Events

Ecosystem of Care Webinar: Dining Services
2025-07-16 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | CA
The DSAS Ecosystem of Care webinar series continues with a spotlight on Dining Services—your guide to how students dine on campus at UC Santa Cruz. Designed for families, this session will feature campus dining leaders sharing details about meal plans, dining hall hours and locations, menu variety, dietary accommodations, and tips for helping students make the most of their on-campus dining experience.
The webinar will begin with a short presentation, followed by a Q&A based on questions submitted through the registration form.
Join us to learn how UCSC Dining supports your student’s day-to-day life and discover helpful information to stay connected to their college journey.
Registration: In advance, via Zoom

Rainbow Slugs Staff Virtual Lunch Get-together
2025-07-16 12:00 | CA
Hello! Please join us for a virtual lunch time hang-out so that folks can gather, decompress, and be in community. We encourage folks to eat their lunch while we meet, but you can do whatever is most comfortable to you! Any level of participation is welcome. Hope to see you there! 🙂
Rainbow Slugs is UCSC's LGBTQIA2S+ Staff Affinity group. Anyone is welcome.

July Slugs and Steins with Campus Architect Emeritus Frank Zwart (Cowell, ’71)
2025-07-14 18:30 | CA
The Imagining and Making of a University Campus at Santa Cruz
Every alum has a story about how he or she first discovered and came to UC Santa Cruz. But the story of how the University of California came to Santa Cruz is a longer and much more involved one. Step into the Wayback Machine with UCSC’s Campus Architect Emeritus Frank Zwart (Cowell ’71) to hear the details of how the University’s Regents selected Santa Cruz as the site for their bold new experiment in public higher education, and learn about the University's first steps in building its new home. Along the way you’ll pick up some interesting UCSC architectural history trivia and some hidden jewels from the campus archives.
Frank Zwart, FAIA, FAUA, served as campus architect at the University of California, Santa Cruz, from 1988 until his retirement in 2010. Under his direction, the campus nearly doubled in size, adding nearly 2.4 million square feet of building space and renovating one million more, while preserving its breathtaking site. A Pasadena, California, native, Frank received his bachelor’s degree in mathematics from UC Santa Cruz (Cowell College) in 1971 and his master’s in architecture from Princeton University. Prior to joining the design and construction staff at UCSC in 1985, he worked in architectural firms in Princeton, Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Aptos, Philadelphia, and Carmel.

Job Search Strategies for New Grads
2025-07-10 14:00 | CA
So you've graduated and now it's time to look for a job, we can help!
Whether you're just starting your search or looking to improve your strategy, this workshop will walk you through how to:

Craft resumes and cover letters that reflect your skills and potential
Use LinkedIn to uncover opportunities and potential mentors
Develop networking skills

You’ll come away with actionable strategies to streamline your application process and make your next move count.
Register here: https://ucsc.joinhandshake.com/stu/events/1757697

Frosh, Friends, and Family: Welcome to the Sciences
2025-07-10 12:00 | CA
This webinar welcomes incoming science students and families to the Sciences. Meet the Science Excellence team and learn about key summer events, advising support, and resources to prepare for a strong start. We’ll also discuss science majors and how families can support students during the transition. Register here to receive a Zoom link!

Move More at Work: Promoting Health and Longevity in the Office
2025-07-10 12:00 | CA
Thursday, July 10, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
If you spend your days at a desk, chances are you are aware of common issues like tech neck, eye strain, and carpal tunnel syndrome. Long hours at a desk can take a toll on your body — but small changes can make a big difference. This workshop is all about helping you feel better during your workday. We’ll explore how to ease muscle tension, boost your energy, and stay more focused with easy, equipment-free routines you can do right at your desk, even in work clothes. If you're looking to move more, sit less, and feel more comfortable throughout your day, this session offers a low-stress way to start building healthy habits right where you are.
To register, please fill out the registration link. This presentation will be recorded and made available after the meeting.
For more information about upcoming workshops and events, please visit the Wellness Event Calendar.
For questions, please contact Health and Well-being Specialist, Ashley Parker, at aseparke@ucsc.edu.

