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Creative Interventions (CI) Series

Creative Interventions (CI) Series

Creative Interventions (CI) is a community colloquium in contemporary creativity and creative practices that addresses the interconnected work of artists, designers, activists, and knowledge workers—and the intrinsic and transformative capacity of […]

FREE and open to UCSC affiliates

CSE Colloquium: A Journey from Programming Systems Research to AI Agents

Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz

Speaker: Koushik Sen, UC Berkeley and Google DeepMind Abstract: Coding has emerged as an important application area for large language models (LLMs), with a proliferation of code-specific models and their applications across various domains and tasks such as program repair, performance optimization, debugging, test generation, documentation, and security hardening. In this talk, I will describe […]

Free

2025 Graduate & Professional School Fair (DAY 1)

Stevenson Event Center Stevenson Service Road, Santa Cruz

You’re invited to join us, open to all majors! Undergraduate and graduate students and recent alumni interested in pursuing continuing education opportunities are invited to attend. Get the chance to meet admission representatives seeking to share insight into their respective graduate and professional school programs and discuss ways in which to stand out in the […]

Road Trip! Light in the American West, from Baja to the Yukon

Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery 11 Cowell Service Rd, Santa Cruz

The photographs in this exhibition, made between 2004 and 2025, span across the American West from the Baja California Peninsula in Mexico to The Yukon territory in Canada. Paul Schoellhamer’s (Cowell ‘69) color photographs invite us to travel with him and reflect on our relationship to land, the light that shapes it, and the freedom […]

Free

Genomics Rooftop Mixer

Anton Pacific Apartments rooftop 800 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz

Breakthroughs that transform entire industries often begin quietly in academic labs, years before they make headlines. On October 28, the Genomics Rooftop Mixer will bring together leaders in genomics and biotechnology who are shaping the future of health, science, and technology. Hosted by Santa Cruz Works in collaboration with the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute, this event offers a rare chance to witness the cutting-edge of discovery in one of the fastest-moving fields in the world.

Free – $25

College Night: Over the Merrill Hill

College Nights
Cowell/Stevenson Dining Hall 520 Cowell-Stevenson Road, Santa Cruz

Merrill College, in collaboration with UCSC Dining, present Over the Merrill Hill! Join us Tuesday, October 28, from 5–8 p.m. at the Crown/Merrill Dining Hall for a night of activities, fun, community, and a special themed menu. Standard dining hall entry pricing applies, and all students, faculty, and staff are invited. Please note: The dining hall […]

Mark Primack: The Truth in Drawing

Media Theater Experimental Theater, Santa Cruz

Lecture by Mark Primack where he will present “Truth in Drawing”

FREE and open to the public

Yoga as Healing Series

Yoga as Healing Series
Health Center (Student Health Center) 525 McLaughlin Drive, Santa Cruz

Yoga as Healing is a 7-week program at UC Santa Cruz for students who identify as survivors of interpersonal violence. Participants are welcome to join any of the sessions, and attendance at the orientation is not required.

Drop-In Figure Drawing

Drop-In Figure Drawing
Elena Baskin Visual Arts Center Baskin Service Road, Santa Cruz

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.

Emeriti Faculty Lecture, Fall 2025

Music Center Recital Hall 400 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz
Hybrid Event

Distinguished Research Professor Diane Gifford-Gonzalez reflects on fifty-five years of zooarchaeology work, studying animal remains from archaeological sites to explore how past people and their kin interacted.