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SUMMARY:BME 280B Seminar: Small changes\, Big consequences: Modulators of Alphavirus Assembly
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Dr. Suchetana (Tuli) Mukhopadhyay\, Professor\, Indiana University \nDescription: N/A \nBio: Suchetana “Tuli” Mukhopadhyay\, Ph.D.\, is a professor in the Department of Biology at Indiana University\, Bloomington. She received her B.A. in chemistry from DePauw University and her Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Following her doctoral studies\, Mukhopadhyay conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center\, focusing on G-protein mediated signaling. She continued her postdoctoral work at Purdue University in structural virology\, where she developed a strong interest in arboviruses. Mukhopadhyay joined Indiana University in 2005\, where she established her research program on the assembly and spread of alphaviruses. \nHosted by: Professor Rebecca Dubois\, BME Department
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/bme-280b-seminar-small-changes-big-consequences-modulators-of-alphavirus-assembly/
LOCATION:Biomedical Sciences Building\, 575 McLaughlin Drive
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations,Seminars
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SUMMARY:Wellness in Action: Healthy Metabolism\, Healthy Heart Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, April 2\, 12:00 PM -12:30 PM \nRegister for the Zoom link. \nHealthy metabolism and heart health play a key role in overall energy\, resilience\, and long-term well-being. This workshop will highlight simple\, everyday habits that support metabolic function and cardiovascular health. \nThis new Wellness in Action workshop series is designed to help you improve your health with a short session with simple tips you can try in your own life. \nRegister here for the Zoom link. The workshop will be recorded\, and a link to the recording will be sent out after the first session. \nIn the follow-up session on Thursday\, April 16 from 12:00 PM -12:30 PM\, you will have the opportunity to share your experience and learn from others in the group. This session will not be recorded. \nFor questions\, please reach out to Ashley Parker\, Health and Well-being Specialist\, at aseparke@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/wellness-in-action-healthy-metabolism-healthy-heart-workshop/2026-04-02/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Digital Accessibility: Presentations and Visual Aids
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Brian McNeilly – Web Accessibility Specialist – UCOP \nPresentations often contain a unique hybrid of static documents and an accompanying live presentation or talk. This interface of live discussions along with a displayed visual document creates a unique tension for accessibility. In this session we will discuss ways to ensure not long that your slide deck is accessible\, but that the whole presentation experience is as accessible as possible. \nLearning Objectives:  \n\nDesign slides using accessible layouts\nAdjust the reading order of content within a slide deck\nEnsure sufficient font size & color contrast\nUnderstand how animations should be used for digital accessibility\nWhat to include on screen vs in the spoken presentation
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/digital-accessibility-presentations-and-visual-aids/
LOCATION:https://UCOP.zoom.us/meeting/register/NM6IpEiSSWmZmGkUONGYYA  
CATEGORIES:Meetings & Conferences
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SUMMARY:M.F.A. Exhibition for Environmental Art & Social Practice (EASP)—"Picking up Shells Amid a Tsunami"
DESCRIPTION:The culminating exhibition of the Environmental Art and Social Practice (EASP) M.F.A. program at UC Santa Cruz presents new projects—Picking up Shells Amid a Tsunami 쓰나미가 밀려오는데\, 조개나 줍고 있네—developed through concentrated inquiry over a two-year period and offers a window into the artists’ unique long-term research projects that expand beyond the gallery space.\n—\nFULL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS\n– Ongoing Exhibition: Thurs..\, April 2–Sat.\, May 2\, 2026\n– Opening Celebration: Thurs.\, April 2\, 5:00–7:00 p.m.\n– Artist Roundtable: Thurs.\, April 23\, 5:00–6:00 p.m.\n—\nADMISSION\n– FREE and open to the public\n– Gallery hours are Tues.–Sun.noon–5:00 p.m (closed Mondays)\n—\nPARKING\n– Lot 124 & 125 are the closest parking lots to the event.\n– Parking is by permit or ParkMobile.\n– Refer to TAPS for more parking information.\n—\nABOUT THE EXHIBITION \nNotes from the EASP cohort: \n“The phrase evokes a scene in which\, amid an approaching catastrophe\, someone appears to be idly picking up seashells. In South Korea\, it gained political currency during the 2017 presidential impeachment protests\, when feminist\, disability rights\, and animal rights groups were criticized for bringing their demands into the demonstrations. Their interventions were dismissed as distractions—acts of “picking up shells” at a moment when the sole priority was said to be the president’s removal. \n“We choose to pick up shells nonetheless. Not because the crisis is small\, but because the shells matter. They are the body of the future\, what accumulates slowly\, what endures. One day\, shells become mountains\, and mountains become home. To pick up shells is not to turn away from urgency\, but to insist on a future beyond it. \n“This exhibition comes together through an insistence on the opposite premise: that picking up shells while disaster is at our doorstep is not a distraction\, but a necessity. What gets dismissed as marginal\, secondary\, a mere luxury\, or mistimed\, is precisely where social and political life becomes livable and where dreams\, desire and the imagination open lines of flight towards other worlds. \n“Waves can level buildings once on the shore\, dragging and revealing the damage as they recede. Rather than turning away from the storm\, we acknowledge the multilayered and epistemic devastation caused by centuries of colonial\, patriarchal\, racist violence upon people\, earth and more than human life. We witness the ongoing bifurcation of human and nature that is sedimented into our lives\, languages and social\, material\, infrastructures. \n“The act of bending down to gather shells\, ردم\,  fragments\, sounds\, 뼈\, blue bottles\, grotta\, relationships\, bodies\, cries—composes a score that moves towards forms of care through minor gestures\, embodiment\, ritual\, ofrendas\, listening and beholding.  Mundane and everyday poetics do not negate the scale of devastation and loss\, nor do they refuse engagement. Rather\, they bear witness. They reveal pathways towards endurance\, negotiation\, memory and imagination beyond colonial catastrophe. In this sense\, the exhibition reframes the tsunami not as a singular event or metaphor\, but an invitation us to behold\, actively look\, to sit within the textures of tectonic plates and energy flows\, at the conjuncture where plates meet\, in the flow of energy through tempo\, liquid\, movement\, land\, sound\, ecotone. \n“The wave does not demand one unified response. It forms part of a condition\, a form of everyday accretion\, a movement in and out of different temporalities. Picking up shells while the tsunami unfolds\, amid the tsunami\, alongside the water’s ebbs and flows\, calls us to pay attention to overlooked lives\, stories\, bodies\, memories\, flows and relations\, to transform materials so that they become reconstituted and are able to hold new and ongoing narratives that refuse to remain silent.”
