discounted UCSC rate. Attendants will only sell the non-affiliate-priced permits.\n– More information provided by UCSC Transportation & Parking Services (TAPS).\n—\nThis program is open to all members of the public consistent with state and federal law.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/barnstorm-presents-gloria-by-branden-jacobs-jenkins/2026-03-07/1/
LOCATION:Theater Arts B100 Studio Theater\, 453 Kerr Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
CATEGORIES:Performances
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SUMMARY:UCSC Grad Slam Final - March 7th
DESCRIPTION:What is Grad Slam?\n\nThree Minutes. One Slide. Thousands of Dollars in Prizes!\nGrad Slam is a communication contest hosted by the UC Santa Cruz Graduate Division that highlights graduate student research. Participants have a maximum of three minutes to explain their graduate research or artistic endeavor to a general audience. \nFirst Place\, Grad Slam Champion: $3000 \nSecond Place: $1500 \nPeople’s Choice*: $750 \n*decided by text message voting\, one vote per audience member\, both those in person and watching the live stream \nCome join the fun and vote for your favorite presentation.  \nSaturday\, March 7th at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center. Doors open at 6:30\, talks begin at 7PM \nAll ten UC Grad Slam champions\, 1 from each campus\, compete in the UC Office of the President’s Grad Slam. The UC system-wide Grad Slam will take place on Wednesday\, April 22\, at the UC Center Sacramento.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/ucsc-grad-slam-final-march-7th/
LOCATION:Kuumbwa Jazz Center\, 320-2 Cedar St\, Santa Cruz\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:After Hours: MIKE Live at the Quarry (Student-Only Concert)
DESCRIPTION:MIKE headlines an exclusive hip hop concert for UC Santa Cruz students on Saturday\, March 7 at the Quarry Amphitheater. Presented by the Division of Student Affairs and Success (DSAS) Leadership and Involvement Team\, this event is part of the new After Hours series\, created to expand opportunities for student connection\, creativity\, and engagement beyond traditional campus hours. \nSpecial guest Lil Kayla opens the show. \nDoors: 7 p.m. | Show: 8 p.m. \nTickets: $10 (UCSC students only\, while supplies last) \nLocation: Quarry Amphitheater \nFollow @ucsc.dsas on Instagram for updates. \nQuestions: involved@ucsc.edu \n  \nYou Belong Here: The programs and services described here are open to all\, consistent with state and federal law\, as well as the University of California’s nondiscrimination policies. Every initiative—whether a student service\, faculty program\, or community event—is designed to be accessible\, inclusive\, and respectful of all identities. \nTo learn more\, please visit UC Nondiscrimination Statement or Nondiscrimination Policy for UC Publications.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/after-hours-mike-live-at-the-quarry-student-only-concert/
LOCATION:Upper Quarry Amphitheater\, 15 McLaughlin Drive\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Concerts,Performances
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SUMMARY:Random With A Purpose (RWAP) XXXlV—The Experiment
DESCRIPTION:Random With A Purpose is a popular annual student-directed and -choreographed dance showcase. \nPer directors Lydia Wallman and Brennah Lyons\, this year’s production\, The Experiment\, “serves as a platform for collaborators to develop work that does not yet exist in the physical world and to investigate elements of community and features a cast that reflects UC Santa Cruz’s diverse student population through a wide range of dance styles and perspectives.”  \nAdmission\n\nGeneral admission $5–$20 “Pay What You Like”\nFREE for UCSC undergrads (ticket required).\nTickets available on Eventbrite.\nDoors open 30 minutes prior to the event start time.\nTicket holders not seated at least 5 minutes before the advertised start time may forfeit their ticket/seat and no refund will be issued.\n\nAdvisories\nThis performance is approximately 90 minutes with a 15-minute intermission and includes: flashing lights and mature language. \nEvent dates\n\nFri. Feb. 27: 7:30 p.m.\nSat. Feb. 28: 7:30 p.m.\nSun. Mar. 1: 2:00 p.m.\nThu. Mar. 5: 7:30 p.m.\nFri. Mar. 6: 7:30 p.m.\nSat. Mar. 7: 7:30 p.m.\nSun. Mar. 8: 2:00 p.m.\n\nParking\n\nParking by permit\, ParkMobile\, or $11.00 cash/credit card via the on-site parking attendant\nArts parking lot #126 is the closest parking lot to the event\nVisitors with DMV placards or plates may park for free in DMV spaces\, Medical spaces\, or ParkMobile spaces without additional payment\, or in timed zones for longer than the posted time.\nRefer to Transportation & Parking Services for more information.\n\nThis program is open to all members of the public consistent with state and federal law.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/random-with-a-purpose-xxxlv/2026-03-07/
