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SUMMARY:Nina Simon - My Sister Is Going To Kill Me
DESCRIPTION:What’s a family vacation without a little murder?\n\n\nBookshop Santa Cruz welcomes New York Times bestselling author Nina Simon (Mother-Daughter Murder Night) back to the store for a reading and signing of My Sister Is Going to Kill Me\, another fun\, family-centered whodunnit about two sisters who work together to find a killer as they raft down the rapids of the Grand Canyon. \n \nNina Simon writes crime fiction about strong women. She is the author of the New York Times-bestseller Mother-Daughter Murder Night\, which was a Reese’s Book Club pick\, a Golden Poppy Award winner\, and a “best of 2023” selection for Amazon\, Barnes & Noble\, CrimeReads\, and Library Journal. Before turning to fiction\, Nina wore many hats: NASA engineer\, slam poet\, game designer\, museum director\, and nonprofit CEO. Her work on community participation in museums\, libraries\, parks\, and theaters has been featured in the Wall Street Journal\, the New York Times\, NPR\, and the TEDx stage. Born and raised in Los Angeles\, Nina now lives off-the-grid in the Santa Cruz Mountains with her family. More information can be found on her website\, ninaksimon.com. \nMore information at: Bookshop Santa Cruz – Nina Simon \n\nCo-sponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
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SUMMARY:HireUC Alumni Career Summit - Irvine
DESCRIPTION:Ready to explore new career opportunities? Join fellow UC alumni from across all 10 UC campuses at the HireUC Alumni Career Summit – Irvine\, where you’ll have the opportunity to connect directly with 75+ employers actively recruiting UC talent. \nThis complimentary\, expo-style event brings together accomplished job seekers and employers representing a wide range of industries and career fields. Meet face-to-face with hiring representatives\, learn about current opportunities\, expand your professional network\, and discover what’s next in your career journey. \nTuesday\, August 18\, 2026\nUCI Student Center \nWhether you’re actively searching for your next role or exploring future possibilities\, we invite you to join us for a day of meaningful connections and career discovery. \nComplimentary for alumni attendees. Advance registration is required. \nLEARN MORE & REGISTER  \n 
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/hireuc-alumni-career-summit-irvine/
LOCATION:UCI Student Center\, Pacifica Ballroom\, 311 W. Peltason Drive\, Irvine\, 92697\, United States
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SUMMARY:Engineering Teaching Community (Faculty)
DESCRIPTION:During the chaos of a quarter\, is it hard to find time to reflect and improve as an instructor? Would you like to be a part of an inclusive\, supportive group of engineering instructors who do this in community? ETC is for sharing teaching experiences\, classroom ideas\, research on learning\, and methods that support instructors and students. All are welcome\, and lunch is provided. Please reach out to Jenny Quynn with questions.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/engineering-teaching-community-faculty/2026-08-19/
LOCATION:Jack Baskin Engineering\, Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Meetings & Conferences,Training
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SUMMARY:HireUC Alumni Career Summit - San Francisco
DESCRIPTION:Ready to explore new career opportunities? Join fellow UC alumni from across all 10 UC campuses at the HireUC Alumni Career Summit – San Francisco\, where you’ll have the opportunity to connect directly with 75+ employers actively recruiting UC talent. \nThis complimentary\, expo-style event brings together accomplished job seekers and employers representing a wide range of industries and career fields. Meet face-to-face with hiring representatives\, learn about current opportunities\, expand your professional network\, and discover what’s next in your career journey. \nThursday\, August 20\, 2026\nSouth San Francisco Conference Center \nWhether you’re actively searching for your next role or exploring future possibilities\, we invite you to join us for a day of meaningful connections and career discovery. \nComplimentary for alumni attendees. Advance registration is required. \nLEARN MORE & REGISTER
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/hireuc-alumni-career-summit-san-francisco/
LOCATION:South San Francisco Conference Center\, 255 S Airport Blvd\, South San Francisco\, 94080\, United States
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SUMMARY:Rules Are Not Neutral: Play As Sense-Making\, Acts Of Resistance\, And Imagining Otherwise
DESCRIPTION:This exhibition brings together a range of analog games – including board\, card\, role-playing\, and other participatory works – that engage social and political realities in different ways. The works span widely circulated commercial games to independently produced projects\, one-of-a-kind artworks by artists\, faculty\, alumni\, and students\, and materials drawn from UC Santa Cruz Special Collections and Archives. \nIn part\, the exhibition challenges the persistent assumption that games and play are detached from social and political life. On the contrary\, game designers and artists across diverse perspectives and positions have long used play to engage questions of social systems\, lived experience\, and how power operates. This exhibition does not attempt to represent that full spectrum. Instead\, it brings together a particular set of works that foreground how games can make systems visible\, intervene in them\, and imagine alternatives. \nAll games embody values\, whether intentional or not.  \n– Mary Flanagan\, game designer and scholar \nAcross all of these works\, games are not only forms of entertainment\, though they may be that as well. They are encountered in multiple ways: as objects\, as systems\, as artworks\, and as experiences that unfold unpredictably through interaction. In each case\, rules and constraints shape what participants can do. In these different forms\, the works stage systems – such as housing and land ownership\, capitalism\, race and identity\, civil rights and protest\, fascism\, and colonialism – in ways that are simplified and easy to see\, opening space to recognize similar structures beyond the game. In this sense\, the works suggest that rules are not neutral – they organize experience\, distribute power\, and produce meaning. \nGames are the art of agency. \n– C. Thi Nguyen\, philosopher \nThe exhibition is intentionally dense. This abundance reflects the breadth of ways games operate across contexts\, from activism and education to art and everyday life. While it celebrates creativity and difference\, it also asks how these works engage critically with the structures that shape our lives.  \nSome works use rules to model systems\, helping players understand how those systems operate. Others use play to rehearse action\, asking players to practice navigating or challenging those systems. Still others turn toward speculation\, inviting players to imagine alternative futures\, worlds\, and the systems that might shape them.  \nThe imagination is an instrument of change. \n– Ursula K. Le Guin\, author \nThe focus on analog games reflects how they foreground materiality and shared physical presence. Played face-to-face\, handled\, read aloud\, and experienced together\, these works show how rules operate not in abstraction\, but through lived\, embodied experience. \nUltimately\, the exhibition asks us to consider not only how games represent the world\, but how they shape our engagement with it – and how through play\, the social and political systems they model might be understood\, challenged\, and reimagined. \nGames are not apolitical. \n– Kishonna L. Gray\, media scholar \n  \nGallery Reception\nMay 15 from 1 to 4pm at the Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery \n  \nArt Friday\nHands-on art activities drawing from the current exhibition.\nALL ARE WELCOME regardless of skill level. Art supplies and free snacks are provided!
