Johns, M. (CMPM) – Playing Together in a Co-Designed Future: Building Resilience Through Community-Centered Gameful Design
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AM Seminar: Column Subset Selection: Theory, Structure, and Algorithms
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Week of Events
2026 Right Livelihood International Conference
The Right Livelihood International Conference is a five-week global conference exploring how education can strengthen democracy, collective intelligence, and just futures. Bringing together Right Livelihood Laureates, students, faculty, and community partners across continents, the conference combines asynchronous learning with participatory dialogue and collaborative action. Rather than advocating specific outcomes, the conference positions education as a democratic […]
Monday, May 11, 2026
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Hybrid EventMay 11, 2026Johns, M. (CMPM) – Playing Together in a Co-Designed Future: Building Resilience Through Community-Centered Gameful Design
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May 11, 2026AM Seminar: Column Subset Selection: Theory, Structure, and Algorithms
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May 11, 2026Reyna Grande – Migrant Heart
Johns, M. (CMPM) – Playing Together in a Co-Designed Future: Building Resilience Through Community-Centered Gameful Design
Complex societal problems (e.g. wicked problems) such as those brought on by climate change can be addressed through a combination of Research through Design (RtD), co-design, and Serious Games (SG) by inviting affected communities to take part in developing iterative, experimental solutions and exploring their potential impact. In the course of my research, I have […]
AM Seminar: Column Subset Selection: Theory, Structure, and Algorithms
Presenter: Anil Damle, Associate Professor, Cornell University Description: The column subset selection problem is a classical topic in numerical linear algebra, with renewed interest driven by applications in computational quantum chemistry, integral equations, model reduction, and model compression in machine learning. This talk surveys recent advances that clarify how structural properties of a matrix influence […]
Reyna Grande – Migrant Heart
Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes award-winning author Reyna Grande (The Distance Between Us) back to the store to celebrate the release of her newest book Migrant Heart: Essays About Things I Can’t Forget—an ambitious memoir in essays that illuminates the hidden cost of the American Dream and the complex journey of healing that follows survival. Grande will […]
Tuesday, May 12, 2026
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May 12, 2026Yoga as Healing Series
Yoga as Healing Series
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 […]
Wednesday, May 13, 2026
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May 13, 2026Carceral Media Ecologies—and How to Break Them
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May 13, 2026CSE Colloquium – The EU’s Cybersecurity Framework: what it is, what it means
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May 13, 2026Engineering Teaching Community (Faculty)
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Virtual EventMay 13, 2026Research Lunch & Learn: Cost Sharing
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May 13, 2026Santa Cruz Launchpad Student Startup Competition & Job Fair
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May 13, 2026Visualizing Abolition Screening Series: Beyond Access
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May 13, 2026Spring Exhibitions at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences
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May 13, 2026Career Success Drop-Ins at the Cantú – Week 7
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May 13, 2026Community Connections Annual Spring Scholarship Presentation
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May 13, 2026Building Belonging Program Student Showcase 2026
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May 13, 2026Chat with the Chair: Conversations on AI
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May 13, 2026What is Mythos? Conversations on AI
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May 13, 2026Drop-in Figure Drawing
Carceral Media Ecologies—and How to Break Them
Organized by Pooja Rangan, Visiting Scholar, Visualizing Abolition, UCSCm Carceral Media Ecologies—and How to Break Them is the culminating in-person event in a series of conversations examining how contemporary documentary forms participate in both the making and unmaking of carceral power. This symposium brings together organizers, filmmakers, scholars and artists—both with and without experiences of mass incarceration—for […]
CSE Colloquium – The EU’s Cybersecurity Framework: what it is, what it means
Presenter: Chris Jay Hoofnagle, Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius, Lothar Determann, Pieter T.J. Wolters Abstract: The European Union has enacted a comprehensive cybersecurity framework (the “Framework”) that imposes far-reaching obligations on developers of standalone software and connected products. This Article describes the European legislative approach before turning to a description of the Framework. Anchored by the Cyber […]
Engineering Teaching Community (Faculty)
This quarter, make time for you, for reflection, and for community!