LOCATION:Second Stage\, Second Stage\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Performances
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SUMMARY:Barnstorm Presents--"Gloria\," by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
DESCRIPTION:Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Gloria is a razor-sharp comic drama about ambition\, office warfare and hierarchies\, where the only thing that matters is selling out to the highest bidder. This funny\, trenchant and powerful play follows an ambitious group of editorial assistants at a notorious Manhattan magazine\, each of whom hopes for a starry life of letters and a book deal before they turn thirty. But when an ordinary workday becomes anything but\, the stakes for who will get to tell their own story become higher than ever.\n—\nABOUT BARNSTORM\nUC Santa Cruz students experiment with and create their own innovative theater and gain a sense of operating and creating art in the Barnstorm Theater Company\, a student-run theater arts production company established in 2004.\n—\nADVISORIES\n– Ticket holders not seated at least 10 minutes before the advertised start time may forfeit their ticket/seat and no refund will be issued.\n—\nFULL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS\nFri. March 6: 7:30 p.m.\nSat. March 7: 2:00 p.m. matinee\nSat. March 7: 7:30 p.m.\nSun. March 8: 2:00 p.m. matinee\n—\nADMISSION\n– Tickets issued here through Eventbrite; Follow the Dept. of Performance\, Play & Design and Barnstorm on Eventbrite for notifications and updates.\n– Free for UCSC undergraduate students (ticket required).\n– General admission “Pay What You Like” options $5–20.\n– A limited number of tickets/seats may be available at the door\, even after online ticket sales end or reach full capacity.\n– Doors are scheduled to open 30 minutes prior to event start time.\n—\nPARKING\n– Parking by permit\, ParkMobile\, or $11 cash/credit via the on-site parking attendant when present (no attendant will be present for the Sat. March 7 matinee).\n– Additional parking by permit or ParkMobile.\n– Arts Lot #126 is the closest parking lot to the event.\n– Visitors with DMV placards or plates may park for free in DMV spaces\, Medical spaces\, or ParkMobile spaces without additional payment\, or in timed zones for longer than the posted time.\n– UCSC affiliates must purchase their permits before arriving at the event in order to receive their discounted UCSC rate. Attendants will only sell the non-affiliate-priced permits.\n– More information provided by UCSC Transportation & Parking Services (TAPS).\n—\nThis program is open to all members of the public consistent with state and federal law.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/barnstorm-presents-gloria-by-branden-jacobs-jenkins/2026-03-07/2/
LOCATION:Theater Arts B100 Studio Theater\, 453 Kerr Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
CATEGORIES:Performances
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SUMMARY:Family-friendly and Bilingual Bird Walk at the UCSC Arboretum
DESCRIPTION:Beginner Bird Walk / Paseando con los Pájaritos \nJoin the Bird School Project as they help kick-off the celebrations for Hummingbird Month in the beautiful gardens of the UCSC Arboretum & Botanic Garden. This bird walk is beginner and family-friendly. Bring binoculars if you have them\, if not\, binoculars or a monocular will be provided for you during the walk. The group will meet up at the entrance of the Australianum Garden right next to the large cypress tree in the middle of the parking lot. A Bird School Instructor will be leading the walk and will alternate speaking English and Spanish as needed. We encourage you to arrive at least 15 minutes early if you need to borrow binoculars. \nÚnase a la Escuela de Aves para celebrar el Mes del Colibrí. Este paseo de aves es para principiantes y apto para familias. Traiga binoculares si los tiene\, si no\, se le proporcionarán binoculares o un monocular durante la caminata. El grupo se reunirá en la entrada del Jardín Australia\, justo al lado del gran ciprés en el medio del estacionamiento. Un instructor de la Escuela de Aves liderará la caminata y alternará hablando en inglés y español según sea necesario. Le recomendamos que llegue al menos 15 minutos antes si necesita pedir prestados binoculares. \nEvent is free with paid admission. Adults $10\, Seniors $8\, Youth 4-17 $5 \nBeginner and family-friendly bird walk at the UCSC Arboretum by the Santa Cruz Bird School Project in English and Spanish.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/family-friendly-and-bilingual-bird-walk-at-the-ucsc-arboretum/2026-03-08/
