Lectures & Presentations

Name: Environmental Studies Seminar Series | North Stars of Emancipation: Navigating Movements and Institutions to Change Food Systems
Start: 2026-10-19T13:25:00-07:00
End: 2026-10-19T14:30:00-07:00
Location: Interdisciplinary Sciences Building

September 2026
Tornoe, S. (ECE) – Improving the UV optical response and suppressing surface plasmon resonance in aluminum and silver base telescope mirrors

September 15 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am

2300 Delaware Avenue 2300 Delaware Ave, Santa Cruz, CA

Hybrid Event

Aluminum and silver are excellent metal-bases for astronomical telescopes designed for broadband spectral measurements. In particular silver excels in the violet to infrared spectral range range with over 95% reflectance. In turn aluminum excels deep ultra-violet to infrared with over 90% reflectance across the bulk of its spectral range. In astronomical telescope optics, each percent […]
How to Apply to the Premed Postbacc Program

September 17 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Silicon Valley Campus 3175 Bowers Avenue, Santa Clara, CA, United States

Join UC Santa Cruz Healthcare Pathways for a live online information session to learn about our Premed Postbacc Cohort, Premed and Pre-Health DIY Pathways, and other program offerings. We’ll provide an overview of our programs and cover how to apply for our next admissions cycle. We’ll also discuss the application process, admissions timeline, coursework, advising, MCAT preparation, […]
Headrick, C. (BMEB) – The Regulation of mRNA Cleavage in Nonsense-mediated mRNA Decay: From Inside (intra-pathway determinants) Out (extra-pathway regulation)

September 21 @ 11:30 am – 12:30 pm

Biomedical Sciences Building 575 McLaughlin Drive

Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) is a translation-coupled quality control pathway that degrades mRNAs that harbor a premature termination codon (PTC) and 5-30% of normal cellular mRNAs. The NMD field sits at a pivotal moment with recent developments that endonucleolytic cleavage is the primary mechanism of mRNA decay conserved across metazoans. Discovery of a conserved NMD […]
ECE Special Seminar: “Autonomous Electric Vehicles – Data Centers on the Wheel”

September 25 @ 10:30 am – 11:30 am

Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA

Presented by: Kaushik Rajashekara, Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished University Professor @ University of Houston Description: “Autonomous electric vehicles (AEVs) are at the forefront of modern transportation, merging automation […]
Mastoras, M. (BMEB) – Polishing genome assemblies and leveraging their improved quality to study centromere variation

September 25 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Physical Sciences Building Physical Sciences Building, Santa Cruz, CA

Hybrid Event

A complete and accurate genome reconstruction serves as the foundation for studying an organism’s biology and the mechanisms underlying disease. It is particularly critical for reference genomes, which provide a […]
Malekos, E. (BMEB) – CRISPR screens of noncanonical ORFs uncover retroviral-derived immune regulators

September 25 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Biomedical Sciences Biomedical Sciences Building Red Hill Road, Santa Cruz, CA

Ribosome profiling has revealed thousands of noncanonical translation events across mammalian genomes, yet functional characterization has overwhelmingly focused on proliferative fitness in cancer cell lines. Here, we present a comprehensive […]
Earth Friendly Gardening: Protecting Wildlife & the Environment

September 27 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Join UC Master Gardeners at the UCSC Arboretum for class no. 4 of 4 that teaches you how to help protect the environment and support local wildlife.
Santa Cruz Pickwick Club presents: Christie Mysteries

September 27, 2026 @ 1:00 pm – June 27, 2027 @ 3:00 pm Santa Cruz Pickwick Club

Village murders! Occult conspiracies! A modern mystery tinged with the uncanny! Join the Pickwick Club as we explore Dickens and Christie across four landmark detective novels.

Free
ECE 290 Seminar: “Where The Semiconductor Industry Is Headed Over The Next 5, 10, 20 Years?”