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/easp-2026/
LOCATION:Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery\, Baskin Service Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Exhibits
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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/2026-04-02/
LOCATION:Crown Provost House\, 660 Crown Service Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Social Gathering
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SUMMARY:Beyond public and private: Collaborative governance in global education reform with Antoni Verger and René Espinoza Kissell
DESCRIPTION:We are excited to invite you to join us for a hybrid research talk on collaborative governance with international education scholar and sociologist Dr. Antoni Verger (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) in conversation with Dr. René Espinoza Kissell (UCSC) on Thursday\, April 2\, 2026 at 5pm. \nNeoliberal educational policies aimed at efficiency through competition have often resulted in greater inequality and fragmentation. Can empowering new stakeholders through collaborative networks challenge market logics? Professor of Sociology Antoni Verger will present evidence on international cases of collaborative governance\, where education leaders aim to convene stakeholders\, co-design supports\, and steer improvement collaboratively. Assistant Professor of Education René Espinoza Kissell will provide a local case study of school choice markets in Oakland\, California\, examining the racial politics of school closures and charter school regulation. This will be followed by a discussion on the opportunities and contradictions in global governance shifts\, as well as the tensions between public and private coordination in addressing enduring political challenges. \n Thursday\, April 2nd\, 2026\, 5-6:30PM \n: McHenry 3170 or via Zoom (Meeting ID: 980 6836 8045; Passcode: 330341) \nPlease complete this RSVP form if you plan to attend (food will be provided). \n  \nAbout the Speakers:\nAntoni Verger is Professor of Sociology at the UAB and research fellow at the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA). With a cross-disciplinary training in sociology and education studies\, his research examines the relationship between global governance institutions and education policy – i.e. how education policies are internationally disseminated and enacted in different institutional settings\, and what effects this has on education quality and equity. In recent years\, he has specialized in the study of public-private partnerships\, school autonomy and accountability policies in education. He is one of the lead editors of the World Yearbook of Education and the Journal of Education Policy\, and academic director of the Erasmus Plus awarded Master programme Education Policies for Global Development – GLOBED. \nRené Espinoza Kissell is an Assistant Professor of Educational Policy Studies at UC Santa Cruz. Her scholarship brings together policy\, politics\, and political economy to study issues of power and governance in education. Drawing on critical theories and qualitative methods\, her work centers on school choice and community engagement\, as well as the creation\, management\, and racialized surveillance of school district debt. She recently served as a research expert for the 2025 international evaluation of New Public Education Reform/La Nueva Educación Pública (NEP) in Chile. Her research has been published in Journal of Education Policy\, Educational Policy\, Urban Education\, and Educational Administration Quarterly.  \nWe hope you can join us in welcoming international education scholar Antoni Verger to the UCSC campus!