LOCATION:Arboretum\, 122 Arboretum Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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SUMMARY:Ecology of Presence: Pathways to the Natural World
DESCRIPTION:Norris Center Art + Science Graduate Fellowship Exhibition \nEcology of Presence: Pathways to the Natural World brings together the work of ten graduate students supported by the Kenneth S. Norris Center for Natural History Art + Science Fellowship\, a program dedicated to creative research connecting art with the natural world. Across media – including sound\, moving image\, music\, performance\, installation\, comics\, social practice\, photography\, and storytelling – the artists in Ecology of Presence emphasize relationality and careful attention to place as essential to building relationships with environs. As accelerating environmental change and technological dependency threaten ways of belonging\, the works in this exhibition maintain a steadfast commitment to interdisciplinary approaches that propose kinship with the natural world. By coming together\, Art + Science Fellows artworks and social practices suggest ways of imagining human life in relation to the more-than-human world.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/ecology-of-presence-pathways-to-the-natural-world/2026-03-08/
LOCATION:Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery\, 11 Cowell Service Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260308T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260308T143000
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SUMMARY:Jewels in the garden: A Darwinian natural history of humming birds with UCSC Professor Emeritus Bruce Lyon
DESCRIPTION:This presentation promises to be a super fun exploration of hummingbird natural history\, evolution\, and social behavior\, full of fascinating scientific information and colorful images of local and exotic hummingbirds from here and abroad. Though now officially a Professor Emeritus of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UC Santa Cruz\, we are lucky that Dr. Bruce Lyon has little inclination to stop studying bird ecology and evolution in ‘retirement’! During his rich career teaching and conducting research\, Bruce’s work continues to include the Lyon Lab’s 18+ year-long project studying golden-crowned sparrows at the Arboretum. \nBruce will give his entertaining presentation and slideshow in the Arboretum’s Hort 2 Meeting Hall and then take interested folks outside to one of the Arboretum’s “hummingbird hotspots” for an informal (humming)-birdwatching session and Q&A. 
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/jewels-in-the-garden-a-darwinian-natural-history-of-humming-birds-with-ucsc-professor-emeritus-bruce-lyon/
LOCATION:Arboretum\, 122 Arboretum Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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SUMMARY:Random With A Purpose (RWAP) XXXlV—The Experiment
DESCRIPTION:Random With A Purpose is a popular annual student-directed and -choreographed dance showcase. \nPer directors Lydia Wallman and Brennah Lyons\, this year’s production\, The Experiment\, “serves as a platform for collaborators to develop work that does not yet exist in the physical world and to investigate elements of community and features a cast that reflects UC Santa Cruz’s diverse student population through a wide range of dance styles and perspectives.”  \nAdmission\n\nGeneral admission $5–$20 “Pay What You Like”\nFREE for UCSC undergrads (ticket required).\nTickets available on Eventbrite.\nDoors open 30 minutes prior to the event start time.\nTicket holders not seated at least 5 minutes before the advertised start time may forfeit their ticket/seat and no refund will be issued.\n\nAdvisories\nThis performance is approximately 90 minutes with a 15-minute intermission and includes: flashing lights and mature language. \nEvent dates\n\nFri. Feb. 27: 7:30 p.m.\nSat. Feb. 28: 7:30 p.m.\nSun. Mar. 1: 2:00 p.m.\nThu. Mar. 5: 7:30 p.m.\nFri. Mar. 6: 7:30 p.m.\nSat. Mar. 7: 7:30 p.m.\nSun. Mar. 8: 2:00 p.m.\n\nParking\n\nParking by permit\, ParkMobile\, or $11.00 cash/credit card via the on-site parking attendant\nArts parking lot #126 is the closest parking lot to the event\nVisitors with DMV placards or plates may park for free in DMV spaces\, Medical spaces\, or ParkMobile spaces without additional payment\, or in timed zones for longer than the posted time.\nRefer to Transportation & Parking Services for more information.\n\nThis program is open to all members of the public consistent with state and federal law.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/random-with-a-purpose-xxxlv/2026-03-08/