Research Lunch & Learn - Federal research policy updates
2025-07-09 12:00 | CA
The administration transition has created a whirlwind of federal agency and policy changes, much of which has significant impacts on universities and research. Join John MacMillan, Vice Chancellor for Research, and Csilla Csaplár, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research, on July 9, 12-1 p.m. for an interactive discussion about current hot topics in the federal policy world.

Records Disposition Day
2025-07-08 00:00 | CA
The Records and Information Management (RIM) office invites your unit to participate in Records Disposition Day on Thursday, July 10, 2025. Disposition Day is an annual event that encourages the safe, secure destruction of inactive, confidential university records and the transfer of historical records to the University Archives while promoting the UCSC Records Management Program and policies.
Sign up no later than July 1, 2025, through this Google Form. Shred bins will be delivered to your office by our certified, confidential shredding company, on Tuesday, July 8, and picked up on Thursday, July 10. Please note that someone will need to be in your office on both days. We strongly encourage the use of our same-day-turnaround option on July 10 for those who are prepared to fill the bin and have it taken away all at one time.
Important Procedures for Records Disposition:

Familiarize yourself with retention timelines for email, messaging apps, and other quick communication platforms.
Collect your inactive records for pick-up (confidential, non-records, past retention) in accordance with the UC Records Retention Schedule.
Inactive records of historical value should be reviewed in consultation with the University Archivist for possible transfer to the University Archives. See http://guides.library.ucsc.edu/UARCtransfer or contact the University Archivist for guidance in assessing the historical value of your records.
For each paper record purged, the corresponding electronic record must be purged as well.
Never put confidential, personally identifiable information (PII), or information that could be inappropriately used into an open public recycle container. Use the locked shred bins that are delivered to your office before Dispo Day and store them within a locked office until they are picked up. CD’s and DVD’s should be collected in a separate box for pickup; please don’t put them in the shred bin.
DO NOT destroy records that are under a Public Records request, pending or foreseeable litigation or investigation activity, or under audit.
Enjoy a more spacious and clutter-free work area knowing that you have complied with the UC Records Retention Schedule!

Please contact Diane Lallemand at diane@ucsc.edu for more information.

Dong, Q. (STAT) - Prevalence Mapping and Model Evaluation for Binary and Categorical Outcomes from Household Surveys
2025-07-03 13:00 | CA
Reliable subnational estimates of health and demographic indicators from household surveys are crucial for understanding public health progress, especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), where vital registration data are limited, and household surveys serve as the primary source of information. We develop a principled workflow for prevalence mapping using household survey data, addressing all stages of analysis. We then propose a generalizable model comparison framework for prevalence mapping in the absence of ground truth. Specifically, we develop cross-validation schemes for small area estimation (SAE), preserving stratification and clustering structures from the complex survey design. We introduce error metrics that enable the evaluation of models based on their accuracy in estimating finite-population prevalence at the target level of inference. Through simulation studies, we demonstrate that conventional practices such as leave-one-area-out (LOAO) cross-validation or comparisons based on aggregated estimates can lead to misleading conclusions. In contrast, our proposed frameworks can more accurately rank SAE models. Finally, we extend the prevalence mapping framework to accommodate categorical and ordinal outcomes. For area-level models, we apply continuation-ratio logit transformations to design-based direct estimates and model the transformed outcomes using a multivariate Fay–Herriot model. We explore modeling the dependence structures between spatial regions and outcome categories through structured random effects. We also explore extending similar random effect construction to unit-level models, where we directly model cluster-level categorical response.
Event Host: Qianyu Dong, Ph.D. Student, Statistical Science
Advisor: Zehang Richard Li

Community Day: Free Admission at the Arboretum
2025-07-01 09:00 - 17:00, 2025-06-03 09:00 - 17:00, 2025-05-06 09:00 - 17:00, 2025-04-01 09:00 - 17:00, 2025-03-04 09:00 - 17:00, 2025-02-04 09:00 - 17:00 | Arboretum, 122 Arboretum Road, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064
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.