September 28 @ 10:40 am – 11:45 am

Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA

Presented by: Dr. Victor Zhirnov, Product Ideation Head @ Applied Materials Description: “Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are a primary engine of socioeconomic growth in the modern world. Electronic information processing […]
Environmental Studies Seminar Series | Lightning Talks by ENVS Faculty

September 28 @ 1:25 pm – 2:30 pm

Interdisciplinary Sciences Building 7487 Red Hill Road, Santa Cruz, CA

In person and via Zoom (Meeting ID: 978 5545 8946, Passcode: 454736). If you are unable to stream the talk live and need to access a recorded version, please contact […]
Statistics Seminar: Vecchia Approximated Bayesian Heteroskedastic Gaussian Processes

September 28 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Jack Baskin Engineering Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA

Presenter: Parul Patil, Postdoctoral Researcher, UC Santa Cruz Description: Many computer simulations are stochastic and exhibit input dependent noise. In such situations, heteroskedastic Gaussian processes (hetGPs) make ideal surrogates as […]
October 2026
First Saturday Tour at the Arboretum

October 3 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm First Saturday Tour at the Arboretum

Arboretum 122 Arboretum Road, Santa Cruz, CA

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 […]
Environmental Studies Seminar Series | Exit Talk: Geospatial Optimization of California’s Organic Waste Diversion System: Transportation, Compliance, and Infrastructure Planning

October 5 @ 1:25 pm – 2:30 pm

Interdisciplinary Sciences Building 7487 Red Hill Road, Santa Cruz, CA

In person and via Zoom (Meeting ID: 978 5545 8946, Passcode: 454736). If you are unable to stream the talk live and need to access a recorded version, please contact Stacy Philpott at sphilpot@ucsc.edu. A UC Santa Cruz email address is required to access the recording. Host: Elliott Campbell Speaker: Siyu Luo, UC Santa Cruz, […]
Under the Mantle of an Idocile Dream: Film Screening and Conversation with Denise Carrascosa and Gina Dent

October 7 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Visualizing Abolition

Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz, United States

The Institute of the Arts and Sciences invites you to a screening of the video-performance Under the Mantle of an Idocile Dream (Bruna Castro, Brasil, 2026), followed by a conversation between Denise […]
Environmental Studies Seminar Series | Caring for cultural keystones: Indigenous-led stewardship, public values, and tree genomics in a hotter, drier world

October 12 @ 1:25 pm – 2:30 pm

Interdisciplinary Sciences Building 7487 Red Hill Road, Santa Cruz, CA

In person and via Zoom (Meeting ID: 978 5545 8946, Passcode: 454736). If you are unable to stream the talk live and need to access a recorded version, please contact […]
Fellowships for Research in Japan – In-person Info Session

October 13 @ 10:30 am – 11:30 am

Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) is the largest funding agency for academic research in Japan. Fellowships are offered for Ph.D. students, post-doctorate scholars, researchers, and faculty members […]
Kraw Lecture: Could a “Super El Niño” be coming?

October 13 @ 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm

The Quad Conference Center 2400 Sand Hill Rd, Menlo Park, CA, United States

UC Santa Cruz researchers are closely tracking the development of a potential “super El Niño” this year. In this Kraw Lecture, two UC Santa Cruz experts will explore the natural […]
Festival of Monsters: The Quatermass Experiment

October 14 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Festival of Monsters 2026

The 418 Project 155 River St S, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

The Festival of Monsters screens the 1955 classic sci-fi horror film The Quatermass Experiment at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2026, at The 418 in Downtown Santa Cruz. This screening includes a live introduction by monster maven Dr. H. Marshall Leicester (UC Santa Cruz Professor Emeritus of Literature). A trio of British astronauts are launched […]

$15
Festival of Monsters: A Devilish Discussion

October 17 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm Festival of Monsters 2026

Museum of Art & History 705 Front St, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

The Festival of Monsters presents “A Devilish Discussion,” 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 17, 2026, at the Museum of Art and History in Downtown Santa Cruz. Authors Kiersten White (The Fox […]

Free
Environmental Studies Seminar Series | North Stars of Emancipation: Navigating Movements and Institutions to Change Food Systems

October 19 @ 1:25 pm

Interdisciplinary Sciences Building 7487 Red Hill Road, Santa Cruz, CA

In person and via Zoom (Meeting ID: 978 5545 8946, Passcode: 454736). If you are unable to stream the talk live and need to access a recorded version, please contact Stacy Philpott at sphilpot@ucsc.edu. A UC Santa Cruz email address is required to access the recording. Host: Stacy Philpott Speaker: Antonio Roman-Alcala, CSU East Bay […]

September 2026

October 2026