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/beyond-public-and-private-collaborative-governance-in-global-education-reform-with-antoni-verger-and-rene-espinoza-kissell/
LOCATION:McHenry Library\, 1156 High St\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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SUMMARY:Opening Celebration for EASP M.F.A. Exhibition—"Picking up Shells Amid a Tsunami"
DESCRIPTION:The culminating exhibition of the Environmental Art and Social Practice (EASP) M.F.A. program at UC Santa Cruz presents new projects—Picking up Shells Amid a Tsunami 쓰나미가 밀려오는데\, 조개나 줍고 있네—developed through concentrated inquiry over a two-year period and offers a window into the artists’ unique long-term research projects that expand beyond the gallery space.\n—\nFULL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS\n– Ongoing Exhibition: Thurs..\, April 2–Sat.\, May 2\, 2026\n– Opening Celebration: Thurs.\, April 2\, 5:00–7:00 p.m.\n– Artist Roundtable: Thurs.\, April 23\, 5:00–6:00 p.m.\n—\nADMISSION\n– FREE and open to the public\n– Gallery hours are Tues.–Sun.noon–5:00 p.m (closed Mondays)\n—\nPARKING\n– Lot 124 & 125 are the closest parking lots to the event.\n– Parking is by permit or ParkMobile.\n– Refer to TAPS for more parking information.\n—\nABOUT THE EXHIBITION\n– More exhibition information here.\n—\nThis program is open to all members of the public consistent with state and federal law.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/opening-easp-mfa-2026/
LOCATION:Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery\, Baskin Service Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Exhibits,Lectures & Presentations,Social Gathering
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SUMMARY:The toughest challenges in advanced IC development
DESCRIPTION:Explore the expanding career opportunities in semiconductors\nThe modern economy is powered by silicon and the demand for skilled professionals in semiconductor design and engineering continues to grow. \nIn this live-online discussion with Jignesh Shah\, principal STA & CAD engineer and UCSC Extension instructor\, we’ll explore how Timing Closure in Silicon IC Design prepares engineers to meet one of the toughest challenges in advanced IC development. \nOur expert instructors and carefully designed courses are here to help you achieve your career goals. Bring your questions about how AI is transforming the industry and gain insights into the essential skills needed to build a standout resume. \nThis info session is sponsored by the Silicon Chip Design & Semiconductor Engineering Certificate program at UCSC Silicon Valley Extension. \nClaim your seat!
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/the-toughest-challenges-in-advanced-ic-development/
LOCATION:Silicon Valley Campus\, 3175 Bowers Avenue\, Santa Clara\, CA\, 95054\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations,Meetings & Conferences,Training
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SUMMARY:Colm Toibin – The News From Dublin
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz welcome acclaimed author Colm Tóibín (Long Island\, Brooklyn) for a discussion about The News from Dublin\, a brilliant collection of nine short stories\, many never-before-published\, set across Ireland\, Spain\, and America—about the complexities of family\, longing\, loss\, and love. \n \nCelebrated as “his generation’s most gifted writer of love’s complicated\, contradictory power” ( Los Angeles Times)\, Colm Tóibín is a master of short fiction as well as the novel\, able to summon an extraordinary intensity of emotion in a brief tale. The eleven stories transport readers across continents and eras. \nIn The Journey to Galway\, a mother who has learned of the death of her son\, a fighter pilot in World War I\, travels to Galway to inform his wife and their three now fatherless children. “Sleep\,” originally published in The New Yorker\, explores the rift between two lovers as one of them cannot reckon with his grief and fear after the death of his brother. Death\, again\, is a central character in the title story\, “The News from Dublin\,” as Maurice Webster travels to Dublin to try to save his younger brother who is dying of tuberculosis. Maurice must petition the health minister for access to a new experimental drug\, and this is the only hope. \nColm Tóibín is the author of eleven novels\, including Long Island\, an Oprah’s Book Club Pick; The Magician\, winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize; The Master\, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Brooklyn\, winner of the Costa Book Award; and Nora Webster\, winner of the Hawthornden Prize\, as well as three story collections and several books of criticism. He is the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University and was named the 2022–2024 Laureate for Irish Fiction by the Arts Council of Ireland. In 2021\, he was awarded the David Cohen Prize for Literature. \nMore information at: Bookshop Santa Cruz – Colm Tóibín \n\nCo-sponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/colm-toibin-the-news-from-dublin/
LOCATION:Hay Barn\, 94 Ranch View Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Movie Night Under the Stars: Screening "Castle in the Sky"
DESCRIPTION:The DSAS Office of Leadership and Involvement invite you to join us for our Movie Night Under the Stars event screening the Studio Ghibli movie “Castle in the Sky”: \n\nDate: Thursday\, April 2nd\nScreening Time: 8:00 p.m.\nLocation: Oakes Lower Lawn\n\n*Bring your own blanket* \nThere will be free ramen\, candy\, drinks and activities! For any questions or accommodations\, please email involved@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/movie-night-under-the-stars-screening-castle-in-the-sky/
LOCATION:Oakes Lower Lawn\, Oakes College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Screening
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SUMMARY:Oceans of Dissent: Towards a Feminist Commons Workshop