Summer Session Dates and Deadlines
2025-06-24 00:00 | CA
The summer quarter has accelerated deadlines for students to add/swap, drop, or request a W grade. Check the summer academic calendar to make sure you do not miss a deadline!

"All the Pages Are My Days": Print and Visual Culture of the Grateful Dead in Context
2025-05-28 00:00 | McHenry Library, 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064
This exhibition celebrates the art and print material generated by the Grateful Dead and their fans in the context of the printing explosion of the 1960s and ‘70s. As the Dead came into popularity and an anti-establishment counterculture spread throughout the nation, democratic print technologies were concomitantly adopted into widespread use. In the Bay Area and beyond, activists, experimental poets, and psychedelic artists took advantage of spirit duplicators, mimeographs, and other accessible technologies to create and disseminate works of self-expression and political action. This exhibition focuses on the social life of printed materials, placing the Dead’s print culture in cultural and political situ.
In the 1960s, a new generation of young people–products of the post-war baby boom who by then formed a sizable segment of the overall U.S. population–were bristling against convention and finding their voice. As the civil rights and worldwide independence movements achieved momentum and the “New Left” found ideological purchase, activists identified new means of sharing vital information through the creation of alternative publications and an underground press. The mainstream–or “overground”–press took notice:
The information officers of the New American Left have rediscovered an ancient political ally: print power. All over the country, radical and "movement" organizations have spawned their own print shops run by their own pressmen to churn out an increasing number of posters, pamphlets, handbills, and flyers. Whether it's to mobilize a march on Washington, explain the advantages of "Free Speech" for GIs, or advertise courses at an alternative university, the rebel presses are rolling. By the thousands, their folded-and-stapled brochures, decorated with crude graphics, are being given away at hastily set up campus tables or sold in the standard subculture outlets (Associated Press 1970).
Radical print shops popped up in the Bay Area and spread internationally, circulating a wide network of print material engaged with politics, art and literature, and prodigious social change. As revolutionary ideas spread, artists experimented with the expressive capacities of emergent print technologies, collectively crafting an unconventional and acrobatically imaginative graphic identity.
The exploratory, democratic, and liberatory attitude expressed in the print culture of the period was reflected across genres of artmaking, and was to be found, acutely and enduringly, in the music of and visual culture surrounding the Grateful Dead. This exhibition also features artifacts reflective of the band’s visual vernacular, born from the psychedelic vocabulary of the ‘60s and ‘70s and transformed, over time, into a distinctive brand and cultural touchstone. The band was formed at a moment of optimism amid radical upheaval in the Bay Area, and their visual language has transmitted the spirit of the period to new and nostalgic audiences across the decades that followed.

Younger Lagoon Reserve Tours
2025-05-24 10:30 | Seymour Marine Discovery Center, 100 McAllister Way, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060
Take a tour of Younger Lagoon Reserve! This 90-minute, behind-the-scenes hiking tour takes visitors into the 25-acre lagoon and beach area. Come and see what scientists are doing to track local mammals, restore native habitats, and learn about the workings of one of California’s rare coastal lagoons.
Younger Lagoon Reserve Beach Tours are free and open to the public. Space is limited to 18 participants. Call 831-459-3800 or book online
Younger Lagoon Reserve also offers a virtual tour in both English and Spanish.