LOCATION:Second Stage\, Second Stage\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Performances
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SUMMARY:The Trial of Spock—An Opera Workshop
DESCRIPTION:The creators of The Trial of Spock—An Opera In Three Acts present concert performances of five scenes from an opera-in-progress at the UC Santa Cruz Music Center Recital Hall.  \nCaptain Christopher Pike is gravely injured. Lieutenant Spock is behaving strangely. Charged with protecting Pike in his state of extreme need\,Vulcan Commodore T’or suspects that Lieutenant Spock—once Captain Pike’s science officer—is up to no good. Spock’s Captain\, James T. Kirk\, doesn’t see the trouble until far too late\, and soon Spock holds all of them prisoner aboard a ship destined for the “forbidden planet” Talos IV. He refuses to say a word about their fate—not until his superiors agree to give him his trial. Under oath\, and with strange evidence\, Spock tells the story of Captain Pike’s first visit to Talos IV\, where illusion and artificial experiences plunge Pike and fellow captive Vina into uncharted dimensions of their memories\, and their concepts of self. \nJoin sopranos Nicole Koh\, Sheila Willey\, and Emily Sinclair; tenors Alex Boyer and Nicolas Vasquez-Gerst\, baritones Joseph Calzada and Michael Kuo\, and the Del Sol Quartet\, as they distort the myth of Orpheus\, in order to re-think our presumed relationships to freedom and reality\, and its augmentations. \nMusic by Ben Leeds Carson; libretto by Perre DiCarlo & Ben Leeds Carson and Lincoln & Lee Taiz; with contributions from John de Lancie\, based on teleplays by Gene Roddenberry. \n—\nADMISSION\n– FREE and open to the public\n– Tickets required and available online through Eventbrite\n– Follow the Music Dept on Eventbrite for notices and updates.\n– Doors are scheduled to open 30 minutes prior to event start time.\n– Ticket holders not seated at least 5 minutes before the advertised start time may forfeit their ticket/seat and no refund will be issued.\n—\nPARKING\n– Parking by permit\, ParkMobile\, or $11 cash/credit via the on-site parking attendant\n– Arts Lot #126 is the closest parking lot to the event\n– Visitors with DMV placards or plates may park for free in DMV spaces\, Medical spaces\, or ParkMobile spaces without additional payment\, or in timed zones for longer than the posted time.\n– UCSC affiliates must purchase their permits before arriving at the event in order to receive their discounted UCSC rate. Attendants will only sell the non-affiliate-priced permits.\n– More information provided by UCSC Transportation & Parking Services (TAPS)\n—\nFULL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS\nFri\, March 8\, 4:00 p.m.\, UC Santa Cruz Music Center Recital Hall\nThe Trial of Spock—An Opera Workshop\n—\nFri\, March 13\, 7:00 p.m.\, Kuumbwa Jazz Center\nHow to Live Long and Prosper—Lessons from a Star Trek Opera\n—\nThis program is open to all members of the public consistent with state and federal law. \n  \n 
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/trial-of-spock/
LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall\, 400 McHenry Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Fundraisers,Performances
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SUMMARY:Barnstorm Presents--"Gloria\," by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
DESCRIPTION:Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Gloria is a razor-sharp comic drama about ambition\, office warfare and hierarchies\, where the only thing that matters is selling out to the highest bidder. This funny\, trenchant and powerful play follows an ambitious group of editorial assistants at a notorious Manhattan magazine\, each of whom hopes for a starry life of letters and a book deal before they turn thirty. But when an ordinary workday becomes anything but\, the stakes for who will get to tell their own story become higher than ever.\n—\nABOUT BARNSTORM\nUC Santa Cruz students experiment with and create their own innovative theater and gain a sense of operating and creating art in the Barnstorm Theater Company\, a student-run theater arts production company established in 2004.