Research Lunch & Learn: Cost Sharing
Join us on May 13, 2026, 12-1 p.m. for a session led by Deirdre Beach (Executive Director, Sponsored Programs) and Lindsey Demeritt (Executive Director, Research Financial Services), as they discuss the nuance and implications of cost sharing. This session will review the differences between mandatory and voluntary cost share, the requirements for committing cost sharing […]
Santa Cruz Launchpad Student Startup Competition & Job Fair
The 10th annual Santa Cruz Launchpad event combines a student startup competition with a community career fair, all under one roof! This year’s event takes place at the The Grove […]
Visualizing Abolition Screening Series: Beyond Access
On view in the IAS Screening Room is a selection of short films curated by Visualizing Abolition Visiting Faculty Fellow Dr. Pooja Rangan. Prisons deny and censor the access of […]
Spring Exhibitions at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences
Visit the IAS, UCSC’s premier art galleries, for our spring exhibitions. On view April 10–August 16, 2026 are three diverse and interdisciplinary shows: Libia Posada: Everything is Going Right, the […]
Career Success Drop-Ins at the Cantú – Week 7
Drop-in at the Cantú with Career Coach & Engagement Specialist Bridge Kennedy to discuss career exploration, job search strategy, interview prep, grad school prep, or whatever’s on your mind related to your career success! If you need accommodations please email bridgekk@ucsc.edu YOU BELONG HERE Programs and services are open to all, consistent with state and […]
Community Connections Annual Spring Scholarship Presentation
Join Community Connections as we present scholarships to local first-year and re-entry students. This event is an opportunity to meet, congratulate, and celebrate with these outstanding students.
Building Belonging Program Student Showcase 2026
Join us for the Institute for Social Transformation’s annual student showcase, celebrating the incredible work of our Building Belonging Fellows! This special event highlights the achievements of undergraduate research fellows. Each student will give a 2-minute lightning talk about a research project they worked on with a Social Sciences faculty mentor. The event will be […]
Chat with the Chair: Conversations on AI
Curious about the newest developments in artificial intelligence? Join us for Chat with the AI Chair, a monthly drop-in conversation designed for professionals who want to stay ahead of emerging […]
What is Mythos? Conversations on AI
What do we know about Mythos? Anthropic’s Claude Mythos, a next-generation, general-purpose AI model with 10 trillion parameters, is the most powerful AI developed to date. It is highly capable of advanced reasoning, coding, and autonomously identifying and exploiting complex software vulnerabilities, creating significant cybersecurity risks. Join us for Chat with Praveen Krishna, chair of our AI program, […]
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 […]
Thursday, May 14, 2026
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May 14, 2026Survivor Circles: Healing After Trauma
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May 14, 2026Narcan Training for Faculty and Staff
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May 14, 2026Queer Connections: Q/T Grad Students
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Virtual EventMay 14, 2026Time Management
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May 14, 2026Visualizing Abolition Screening Series: Beyond Access
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May 14, 2026Spring Exhibitions at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences
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May 14, 2026Black on the Block
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May 14, 2026Narcan Training for Faculty and Staff
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May 14, 20262026 Robert L. Sinsheimer Distinguished Lecture in Biology: Global Vaccines and Immunizations in a Time of Climate Change, Mega Cities, and Anti-science
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May 14, 20262026 Robert L. Sinsheimer Distinguished Lecture in Biology: Global Vaccines and Immunizations in a Time of Climate Change, Mega Cities, and Anti-science
Survivor Circles: Healing After Trauma
CARE’s Healing After Trauma survivor circles are an in-person, drop-in space to share and connect on the glimmers & struggles of recovering from harmful sexual experiences. Guided and led by CARE advocates, each week’s session will offer an opportunity to engage with a different alternative healing modality – from sound healing, to art therapy, collective […]
Narcan Training for Faculty and Staff
Register for the Zoom link. Narcan is a life-saving opioid overdose reversal drug. Join us in this workshop as we learn the following: How to use Narcan When to use Narcan Narcan FAQs Where to find Narcan locally Register for the Zoom link. To learn more, please visit the Narcan wellness initiative webpage. For trainings, please […]
Queer Connections: Q/T Grad Students
CAPS & Cantú Collaboration: Queer Connections. Join us at the Lionel Cantú Queer Center for conversations facilitated by CAPS Providers. Q/T Grad Students: Graduate students are welcome to join us at the Cantú to craft while in community. We will provide a safe space on campus to connect, share and reflect together! Come be in community […]
Time Management
In this workshop, you will: Learn the ways you can manage your time and avoid procrastination/burnout. The Successful Slug Workshop series, hosted by Learning Support Services Peer Coaches, are open […]
Visualizing Abolition Screening Series: Beyond Access
On view in the IAS Screening Room is a selection of short films curated by Visualizing Abolition Visiting Faculty Fellow Dr. Pooja Rangan. Prisons deny and censor the access of […]