Self-Guided Labyrinth Walk
2025-04-24 12:00 | Jack Baskin Engineering, Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064
Join your UCSC colleagues in walking the new campus labyrinth located under the Redwood trees in the Baskin Engineering Circle. A labyrinth is different than a maze in that there are no dead-ends or tricks, which allows visitors to move through the path and focus on the present. We invite both those who have experienced labyrinths and first-timers. There is no right or wrong way to travel the path.
Why? Labyrinths are a tool for meditation and introspection. Many receive answers to personal questions, big and small. This first sponsored walk will offer participants the intention of a peaceful world, one without hate, bias and discrimination. This walk can offer folks a start to the new year and/or rest and renewal from 2024.
When? Join us on every 4th Thursday of each month at 12:00 PM for a self-guided labyrinth walk in community.

To learn more about the labyrinth walk events, please visit the Labyrinth Wellness Initiate page here. To learn more about the labyrinth, please visit the UCSC Labyrinth webpage.

Co-sponsored by the Office of the Ombuds, Faculty and Staff and Well-Being Program, and the Well-being Collective.

Western Regional Hub: Workforce Development Working Group Meeting
2025-04-10 11:00 | CA
The hub's impact working group focused on topics of career readiness and workforce development will hold their regular meeting.
The members will discuss student professional development, industry engagement opportunities, workforce training, and anything else under the umbrella of setting students up for success in the workplace.
The Workforce Development group meets every second Thursday at 11am. Contact Erin Busch at esbusch@ucsc.edu if you are interested in attending.

Western Regional Hub: Climate & Culture Working Group Meeting
2025-04-04 10:00 | CA
The hub's impact working group focused on the topics of climate and culture in engineering education will hold their regular meeting to discuss and strategize.
The Climate and Culture group meets every other Friday from 10-11am. If you would like to join, please contact co-chair Nandini Bhattacharya at nandini@ucsc.edu.

Visiting Summer-Only Student Registration Open
2025-04-01 08:00 | CA
Anyone can take classes at UC Santa Cruz during Summer Session! Visiting students—including those from other colleges, universities, or the community—must register before enrolling.
Registration is now open through July. Once registered, you can enroll in online or in-person courses, earning UC credits that transfer to your home institution. Explore hundreds of summer courses and start planning today! Got questions? We're here to help—email us at summer@ucsc.edu.

Arboretum Members - Join us for Early Bird Saturday
2025-02-15 07:00 | Arboretum, 122 Arboretum Road, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064
We offer special sunrise hours for our members and volunteers on the third Saturday of each month, as weather permits. Opening time is 7 a.m. Please bring your membership card for check-in at the front gate.
Early mornings are a wonderful time in our gardens, ideal for photography, birding, and quiet enjoyment of nature. If you would like to join us, become a member today!

First Saturday: Free Tour
2025-02-01 11:00 | Arboretum, 122 Arboretum Road, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064
Around the World in 60-90 Minutes!
On the first Saturday of each month, the Arboretum offers a docent or staff-led tour of the Arboretum.
Sometimes you will see New Zealand, South Africa, California, and Australia. Sometimes you might see combinations of several gardens or the developing World Conifer Collection or Rare Fruit Garden. Tour length varies depending on what's in bloom and what the participants request.
Meet your tour guide(s) at 11:00 am at the entrance to the visitor parking lot. (Tours are canceled when the weather isn't suitable.)
The tour cost is included with paid admission to the Arboretum. Check the hours and admission page for more information. Arboretum members are admitted to the Arboretum free.

Weekly Farmstand
2024-09-26 12:30 - 18:00 | Hay Barn, 94 Ranch View Road, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
The Center for Agroecology’s Farmstand is open to all and features organic vegetables, fruit, herbs and flowers grown at the UCSC Farm and Alan Chadwick Garden.
Find the Farmstand at the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn near the base of campus every Thursday from 12:30 to 6:30pm, beginning July 3rd and continuing through September 25th, 2025. By shopping at our farmstand, you support agricultural education and research at UC Santa Cruz!
Get discounted produce from our Farmstand by signing up for a Market Share. Students get 25% off produce. We accept EBT.
