March is Hummingbird Month at the UCSC Arboretum & Botanic Garden
Arboretum 122 Arboretum Road, Santa Cruz
$10.00
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March is Hummingbird Month at the UCSC Arboretum & Botanic Garden
Celebrate the wild acrobats of hummingbirds during their courtship & territorial displays in the gardens! Visit our website for special event updates throughout March! arboretum.ucsc.edu/visit/events
$10.00
M.F.A. Exhibition for Environmental Art & Social Practice (EASP)—”Picking up Shells Amid a Tsunami”
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. — FULL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS […]
FREE and open to the public
Oceans of Dissent: Towards a Feminist Commons Workshop
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 This […]
Free
Monday, March 30, 2026
No events on this day.
Tuesday, March 31, 2026
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March 31, 2026Free Coffee, Snacks, & Conversation
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March 31, 2026A Sacred Witnessing: A Trans Day of Euphoria Event
Free Coffee, Snacks, & Conversation
Enjoy a cup of coffee, cocoa, or tea, and a breakfast snack with Merrill Provost McGuinness. Stay and chat with him and Poppy the Merrill Chihuahua, or take it go. See you outside of the Merrill College office, across from the Merrill Mailroom.
Free
A Sacred Witnessing: A Trans Day of Euphoria Event
Join the Cantu Queer Center and the Diversity Center for an intergenerational Trans Day of Visibility gathering rooted in euphoria, joy, and sacred witnessing. Trans, nonbinary, Two-Spirit, and gender-expansive people of all ages are invited to share their stories, create art, and witness each other’s full humanity in a moment of dangerous hypervisibility and harm […]
Wednesday, April 1, 2026
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April 1, 2026FINS: Fisheries Insights Narratives and Stories seminar series featuring Dr. Randi Solhjell
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April 1, 2026CSE Colloquium – Messages from across the event horizon: AI Agentic Design for Computer Architecture (and more generalizable learnings)
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April 1, 2026Engineering Teaching Community (Faculty)
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April 1, 2026VMCC Talk with Maggie Cao—Sepia: Biotic Media and Ocean Worlds
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April 1, 2026Your AI Advantage: Tools, Skills, and Career Paths
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April 1, 2026Drop-in Figure Drawing
FINS: Fisheries Insights Narratives and Stories seminar series featuring Dr. Randi Solhjell
Please join us for the first talk in the FINS: Fisheries Insights Narratives and Stories seminar series featuring Fulbright Fellow Dr. Randi Solhjell. Her talk, “Managing a Fishy Business: Norway’s foreign aid and its impact on global fisheries governance” will discuss how Norwegian actors shape global fisheries policy through diplomacy, regulatory innovation and engagement in international institutions such as the UN FAO. She will also discuss how she studies fisheries from a social/political science lens. Preceding the talk please join us for a networking coffee hour (snacks provided) and a student-only lunch after the talk.
CSE Colloquium – Messages from across the event horizon: AI Agentic Design for Computer Architecture (and more generalizable learnings)
Presenter: Christopher Fletcher, UC Berkeley Abstract: It is difficult to escape the hype of agentic coding. Is the hype real? Are we still living in ~Summer 2025 — when AI coding would accomplish little more than upset its human supervisor? Or has a level shift in technology finally arrived? In this talk I will argue the latter. I will […]
Free
Engineering Teaching Community (Faculty)
This quarter, make time for you, for reflection, and for community!
VMCC Talk with Maggie Cao—Sepia: Biotic Media and Ocean Worlds
Maggie Cao lecture
FREE and open to the public
Your AI Advantage: Tools, Skills, and Career Paths
Transform your workplace with practical AI skills. Explore how to lead with AI—whether you want to build it or apply it. In this information session, discover two dynamic pathways: AI Business Practices, for professionals seeking practical AI tools to boost productivity without coding, and AI Engineer, for those ready to design and deploy production-ready AI […]
Drop-in Figure Drawing
Drop-In Draw provides a live model and room monitor. There is no formal lesson and only dry media is allowed (no paints). — ADVISORIES – These events contain mature content and nudity. – Drop-In Draw is subject to the possibility of last-minute cancellation without notification, and sessions are not guaranteed. — ADMISSION – FREE and […]
FREE and open to the public.
Thursday, April 2, 2026
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April 2, 2026Barnstorm Presents–“Gloria,” by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
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April 2, 2026Learn to use the UCSC Genome Browser
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April 2, 2026Younger Lagoon Reserve Tours
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Virtual EventApril 2, 2026Digital Accessibility: Presentations and Visual Aids
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April 2, 2026Black on the Block
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April 2, 2026Opening Celebration for EASP M.F.A. Exhibition—”Picking up Shells Amid a Tsunami”
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April 2, 2026Beyond public and private: Collaborative governance in global education reform with Antoni Verger and René Espinoza Kissell
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April 2, 2026The toughest challenges in advanced IC development
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April 2, 2026Colm Toibin – The News From Dublin
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April 2, 2026Movie Night Under the Stars: Screening “Castle in the Sky”
Learn to use the UCSC Genome Browser
The UCSC Genome Browser is hosting a free workshop for new and advanced users! Beginner session starts at 9 and will include: How to understand genome annotations How to find annotation data Overview of training resources Intermediate + advanced session starts at 10, covering Custom tracks Track hubs BLAT And more!! Join us and be […]
Younger Lagoon Reserve Tours
Younger Lagoon Reserve tours are free and open to the public. Space is limited to 18 participants. Call 831-459-3800 or sign-up online. Virtual tours are available online. seymourcenter.ucsc.edu.
Free
Virtual Event
Digital Accessibility: Presentations and Visual Aids
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.
Black on the Block
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. Stop by to learn about campus resources, upcoming programs, and ways to get involved. It’s a casual, welcoming space to ask questions, make […]
Opening Celebration for EASP M.F.A. Exhibition—”Picking up Shells Amid a Tsunami”
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. — FULL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS […]
Beyond public and private: Collaborative governance in global education reform with Antoni Verger and René Espinoza Kissell
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. Neoliberal educational policies aimed at efficiency through competition have often resulted in greater inequality […]
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The toughest challenges in advanced IC development
Explore the expanding career opportunities in semiconductors The modern economy is powered by silicon and the demand for skilled professionals in semiconductor design and engineering continues to grow. In 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 […]
Colm Toibin – The News From Dublin
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. Celebrated as “his generation’s most […]
Movie Night Under the Stars: Screening “Castle in the Sky”
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”: Date: Thursday, April 2nd Screening Time: 8:00 p.m. Location: Oakes Lower Lawn *Bring your own blanket* There will be free ramen, candy, drinks and activities! For […]
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Friday, April 3, 2026
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April 3, 2026UC Santa Cruz Alumni at the Sacramento Kings
UC Santa Cruz Alumni at the Sacramento Kings
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! Click here to purchase tickets in our section.
Saturday, April 4, 2026
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April 4, 2026First Saturday Tour at the Arboretum
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April 4, 2026Suzanne Simard – When the Forest Breathes
First Saturday Tour at the Arboretum
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 […]
Suzanne Simard – When the Forest Breathes
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. “A masterclass on […]
Sunday, April 5, 2026
No events on this day.