DESCRIPTION:We gather to forge new vernaculars of the geopolitical\, to assemble spatial imaginaries of the “oceanic” that refuse rather than relent to the insistent march of capital and empire. To dissent here is an invitation to think more about the messiness and stuckness of our intellectual labors across histories of slavery\, indenture\, colonialism and more. This event is open to the campus community. Further details about registration to come. With questions email Sadie Lynn at sklynn@ucsc.edu \nThis workshop put on by the chair of Feminist Studies. Co-sponsored by the Humanities Division\, the Center for South Asian Studies\, and the Center for the Middle East and North Africa. \n 
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/oceans-of-dissent-towards-a-feminist-commons-workshop/
LOCATION:Humanities 1 Building\, 257 Cowell-Stevenson Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:BME 80G Seminar: To Infinity and Beyond? Ethical\, legal\, and social issues of human research in space”
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Vaso Rahimzadeh\, Assistant Professor\, Baylor College of Medicine \nDescription: As humans venture farther into outer space\, new scientific discovery awaits including in genomics; but so do new ethical dilemmas.  Who bears the risks (and rewards) of space exploration and how should humanity ethically expand beyond our planet? This session will have students think critically about the ethical\, legal\, and social issues of human genomic research in space and offer frameworks for analyzing them. Students will learn about the contemporary challenges and opportunities of genomic research for the upcoming lunar missions\, and in anticipation of future Mars exploration. \nBio: I am Assistant Professor at the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Baylor College of Medicine. In my National Institutes of Health-funded research\, I investigate the ethical\, legal\, and social issues of health data sharing on earth and in space. I aim to inform policy and practice in ways that maximize the scientific value of data while respecting the rights and interests of individuals and communities. I director the METEORS program (Mission to Enhance eThics Education\, Outreach\, and Research in Space) and serve on the Bioethics Advisory Panel for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). I am a proud UC alum\, earning my BS in Microbial Biology from UC Berkeley in 2012\, and hold a PhD from McGill University with a specialization in biomedical ethics. You can read more about my background and read my work here. \nHosted by: Professor Karen Miga\, BME Department
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/bme-80g-seminar-to-infinity-and-beyond-ethical-legal-and-social-issues-of-human-research-in-space/
LOCATION:Jack Baskin Auditorium\, 191 Baskin Cir\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations,Seminars
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SUMMARY:UC Santa Cruz Alumni at the Sacramento Kings
DESCRIPTION:Head to a Sacramento Kings game with fellow UC Santa Cruz alumni on Friday\, April 3. Sit together\, cheer loudly\, and connect with Sacramento Slugs at Golden1 Center! \nClick here to purchase tickets in our section. \n 
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/uc-santa-cruz-alumni-at-the-sacramento-kigns/
LOCATION:Golden1 Center\, 500 David J Stern Walk\, Sacramento\, 95814\, United States
CATEGORIES:Social Gathering
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SUMMARY:The Garden - Quarry Amphitheater (April 3rd)
DESCRIPTION:Tickets are on sale at quarryamphitheater.com\, starting at $49.04 for general admission\, and $72.11 VIP seating. \nTHE GARDEN IS A CONSTANTLY EVOLVING BAND ORIGINALLY FROM ORANGE COUNTY\, CALIFORNIA. ESTABLISHED IN 2011 BY WYATT AND FLETCHER SHEARS. THEY HAVE BEEN TOURING SINCE 2012 AND HAVE PLAYED IN DIFFERENT REGIONS INCLUDING THE UNITED KINGDOM\, EUROPE\, UNITED STATES\, ASIA\, AUSTRALIA\, MEXICO & CANADA\, THEY CREATED THE TERM\, “VADA VADA” IN 2011 TO REPRESENT THEIR MUSIC AND OTHER CREATIONS. VADA VADA IS A TERM THAT REPRESENTS TOTAL FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION WITHOUT BOUNDARIES OR GUIDELINES OF ANY SORT. THEY HAVE BECOME KNOWN FOR THEIR ENERGETIC AND OFF THE WALL PERFORMANCES AROUND THE WORLD\, AND ARE PROLIFICALLY TOURING\, RELEASING MUSIC AND OTHER CONTENT.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/the-garden-quarry-amphitheater-april-3rd/
LOCATION:Upper Quarry Amphitheater\, 15 McLaughlin Drive\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Concerts,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/2026-04-04/
LOCATION:Arboretum\, 122 Arboretum Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260404T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260404T150000
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SUMMARY:Suzanne Simard – When the Forest Breathes
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes bestselling author Suzanne Simard (Finding the Mother Tree)\, a scientist who pioneered the concept of sophisticated communication between trees. Simard will share her highly anticipated new book When the Forest Breathes\, in which she offers a powerful vision for saving our forests based on nature’s deep-rooted cycles of renewal. \n“A masterclass on the inner workings of forests. . . . This is science as an act of love for the world.” —Zoë Schlanger\, author of The Light Eaters \n \nRaised in a family of loggers committed to sensible forest stewardship\, trailblazing ecologist Suzanne Simard has watched as timber companies leave forests at higher risk for wildfires\, water crises\, and plant and animal extinction. But her research has the potential to chart a new course. The forest\, she reveals\, is a symphony of finely honed cycles of regeneration—from mushrooms breaking down logs to dying elder trees passing their genetic knowledge to younger ones—that hold the key to protecting our forests. Working closely with local Indigenous communities\, whose models of responsible forestry have been largely dismissed\, Simard examines how human interventions—particularly destruction of the overstory’s mother trees—endanger new growth and longevity. If we can honor the tools that trees have honed for sharing intergenerational wisdom\, she argues\, we can protect these sacred places for many years to come. \nDr. Suzanne Simard is the New York Times bestselling author of Finding the Mother Tree. She is a Professor of Forest Ecology at the University of British Columbia\, where she leads The Mother Tree Project and co-directs the Belowground Ecosystem Group. Dr. Simard has earned a global reputation for pioneering research on tree connectivity and communication and the productivity\, health\, and biodiversity of forests. Her work has been published widely\, with over 170 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals\, including Nature\, Ecology\, and Global Biology\, and she has co-authored the book Climate Change and Variability. Her research has been communicated broadly through three TED Talks\, TED Experiences\, as well as articles and interviews in The New Yorker\, National Geographic\, NPR\, CNN\, and many more. She lives with her family in the mountains around Nelson\, British Columbia. \nMore information at: Bookshop Santa Cruz – Suzanne Simard \nThis event is cosponsored by the UC Santa Cruz Arboretum & Botanic Garden and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/suzanne-simard-when-the-forest-breathes/