Spring Exhibitions at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences
Visit the IAS, UCSC’s premier art galleries, for our spring exhibitions. On view April 10–August 16, 2026 are three diverse and interdisciplinary shows: Libia Posada: Everything is Going Right, the […]
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 […]
Narcan Training for Faculty and Staff
Register for the Zoom link. Narcan is a life-saving opioid overdose reversal drug. Join us in this workshop as we learn the following: How to use Narcan When to use […]
2026 Robert L. Sinsheimer Distinguished Lecture in Biology: Global Vaccines and Immunizations in a Time of Climate Change, Mega Cities, and Anti-science
Join us for an evening with Dr. Peter Hotez, a world-renowned vaccine scientist, pediatrician, and Dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine. A graduate of Yale, Cornell, and Rockefeller University, Dr. Hotez has dedicated his career to global health, co-developing low-cost COVID-19 vaccines administered to over 100 million people […]
2026 Robert L. Sinsheimer Distinguished Lecture in Biology: Global Vaccines and Immunizations in a Time of Climate Change, Mega Cities, and Anti-science
Join us for an evening with Dr. Peter Hotez, a world-renowned vaccine scientist, pediatrician, and Dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine. A graduate of Yale, Cornell, and Rockefeller University, Dr. Hotez has dedicated his career to global health, co-developing low-cost COVID-19 vaccines administered to over 100 million people […]
Friday, May 15, 2026
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May 15, 2026Flow and Friction: Media Practices Across Global Asias
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May 15, 2026Risk Services & Occupational Health’s Campus Wellness Fair
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May 15, 2026Spring Exhibitions at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences
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May 15, 2026Run Like a Slug 5k
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Featured May 15, 2026Featured STEM Culture Festival
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Featured May 15, 2026Featured 2026 Graduate Research Symposium
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May 15, 2026UCSC Graduate Research Symposium
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May 15, 2026Demystifying Failure: The Necessity of Mistakes
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May 15, 2026Rasanblé/Rasanblaj: Call & Response
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May 15, 2026UCSC Concert Choir
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May 15, 2026Who Can I Run To?, by Alyssa Windom—2026 Dharma Grace Creative Writing Award and Theatrical Production
Flow and Friction: Media Practices Across Global Asias
Though flow and friction have their enmeshed problematic of combined colonial and imperial mechanisms, we also believe that they can be useful concepts to think through the transnational and deimperial techniques that Global Asias can offer. Global Asias offer an expansive model to consider the imaginary or symbolic Asia as a series of diasporic interpolations […]
Risk Services & Occupational Health’s Campus Wellness Fair
Friday, May 15, 12:00 PM -2:00 PM Where: Upper East Field The Risk Services & Occupational Health’s Campus Wellness Fair is a fun-filled event open to all students, staff, and […]
Spring Exhibitions at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences
Visit the IAS, UCSC’s premier art galleries, for our spring exhibitions. On view April 10–August 16, 2026 are three diverse and interdisciplinary shows: Libia Posada: Everything is Going Right, the […]
Run Like a Slug 5k
The UC Santa Cruz Department of Athletics and Recreation is proud to announce the second annual Run Like a Slug 5k. Banana Slugs can register here for the race. Get ready to embrace your inner Banana Slug at the Run Like A Slug 5k Fun Run! Join fellow students, staff, and faculty members for a scenic and spirited […]
STEM Culture Festival
Join us for a celebration of UCSC’s vibrant, innovative, and diverse STEM community featuring: Musical performances Dance lessons STEM-themed drag shows Inspirational talks Student organization tabling Student-led games & activities […]
2026 Graduate Research Symposium
UCSC 22nd Annual Graduate Research Symposium Friday, May 15, 1:00-4:00 PM (PDT) McHenry Library | Information Commons South on the Main Floor This event celebrates and highlights the work of UCSC graduate students in all academic divisions. Any enrolled graduate student is welcome to present either a poster, talk, or mixed media presentation. The event is […]
UCSC Graduate Research Symposium
Friday, May 15, 1:00-4:00 PM (PDT) McHenry Library | Information Commons South on the Main Floor We are delighted to invite you to the 22nd Annual Graduate Research Symposium! This […]
Demystifying Failure: The Necessity of Mistakes
In this workshop, you will: In this workshop, you will: Move from “failing” to “flourishing” by learning to reframe setbacks and build resilience in academia. The Successful Slug Workshop series, […]
Rasanblé/Rasanblaj: Call & Response
Join us for an evening of call and response between Portsha Jefferson, dancer and artistic director of Rara Tou Limen, and artist-scholar Gina Athena Ulysse. Jefferson will offer a Haitian dance response to Ulysse’s art exhibition Redwoods Rasanblaj: Origins & Disentanglements and screen her short film IMAMOU: Hotô to Shore… Agbe | Agwe. Ulysse will read from […]
Who Can I Run To?, by Alyssa Windom—2026 Dharma Grace Creative Writing Award and Theatrical Production
Through their belief in Ifá and the divine, three generations of women grow their relationships with each other and navigate living within their African diasporic identities.
