Name: Faculty Forum — The Residential College System and the First-Year Student Experience
Start: 2026-02-11T13:30:00-08:00
End: 2026-02-11T15:30:00-08:00
Location: Stevenson Event Center

Feb 2026
- Fri 6
  - 5:00 pm
    
    Lunar New Year First Friday with Santa Cruz Mahjong Club
- Sat 7
  - 10:00 am
    
    Blueberries for the Home Garden and Small Farm
    
    Sliding scale
  - 11:00 am
    
    First Saturday Tour at the Arboretum
  - 7:30 pm
    
    Ben Verdery, classical guitarist—with the UCSC Guitar Ensemble
    
    FREE and open to the public
- Mon 9
  - 10:40 am
    
    ECE Seminar: Integrated Micro- and Nanosystems for Biosensing, Neural Therapy, and Nanotoxicity
  - 12:30 pm
    
    CM Seminar – “The ‘Social’ Side of Social Virtual Reality”
  - 1:00 pm
    
    Virtual Event
    Li, X. (CSE) – Compute-Efficient Scaling of Fully-Open Visual Encoders
  - 1:30 pm
    
    Career Success Drop-In Coaching at the EOP Office – Winter 2026
  - 4:00 pm
    
    AM Seminar: Data Driven Modeling for Scientific Discovery and Digital Twins
  - 5:30 pm
    
    Building Brotherhood with the Khalil Center
  - 6:30 pm
    
    Virtual Event
    February Slugs and Steins with Distinguished Professor Emeritus John Brown Childs
- Tue 10
  - 9:00 am
    
    Coffee and Convo with Provost Aims
    
    Free
  - 11:00 am
    
    2026 Pre-Health School Fair
  - 2:00 pm
    
    Going Global Sessions
  - 7:00 pm
    
    Drop-In Figure Drawing
    
    FREE and open to the public.
- Wed 11

Last modified: Feb 03, 2026

Feb 2026

Fri 6

Sat 7

Blueberries for the Home Garden and Small Farm

First Saturday Tour at the Arboretum

Ben Verdery, classical guitarist—with the UCSC Guitar Ensemble

Mon 9

ECE Seminar: Integrated Micro- and Nanosystems for Biosensing, Neural Therapy, and Nanotoxicity

CM Seminar – “The ‘Social’ Side of Social Virtual Reality”

Virtual Event
Li, X. (CSE) – Compute-Efficient Scaling of Fully-Open Visual Encoders

Career Success Drop-In Coaching at the EOP Office – Winter 2026

AM Seminar: Data Driven Modeling for Scientific Discovery and Digital Twins

Building Brotherhood with the Khalil Center

Virtual Event
February Slugs and Steins with Distinguished Professor Emeritus John Brown Childs

Tue 10

2026 Pre-Health School Fair

Going Global Sessions

Drop-In Figure Drawing

Wed 11

CSE Colloquium: Incentivized Alignment for Strategic Agents (Human and Otherwise)

Virtual Event
Research Lunch & Learn: NAGPRA, CalNAGPRA, and UC Repatriation policy overview

On the Margins of Empire: The Archaeology of Social Complexities in Lower Akinyele, Southwest Nigeria Ca. 18th- 20th centuries

Centering the Experiences of Undocumented Transfer Students at HSIs: A Brown Bag Presentation by Valeria Alonso Blanco

Faculty Forum — The Residential College System and the First-Year Student Experience