LOCATION:Hay Barn\, 94 Ranch View Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260406T140000
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SUMMARY:Tax Workshops for International Students & Scholars
DESCRIPTION:International Student Services and Programming (ISSP) will be hosting two tax-related sessions for international students and scholars in the coming months\, including a hands-on workshop for anyone who wants support while working through the filing process. We understand that filing taxes can be daunting\, so our office is here to provide resources to make this process easier. \nGLACIER tax prep staff from and graduate peer mentors will be available to help you one-on-one as you complete your tax filing steps. \n\n\nHands-on Tax Workshop #1\nDate: Monday\, March 9\nTime: 12:30 – 14:00\nLocation: Graduate Student Commons (entrance next to Cafe Iveta) \n\n\nWorkshop #2 will take place on Monday\, April 6\, at the same time and location \n\n\nHave any tax questions or topics you’d like us to address at the beginning of each workshop? Submit your questions here\, and we’ll highlight them with the group. Even if you can’t make it to either session\, feel free to still ask us your general questions\, and we’ll update everyone with common themes we’re noticing. \nPlease note that ISSP staff are not tax experts and are legally prohibited from giving you tax advice. It is your responsibility to determine how to file your taxes and/or find a tax preparation service.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/tax-workshops-for-international-students-scholars/2026-04-06/
LOCATION:Graduate Student Commons\, 420 Hagar Drive\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Drop-In Support
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: Sotong and Against this Messy World
DESCRIPTION:On April 6\, 2026\, the Graduate Training in Southeast Asia (GETSEA) consortium and UCSC’s Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions will host two short films highlighting the challenges to art and expression in Malaysia’s complex political\, legal\, and societal landscape. \nSotong follows four fierce local drag queens who were part of the 2022 Halloween party raided by the authorities. One of them\, Juan\, was arrested for ‘a man dressing up as a woman’. Two years later\, they revisit on the fallout of that night as they continue to perform underground and nurture the Malaysian drag scene in all its beauty\, joy\, and pain. \nAgainst This Messy World is a deeply introspective and visually captivating short documentary that delves into the heart and soul of artistic expression in Malaysia. A personal exploration\, narrated by Malaysian artists\, this documentary takes viewers on an evocative journey to understand the essence and purpose of being an artist in a world marked by chaos and uncertainty and piece together conversations and unfiltered moments in their lives. \nUniversities from across North America will come together to watch the films simultaneously\, then connect via Zoom with the filmmakers for a post-screening discussion. Please join us in conversation!
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/film-screening-sotong-and-against-this-messy-world/
LOCATION:Humanities 1 Building\, 257 Cowell-Stevenson Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Book Talk with independent Indian journalist Neha Dixit! The Many Lives of Syeda X: The Story of an Unknown Indian
DESCRIPTION:Save the date! On Monday April 6th\, you are invited to meet with Neha Dixit\, an independent Indian journalist and author based in New Delhi.  \nFrom 2:30-4:00 PM in the Rachel Carson College Red Room\, join the Sociology Department together with the Center for South Asian Studies\, Center for Labor and Community\, and Sikh and Punjabi Studies\, who will hear about Neha’s new book The Many Lives of Syeda X: The Story of an Unknown Indian (Footnote\, 2025). The book would be of interest to urban studies and labor studies scholars\, students and staff as well as\, of course\, those interested in South Asia and the Global South more generally. \nJoin the Sociology Department together with the Center for South Asian Studies\, Center for Labor and Community\, and Sikh and Punjabi Studies\, in the Rachel Carson College Red Room\, who will meet with Neha Dixit\, an independent Indian journalist and author based in New Delhi . We’ll hear about her new book The Many Lives of Syeda X: The Story of an Unknown Indian (Footnote\, 2025). \nAbout The Many Lives of Syeda X: The Story of an Unknown Indian \nWhat does the life of an ordinary working-class Indian look and feel like? In this book\, the award-winning journalist Neha Dixit traces the story of one such faceless Indian woman\, from the early 1990s to the present day. What emerges is a picture of a life lived under constant corrosive tension. Syeda X\, a weaver left Benares for Delhi with her alcoholic husband and three small children in the aftermath of riots triggered by the demolition of the Babri Masjid. In Delhi\, she settled into the life of a poor migrant\, juggling multiple jobs a day — from trimming the loose threads of jeans to cooking namkeen\, and from shelling almonds to making tea strainers. Syeda has done over 50 types of unskilled work in three decades\, earning paltry sums in the process. And if she ever took leave\, to nurse an illness or to attend a school PTA meeting\, her job would be lost to another faceless migrant fighting to take her place.  \nResearched for close to a decade\, in this book\, we meet an unforgettable cast of characters: from a rickshaw driver in Chandni Chowk who ends up tragically dead in a terrorist blast to a slumlord\, who grew ‘too big’ for his own good\, and is shot by rival landlords. From a doctor who gets arrested for pre-natal sex determination to a gow rakshak whose daughter elopes with Syeda’s son. From corrupt policemen who delight in beating young Muslim men to a cheerful band of home-based working women who look out for each other.  \nIn the end\, things come to a grotesque full circle for Syeda. Her life is upturned for the umpteenth time as the Delhi riots of 2020 caused another cataclysmic displacement. But displacement\, tragedy and hardship are something she is used to — being poor and Muslim and a woman. Written with deep insight\, The Many Lives of Syeda X is a portal to a messy world hidden away from elite Indians. It is the story of untold millions and a searing account of urban life in New India.  \nGet Your Copy \nPublished in 2024 by Juggernaut Books in South Asia\, in 2025 by Footnote\, an imprint of Bonner Book UK worldwide excluding North America. The Many Lives of Syeda X: The Story of an Unknown Indian can be purchased from Footnote. \nAbout Neha Dixit \nNeha Dixit is an independent journalist and author based in New Delhi. She has covered politics\, gender\, and social justice for two decades. Most of her work is investigative\, narrative and long-form. She reports for Al Jazeera\, The Washington Post\, Caravan\, The Wire and other notable publications. \nShe has investigated and exposed a wide range of human rights violations including extrajudicial killings by police\, hate crimes\, human trafficking involving Sangh organisations\, clinical trials on the marginalised by big pharma and sectarian majoritarian violence in South Asia. She has also written political profiles and looked at intersections of labour under majoritarian governments. \nShe has won over a dozen international and national journalism awards including the International Press Freedom Award 2019 from the Committee to Protect Journalists\, the Chameli Devi Jain Award for Outstanding Woman Journalist 2017\, Lorenzo Natali Prize for Journalism from the European Commission\, 2011 among others. She has contributed to many non-fiction anthologies. \n‘The Many Lives of Syeda X’ published her debut non-fiction book. It looks at the last 30 years of India through the eyes of a working-class\, migrant Muslim woman in Delhi who becomes a part of the cheap female labour economy and takes up over 50 jobs in three decades without once getting paid a minimum wage. Researched for close to a decade\, it is a portal to a messy world hidden away from elite Indians. It is the story of untold millions and a searing account of urban life in New India.  \nThe book was selected as the book of the year 2024 by The Hindu and Deccan Herald. Neha won the Ramnath Goenka Sahitya Samman award and Kalinga Literary best debut award for this book. The book also received an Honorable Mention by the CG Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing in 2026. \nHonourable Mention by CG Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing\, 2026 \nFaced with a record number of high-quality submissions and a remarkable shortlist\, the Jury would like to recognise another very close contender for the prize. An Honourable Mention goes to The Many Lives of Syeda X by Neha Dixit (Footnote Press\, India)\, an examination of the life of an ordinary\, working-class Muslim woman in modern India. Syeda’s story is told through her 50 different jobs across 30 years of constant corrosive tension. Her many challenges illustrate the universality of the human rights abuses that much of the world’s population face in their daily lives.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/book-talk-dixit/
LOCATION:Rachel Carson College Red Room
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SUMMARY:Statistics Seminar: Some Recent Results on Transfer Learning
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Oscar Hernan Madrid Padilla\, Assistant Professor\, University of California\, Los Angeles \nDescription: In the first part of the talk\, I will introduce TRansfer leArning via guideD horseshoE prioR (TRADER)\, a novel approach enabling multi-source transfer through pre-trained models in high-dimensional linear regression. TRADER shrinks target parameters towards a weighted average of source estimates\, accommodating sources with different scales. Theoretical investigation shows that TRADER achieves faster posterior contraction rates than standard continuous shrinkage priors when sources align well with the target while preventing negative transfer from heterogeneous sources. Extensive numerical studies and a real-data application demonstrate that TRADER improves estimation and inference accuracy over state-of-the-art transfer learning methods. In the second part of the talk\, I will discuss some ongoing work involving transfer learning in nonparametric regression with ReLU networks \nBio: Oscar Madrid Padilla is a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of California\, Los Angeles. Previously\, from July 2017 to June 2019\, he was a Neyman Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of California\, Berkeley. Before that\, he earned his Ph.D. in Statistics from The University of Texas at Austin in May 2017 under the supervision of Professor James Scott. He completed his undergraduate degree\, a B.S. in Mathematics\, at CIMAT in Mexico in April 2013. \nHosted by: Statistics Department 
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/statistics-seminar-some-recent-results-on-transfer-learning/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations,Seminars
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SUMMARY:AM Seminar: The Thinking Eye: AI That Sees\, Reads\, and Reasons in Medicine