Saturday, May 16, 2026
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May 16, 2026Berry U-Pick at the UCSC Farm
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May 16, 2026Visualizing Abolition Screening Series: Beyond Access
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May 16, 2026Spring Exhibitions at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences
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May 16, 2026Opening Celebration for Visions from Within: Resilience
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May 16, 2026La Alegria del Mariachi with guest artist Lupita Infante
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May 16, 2026Who Can I Run To?, by Alyssa Windom—2026 Dharma Grace Creative Writing Award and Theatrical Production
Berry U-Pick at the UCSC Farm
Come enjoy picking your own organic strawberries and/or blueberries at the campus farm! Our delicious, organic berries will be plentiful this spring and we hope you can come enjoy the […]
Visualizing Abolition Screening Series: Beyond Access
On view in the IAS Screening Room is a selection of short films curated by Visualizing Abolition Visiting Faculty Fellow Dr. Pooja Rangan. Prisons deny and censor the access of those trapped inside them—to information, to intimacy, to community, to meaningful work, to nourishment of all kinds, and perhaps most cruelly, to care. This program […]
Spring Exhibitions at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences
Visit the IAS, UCSC’s premier art galleries, for our spring exhibitions. On view April 10–August 16, 2026 are three diverse and interdisciplinary shows: Libia Posada: Everything is Going Right, the first US solo exhibition by the Colombia-based artist and medical doctor; Gina Athena Ulysse: A Redwoods Rasanblaj, a site-specific and immersive exploration of the Haitian […]
Opening Celebration for Visions from Within: Resilience
Join us at Santa Cruz Barrios Unidos for the opening celebration of Visions from Within: Resilience. Visions From Within is a continued series of art exhibitions dedicated to uplifting and […]
Who Can I Run To?, by Alyssa Windom—2026 Dharma Grace Creative Writing Award and Theatrical Production
Through their belief in Ifá and the divine, three generations of women grow their relationships with each other and navigate living within their African diasporic identities.
Sunday, May 17, 2026
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May 17, 2026OLLI at UCSC Sunday Speaker Meeting
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May 17, 2026Visualizing Abolition Screening Series: Beyond Access
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May 17, 2026Spring Exhibitions at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences
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May 17, 2026Who Can I Run To?, by Alyssa Windom—2026 Dharma Grace Creative Writing Award and Theatrical Production
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May 17, 2026DMA Recital—Maisha Lani
OLLI at UCSC Sunday Speaker Meeting
Join OLLI for a social hour and a presentation with Michael Hutchinson, Distinguished Professor Emeritus,
Department of Economics at UC Santa Cruz.
Visualizing Abolition Screening Series: Beyond Access
On view in the IAS Screening Room is a selection of short films curated by Visualizing Abolition Visiting Faculty Fellow Dr. Pooja Rangan. Prisons deny and censor the access of those trapped inside them—to information, to intimacy, to community, to meaningful work, to nourishment of all kinds, and perhaps most cruelly, to care. This program […]
Spring Exhibitions at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences
Visit the IAS, UCSC’s premier art galleries, for our spring exhibitions. On view April 10–August 16, 2026 are three diverse and interdisciplinary shows: Libia Posada: Everything is Going Right, the first US solo exhibition by the Colombia-based artist and medical doctor; Gina Athena Ulysse: A Redwoods Rasanblaj, a site-specific and immersive exploration of the Haitian […]
Who Can I Run To?, by Alyssa Windom—2026 Dharma Grace Creative Writing Award and Theatrical Production
Through their belief in Ifá and the divine, three generations of women grow their relationships with each other and navigate living within their African diasporic identities.
DMA Recital—Maisha Lani
Graduate student Maisha Lani debuts new compositions composed over the course of two years in the D.M.A. Music Composition program at UC Santa Cruz. The pieces range in instrumentation and style: from a blues to a post-tonal work, consisting of vibraphone and stringed instruments, to afrobeat inspired compositions, to graphic scores and improvisation. Audiences are […]