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/rules-are-not-neutral-play-as-sense-making-acts-of-resistance-and-imagining-otherwise-2/2026-08-20/
LOCATION:Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery\, 11 Cowell Service Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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SUMMARY:BIC 2026 | UC Systemwide Bioengineering Symposium
DESCRIPTION:The 26th Annual UC Systemwide Bioengineering Symposium (BIC 2026) is taking place at UC Santa Cruz on August 22-23\, 2026. The event will bring together faculty\, researchers\, students\, industry representatives\, non-profit organizations\, and other stakeholders to explore bioengineering & AI in the heart of the redwood forest. BIC 2026 will foster new collaborations and showcase the latest advancements in bioengineering research and innovation\, including at the intersection with AI. \nRegister here. \n\nDates & Time\n\n\n\nDay 1 (Saturday\, August 22): August 22 @ 8:00 am – 9:00 pm\nDay 2 (Sunday\, August 23): August 23 @ 8:30 am – 4:00 pm\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Fees & Cost\n\nUndergraduate Student: $215 (Early Bird) / $265 (Standard)\nGraduate Student or Postdoc: $270 (Early Bird) / $320 (Standard)\nFaculty or Staff: $320 (Early Bird) / $370 (Standard)\nIndustry or Guest: $420 (Early Bird) / $470 (Standard)\n\nNote: Late bird/Standard rates apply starting June 16\, 2026\, and a 4.00% processing fee is added at checkout.o
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/bic-2026-uc-systemwide-bioengineering-symposium/2026-08-22/
LOCATION:Kresge College\, R-3 Suites\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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SUMMARY:UCSC Farm U-Pick
DESCRIPTION:Come enjoy picking your own organic strawberries and/or flowers at the campus farm! \nWhen: U-picks will take place on Saturdays from 9am to 12pm\, July 11–August 22\, or while supplies last. PLEASE NOTE that u-pick will not occur on Saturday\, July 4. \nWhere: Free parking will be available in the Hay Barn lot or lot 115/116 during u-pick hours. Please do not park in the dirt lot at the farm’s back gate. Please walk to the check-in table near the strawberries/flowers at the farm to pre-pay and collect your u-pick container(s). We will have directional signage displayed. There is one ADA parking spot on the farm. The UCSC Farm has uneven\, hilly terrain. If you require accommodations  to fully participate\, please email agroecology@ucsc.edu and we will do our best to accommodate. \nCost: UCSC students with valid ID get 25% off produce. \n\nStrawberry pints – $4 each\nStrawberry flats (12 pints) – $44\nFlowers – $25 for 32oz deli container\nFlower buckets – $75\n\nPayment: Credit card payments only (you will need a smartphone to scan a QR code and enter your card info manually). \nDogs are not allowed on the UC Santa Cruz campus (service animals are OK).
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/ucsc-farm-u-pick/2026-08-22/
LOCATION:UCSC Farm\, 152 Farm Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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SUMMARY:BIC 2026 | UC Systemwide Bioengineering Symposium
DESCRIPTION:The 26th Annual UC Systemwide Bioengineering Symposium (BIC 2026) is taking place at UC Santa Cruz on August 22-23\, 2026. The event will bring together faculty\, researchers\, students\, industry representatives\, non-profit organizations\, and other stakeholders to explore bioengineering & AI in the heart of the redwood forest. BIC 2026 will foster new collaborations and showcase the latest advancements in bioengineering research and innovation\, including at the intersection with AI. \nRegister here. \n\nDates & Time\n\n\n\nDay 1 (Saturday\, August 22): August 22 @ 8:00 am – 9:00 pm\nDay 2 (Sunday\, August 23): August 23 @ 8:30 am – 4:00 pm\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Fees & Cost\n\nUndergraduate Student: $215 (Early Bird) / $265 (Standard)\nGraduate Student or Postdoc: $270 (Early Bird) / $320 (Standard)\nFaculty or Staff: $320 (Early Bird) / $370 (Standard)\nIndustry or Guest: $420 (Early Bird) / $470 (Standard)\n\nNote: Late bird/Standard rates apply starting June 16\, 2026\, and a 4.00% processing fee is added at checkout.o
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/bic-2026-uc-systemwide-bioengineering-symposium/2026-08-23/
LOCATION:Kresge College\, R-3 Suites\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Conference,Meetings & Conferences,Reception
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