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Yuyin Zhou\, Assistant Professor\, UCSC \nDescription: Medical AI is undergoing a profound transformation\, evolving from simple pattern recognition to systems capable of complex clinical reasoning. This talk will chart this evolution across three dimensions: data\, models\, and evaluation. I will first highlight the shift from limited\, unimodal datasets to massive multimodal resources. In particular\, I will introduce MedTrinity-25M—a novel collection of over 25 million richly annotated medical images that serves as a foundation for multimodal tasks such as visual question answering and report generation. Building on this\, I will describe how grounding decision processes in a structured medical knowledge graph enables the generation of high-fidelity reasoning chains. Using these chains\, we construct a large-scale medical reasoning dataset\, which in turn allows us to develop a new class of reasoning models. These models not only achieve state-of-the-art performance on multiple clinical Q&A benchmarks but also produce reasoning outputs that physicians across seven specialties have independently verified as clinically reliable\, interpretable\, and more factually accurate than existing large language models. Finally\, the talk will offer a deep dive into the critical evaluation of these advanced models\, moving beyond standard benchmarks to expose their current limitations—particularly in interpreting dynamic clinical scenarios such as tracking disease progression from temporal image sequences. To foster a holistic understanding of the mechanisms underlying these reasoning models\, I will introduce a new evaluation framework that examines performance from two complementary perspectives: their grasp of static knowledge versus their capacity for dynamic reasoning. Together\, these advances point toward a future where AI systems can holistically analyze patient information and function as true collaborative partners in complex medical decision-making. \nBio: Yuyin Zhou is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at UC Santa Cruz. Her research interests lie at the intersection of machine learning and computer vision\, with a primary focus on AI for healthcare and scientific discovery. Her work (70+ peered-reviewed publications with18\,000+ citations) has been recognized with honors including 2025 Google Research Scholar Award\, Best Paper Award at KDD 2025 Health Day and at Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics 2024\, 2023 Hellman Fellowship\, Best Paper Honorable Mention at DART 2022\, and finalist recognition for the MICCAI Young Scientist Publication Impact Award in 2022. Beyond her research\, Yuyin has organized over 20 workshops and tutorials at major conferences including ICML\, MICCAI\, ML4H\, ICCV\, CVPR\, and ECCV\, with coverage in media outlets such as ICCV Daily and Computer Vision News. She serves as a regular Area Chair for CVPR\, ICLR\, MICCAI\, CHIL\, and ISBI\, an associate editor for SPIE medical imaging\, Image and Vision Computing\, and was the Doctoral Consortium Chair for WACV 2025. \nHosted by: Applied Mathematics Department
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/am-seminar-the-thinking-eye-ai-that-sees-reads-and-reasons-in-medicine/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations,Seminars
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260407T110000
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SUMMARY:Coffee with Provost Aims
DESCRIPTION:Warm greetings and hot coffee are served by Provost Aims and Poppy the Merrill Chihuahua each Tuesday in April. Breakfast snacks\, tea\, and cocoa too.  \nStop by and say “hi” \nOutside of the Merrill Mailroom\, Merrill College
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/coffee-with-provost-aims/2026-04-07/
LOCATION:Merrill College Office\, 641 Merrill Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Social Gathering
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260407T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260407T170000
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SUMMARY:Community Day: Free Admission at the Arboretum
DESCRIPTION:The first Tuesday of each month\, the Arboretum is open without charge to visitors. See dates and times UC Santa Cruz Arboretum & Botanic Garden is open. NOTE: Due to limited parking at the Arboretum and the popularity of Community Day\, we greatly encourage visitors to carpool\, bike\, walk or use public transportation as much as possible.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/community-day-free-admission-at-the-arboretum/2026-04-07/
LOCATION:Arboretum\, 122 Arboretum Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260407T114000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260407T131500
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SUMMARY:Next Wave of Faculty in Genomics Symposium
DESCRIPTION:The BME Department and Genomics Institute are once again hosting our annual Next Wave of Faculty in Genomics Symposium\, which will be held on April 7th from 11:40–1:15 in E2 180. Please join us to hear cutting-edge genomics talks from outstanding postdocs from around the country! \nA burrito reception catered by Alebrije’s will follow immediately after the talks. Registration is free\, but required\, so please RSVP HERE!  \nThis year’s speakers include:  \n\nDr. Yutong Wang\, UC San Francisco\nTalk title: “A genome-wide CRISPR activation screen of surface protein expression in primary human CD4 T cells”\nDr. Ian Traniello\, Princeton\nTalk title: “The Making of a Queen: Neurogenomic Building Blocks of Social Dominance in Bee Societies”\nDr. Alex Cope\, Vanderbilt University\nTalk title: “Unlocking the rules of proteome evolution by integrating evolutionary theory\, mechanistic models\, and functional genomics”\nDr. Conner Langeberg\, UC Berkeley\nTalk title: “Interpreting RNA Foundation Models to Reveal Structure\, Function\, and Biological Organization”
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/next-wave-of-faculty-in-genomics-symposium/
LOCATION:Jack Baskin Engineering\, Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
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SUMMARY:The Art of Attar: A SWANA Fragrance Workshop
DESCRIPTION:The Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center is celebrating SWANA Heritage Month with a series of events! Learn about the origins of perfumery and its cultural relevance in SWANA culture\, as you create your own custom fragrance and enjoy Dave’s Hot Chicken. \nTuesday\, April 7th\nTime: 5-6:30 PM\nRachel Carson’s Red Room \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/art-of-attar/
LOCATION:Rachel Carson College Red Room
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SUMMARY:Indigenous Language Revitalization