\n—\nADVISORIES\n– Ticket holders not seated at least 10 minutes before the advertised start time may forfeit their ticket/seat and no refund will be issued.\n—\nFULL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS\nFri. March 6: 7:30 p.m.\nSat. March 7: 2:00 p.m. matinee\nSat. March 7: 7:30 p.m.\nSun. March 8: 2:00 p.m. matinee\n—\nADMISSION\n– Tickets issued here through Eventbrite; Follow the Dept. of Performance\, Play & Design and Barnstorm on Eventbrite for notifications and updates.\n– Free for UCSC undergraduate students (ticket required).\n– General admission “Pay What You Like” options $5–20.\n– A limited number of tickets/seats may be available at the door\, even after online ticket sales end or reach full capacity.\n– Doors are scheduled to open 30 minutes prior to event start time.\n—\nPARKING\n– Parking by permit\, ParkMobile\, or $11 cash/credit via the on-site parking attendant when present (no attendant will be present for the Sat. March 7 matinee).\n– Additional parking by permit or ParkMobile.\n– Arts Lot #126 is the closest parking lot to the event.\n– Visitors with DMV placards or plates may park for free in DMV spaces\, Medical spaces\, or ParkMobile spaces without additional payment\, or in timed zones for longer than the posted time.\n– UCSC affiliates must purchase their permits before arriving at the event in order to receive their discounted UCSC rate. Attendants will only sell the non-affiliate-priced permits.\n– More information provided by UCSC Transportation & Parking Services (TAPS).\n—\nThis program is open to all members of the public consistent with state and federal law.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/barnstorm-presents-gloria-by-branden-jacobs-jenkins/2026-03-08/
LOCATION:Theater Arts B100 Studio Theater\, 453 Kerr Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
CATEGORIES:Performances
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SUMMARY:"The Cigarette Surfboard" screening with filmmaker Ben Judkins (Kresge '17)
DESCRIPTION:Join Banana Slug alumni filmmaker Ben Judkins (Kresge ’17\, film and digital media) and “ciggy board” creator Taylor Lane for a screening of their award-winning documentary\, The Cigarette Surfboard (presented by the California Coastal Commission‘s Whale Tail Grant). \n5:00-6:00 PM | alumni meet & greet with light refreshments\n6:00-7:35 PM | film screening\n7:35-8:30 PM | filmmaker discussion\n8:30-9:00 PM | mingle \nREGISTER\nABOUT THE FILM\nAfter a young designer realizes that a surfboard – which he crafted from thousands of littered cigarette butts picked up off California beaches – could captivate the eyes of millions across the globe\, he decides to use it as the impetus to do something more. The Cigarette Surfboards become a platform to spark ocean stewardship and the symbol of a campaign to hold Big Tobacco accountable for their toxic\, plastic waste. Surfing is the medium\, but the message is universal. \nSmall decisions and actions\, like littering a cigarette butt\, cumulatively can have a large impact\, for better or for worse. This immersive documentary provides viewers an up close experience of the ocean through surfers’ eyes\, to amplify a message of urgency and possibility regarding the ocean’s wellbeing. As our ocean faces mounting threats\, and surfing continues to grow\, we as surfers have a responsibility to protect it. \nABOUT THE FILMMAKER\nRaised in Northern California\, at age eight\, Ben Judkins found an old camcorder and discovered the medium to explore and create. After years of videotaping friends skateboarding and surfing\, Ben landed at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, majoring in Film & Digital Media. His senior film “Marshall” earned the Dean’s Award\, and also won “Best Locally-Produced Work” at the 2017 Santa Cruz Film Festival. Ben is an avid surfer who believes in the power of visual storytelling to move people to action. The Cigarette Surfboard documentary is an opportunity to inspire a generation of surfers to be stewards of the sea.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/the-cigarette-surfboard-screening-with-filmmaker-ben-judkins-kresge-17/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Screening
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SUMMARY:Hendawy\, M. (CM) - Autonoming Child Online Safety in the Age of AI: From Control to Digital Co-Agency Across Cultures
