Audience: Undergraduate Students

  • [HSI Equity Talk] Beyond Invisibility: Reimagining Servingness to Support Undocumented Transfer Students

    [HSI Equity Talk] Beyond Invisibility: Reimagining Servingness to Support Undocumented Transfer Students

    Presenters: Valeria Alonso Blanco, Dr. Saskias Casanova, and Jesus Morales This interactive talk draws on a qualitative study conducted with undocumented Latinx transfer students at a California four-year HSI. Using focus groups and reflexive thematic analysis, we examined how these students perceive and experience institutional support, belonging, and barriers related to their intersectional identities. This…

  • CSE Colloquium: Agile and evolvable software construction in the era of rapidly evolving hardware accelerator designs

    CSE Colloquium: Agile and evolvable software construction in the era of rapidly evolving hardware accelerator designs

    Presenter Charith Mendis, Siebel School of Computing and Data Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Abstract Modern AI workloads have become exceedingly abundant and important in the current computing landscape. As a result, there have been numerous software and hardware innovations aimed at accelerating these workloads. However, we observe a subtle disconnect between the software…

  • Formula Slug Open House

    Formula Slug Open House

    We’re excited to announce our Formula Slug Open House at Baskin Engineering on Saturday, February 28th. Last season we placed 18th out of 120 teams representing UC Santa Cruz at the national FSAE competition, the result of a year spent designing, manufacturing, and testing our electric race car. The open house is an opportunity to see the work and decisions…

  • Pachanga 2026: Noche de Baile

    Pachanga 2026: Noche de Baile

    Join El Centro, the African American Resource and Cultural Center (AARCC), and Merrill College for our annual Noche de Baile as part of Pachanga 2026! For years, El Centro and the AARCC have collaborated on Pachanga, an annual event series during Black History Month focused on uplifting and celebrating AfroLatinidad. Each year, the series culminates…

  • Wang, H. (CSE) – Accelerating RTL Simulation with Specialized Graph Partitioners

    Wang, H. (CSE) – Accelerating RTL Simulation with Specialized Graph Partitioners

    Register transfer level (RTL) simulation is an invaluable tool for developing, debugging, verifying, and validating hardware designs. However, the performance of RTL simulation has long been a limiting factor in industry. Despite the inherent parallelism of hardware, current RTL simulators have not achieved practical performance gains due to fundamental challenges in communication, synchronization, memory bandwidth,…

  • Right Livelihood Community Organizing Workshop

    Right Livelihood Community Organizing Workshop

    On SuperBowl weekend, students part of the Right Livelihood Student Club, YDSA, and other communities organized a successful local rally against ICE operations, showing solidarity with Americans and the global consciousness against current agendas of militarism, capitalism, and imperialism. The Right Livelihood Community Organizing Workshop focuses on issues that students want to strategize. A nice…

  • “Career Success Resources” for UTC Transfer/Continuing Students

    Come and find out ALL that Career Success has to offer to UCSC students – every resources is FREE for you! Resume/Cover Letter feedback, Career Coaching Appointments, Graduate School Preparation, Interviewing Skills, Networking Opportunities, Career Fairs, Professional Development Workshops and MORE!

  • Monterey Bay Aquarium Trip

    Monterey Bay Aquarium Trip

    Join International Student Services and Programming (ISSP) for our annual trip to the Monterey Bay Aquarium. This will be a great time to get to know each other more while exploring an exciting and beautiful location. The trip will be limited to 30 participants. Non-international students can also sign up, but priority will be given…

  • OLLI at UCSC Sunday Speaker Meeting

    OLLI at UCSC Sunday Speaker Meeting

    Join OLLI for a social hour and presentation with Professor Benjamin Storm, “Remembering and Forgetting in the Digital Age,” as we discuss how new technologies have the potential to greatly enhance and expand the functioning of human memory, but they can also carry unintended consequences.

  • Shields, S. (CM) – Procedural, Player-Centric Game Balancing

    Shields, S. (CM) – Procedural, Player-Centric Game Balancing

    Game balance is a term widely used among players, researchers, and designers of games. It is a concept that feels vitally important to how we make and play games – but when we try to define it or implement it, we seldom get the same definition twice. Balance appears differently to whoever is judging it,…

Last modified: Feb 24, 2026