DESCRIPTION:Join the American Indian Resource Center for Indigenous Language Revitalization on April 7\, 2026\, from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn. This presentation explores the history of land\, language\, and cultural loss\, alongside current efforts in revitalization and everyday practice. We will share perspectives on language curriculum\, cultural resurgence\, and mechanisms sustaining this work. Featuring speakers Tracy Eastman and Dr. Sandhya Narayanan\, the session will transition into a panel conversation on pre-colonial transcontinental trade\, communication\, and their relevance today. \nRegister for the Indigenous Language Revitalization event \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/indigenous-language-revitalization/
LOCATION:Hay Barn\, 94 Ranch View Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
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SUMMARY:History of Science Lecture with Jennifer Derr
DESCRIPTION:World Wounds: The Damming of the Nile River and the Transformation of Medicine\nThe damming of the Nile River transformed agriculture and human health in 20th-century Egypt. While dams enabled year-round irrigation and provided hydroelectricity\, the prevalence of parasitic disease also skyrocketed. Professor Derr explores the effects of damming the Nile on the health of Egyptians and the impact of large-scale environmental transformation on the knowledge and practice that made medicine during the 20th century. \nRegister to attend in-person or virtual\nIn Person Reception: 5:30 p.m.\nLecture 6 p.m.\nIn-person and virtual\nFree and open to the public\nParking is $6 \n  \nThe 2026 Nauenberg History of Science Lecture is presented by the UC Santa Cruz Emeriti Association and co-sponsored by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa\, History Department\, Humanities Division\, Environmental Studies Department\, Science and Justice Research Center\, and The Humanities Institute. \n  \n  \n \nJennifer Derr is an associate professor in the History Department at UC Santa Cruz. Her first book\, The Lived Nile: Environment\, Disease\, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt\, won the Middle East Political Economy Book Prize. In 2019\, the National Science Foundation awarded Derr a History of Science at the Interface of Biomedical and Environmental Concerns CAREER grant to support her research. In 2024-25\, she was a fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/history-of-science-lecture-with-jennifer-derr/
LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall\, 400 McHenry Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
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SUMMARY:Yoga as Healing Series
DESCRIPTION:Yoga as Healing is a 7-session trauma-informed yoga and mindfulness program hosted by UCSC’s CARE office. Spring Quarter classes will be held Tuesdays\, 6:00–7:30 p.m. from March 31–May 12. Classes are free for students. \nEach class facilitated by CARE Advocate Abbey Wise (she/ella)\, includes gentle\, trauma-informed movement\, breathwork\, meditation and reflective journaling to support survivors in reconnecting with their bodies\, building confidence and being present. Mats\, blocks\, blankets and journals are provided. Participants are encouraged to wear comfortable clothing and bring a water bottle. \nCARE aims to build a consistent group of 8-10 survivors who can attend all 7 classes to foster the community\, predictability and safety core to the trauma-informed structure of the program. \nIf you are interested in participating submit an application and a CARE Advocate will get back to you with further information. Location will be provided upon approval to participate. \nCheck out our schedule for the series: \n3/31   — Orientation and Intention\n4/7 — Safety & Grounding\n4/14   —Self-Care as Daily Practice\n4/21   — Embodied Boundaries\n4/28  — Self-Compassion\n5/5    — Inner Strength & Trust\n5/12  — Cultivating Community \nIf you have previously attended Yoga as Healing\, we would love to hear from you. Please complete our short\, anonymous survey —your feedback helps us grow and improve our programming.  \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/yoga-as-healing/2026-04-07/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Social Gathering,Undergraduate,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Research Lunch & Learn: SBIR/STTR
DESCRIPTION:Join us on April 8\, 2026\, 12-1 p.m. for a session led by Benjamin Legum\, Director\, New Venture Development. Small Business Innovation Research/Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) grants are offered by most federal agencies to foster the translation of high-tech solutions to commercial applications. This session provides a comprehensive introduction to the federal SBIR/STTR programs that offer non-dilutive funding to help small businesses develop and commercialize high-impact technologies. Participants will learn the fundamental differences between the two programs\, including eligibility requirements\, the three-phase funding structure\, and best practices for identifying agency-specific opportunities that align with their innovative research. \nJoin: Zoom link for this session.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/research-lunch-learn-sbir-sttr/
LOCATION:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/research-lunch-learn-sbir-sttr/
CATEGORIES:Training
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260408T160000
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SUMMARY:Global Cafe: Spring 2026
DESCRIPTION:International Student Services & Programming invites you to our monthly Global Cafe\, a space for all international-minded community members to connect. Swing by for some refreshments and an opportunity to meet other international students and scholars\, as well as Global Engagement staff. Feel free to drop in at any time between 14:00 – 16:00 and stay for as long as you’d like. \nOur spring Global Cafe dates: \n\nWednesday\, April 8\nWednesday\, May 6\nWednesday\, June 3
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/global-cafe-spring-2026/2026-04-08/
LOCATION:Classroom Unit\, Classroom Unit\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, Select a Country:
CATEGORIES:Drop-In Support
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