DESCRIPTION:Children’s lives are now inextricably linked with AI-driven digital systems that shape learning\, social interaction\, and development. This has elevated child online safety to a central concern for families\, policymakers\, and educators. This makes Child online safety a wicked socio-technical problem\, emerging from the complex interplay of social norms\, platform incentives\, cultural expectations\, and rapidly evolving technologies. Dominant control-based paradigms—monitoring\, blocking\, and surveillance—undermine children’s developmental capacity\, erode family trust\, and foreclose the iterative cycles of self regulated learning necessary for digital resilience. This proposal advances digital co-agency as a new paradigm for child online safety. It reframes safety from an outcome of unilateral control to a shared\, relational practice distributed across children\, caregivers\, technologies\, and governance structures. To be effective\, digital co-agency must be grounded in a clear normative standard. I define this standard as ethical safety: protection is legitimate only when it is rights-respecting and developmentally supportive. Within this boundary\, the dissertation proposes autonoming as a design stance for AI-mediated safety systems. Autonoming systems act as developmental mentors that support children’s judgment over time through explanation\, negotiation\, and graduated support that can fade as competence grows. Autonoming is grounded in Self-Regulated Learning (SRL) as the developmental mechanism for durable safety capacity. SRL models learning as cyclical forethought (planning)\, performance (in-the-moment regulation)\, and reflection (evaluating outcomes). The dissertation adopts a socio-technical interpretivist stance and a Design Science Research orientation to produce actionable artifacts that are theoretically grounded and evaluable.. Its core methodological contribution is localization-first comparative design across Cairo and Berlin. This comparative structure helps distinguish between: localized variables (culturally specific norms regarding authority\, privacy\, risk\, norms\, expectations\, and legitimacy conditions that must be adapted to) from ethical invariants (accountability\, contestability\, proportionality that should hold across contexts). \nEvent Host: Mennatullah Hendawy\, Ph.D. Student\, Computational Media  \nAdvisor: Magy Seif El-Nasr \nZoom- https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/93831600031?pwd=hsnX574bcXVQRZa16sKbX0u7OuaMlu.1 \nPasscode-459844
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/hendawy-m-cm-autonoming-child-online-safety-in-the-age-of-ai-from-control-to-digital-co-agency-across-cultures/
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CATEGORIES:Ph.D. Presentations
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SUMMARY:Statistics Seminar: Evaluating Predictive Algorithms Under Missing Data
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Amanda Coston\, Assistant Professor\, University of California Berkeley \nDescription: Performance evaluation plays a central role in decisions about whether and how predictive algorithms should be deployed in high-stakes settings. Yet\, in many real-world domains\, evaluation is fundamentally difficult: the data available for assessment are often biased\, incomplete\, or noisy\, and the act of deploying a model can itself alter which outcomes are observed. As a result\, standard evaluation practices may substantially misrepresent both overall model performance and disparities across groups. In this talk\, we examine several common threats to valid evaluation—including measurement error\, selection bias\, and distribution shift—and present principled evaluation methods that enable valid performance assessment under these challenges when appropriate conditions are met. \nBio: From UC Berkeley website: Amanda Coston is an assistant professor of statistics at UC Berkeley. Her research addresses real-world data problems that challenge the validity\, reliability\, and equity of algorithmic decision support systems and data-driven policy-making. Her work draws on techniques from causal inference\, machine learning\, and nonparametric statistics. She earned her PhD in machine learning and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University and subsequently completed a postdoc at Microsoft Research on the Machine Learning and Statistics Team. She also holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Princeton in computer science and a certificate in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. \nHosted by: Statistics Department
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/statistics-seminar-evaluating-predictive-algorithms-under-missing-data/2026-03-09/1/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations,Seminars
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