• Understanding & Using Your Syllabus

    Successful Slug Workshops
    Virtual Event

    In this workshop, you will: break down, understand, and use your syllabus as a tool for success. The Successful Slug Workshop series, hosted by Learning Support Services Peer Coaches, are open to all UCSC undergraduate students and focus on academic skills and tools to support your success as a student. At each workshop, you will […]

  • Rules Are Not Neutral: Play As Sense-Making, Acts Of Resistance, And Imagining Otherwise

    Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery 11 Cowell Service Rd, Santa Cruz, CA

    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 […]

    Free
  • Weekend with Shakespeare

    Dig deeply into this season’s Shakespeare productions with a special weekend of lectures, discussions and hands-on activities. In partnership with UCSC’s Shakespeare Workshop and The Humanities Institute, this is a wonderful opportunity to learn more about each play during the day and then enjoy the production that same evening. This year, Weekend with Shakespeare will […]

  • UCSC Farm U-Pick

    UCSC Farm U-Pick
    UCSC Farm 152 Farm Rd, Santa Cruz, CA

    Come enjoy picking your own organic strawberries and/or flowers at the campus farm! When: 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. Where: Free parking will be available in the Hay Barn lot or lot […]

  • Weekend With Shakespeare

    Dig deeply into this season’s Shakespeare productions with a special weekend of lectures, discussions and hands-on activities. In partnership with UCSC’s Shakespeare Workshop and The Humanities Institute, this is a wonderful opportunity to learn more about each play during the day and then enjoy the production that same evening. This year, Weekend with Shakespeare will […]

  • Zhao, Z. (CSE) – TOWARD VERIFIABLE REASONING IN LLMS

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

    Chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting can improve final-answer performance, but it does not guarantee that intermediate reasoning steps are faithful, valid, or checkable. This proposal studies how formal methods can make natural-language reasoning more reliable by translating CoT rationales into Lean artifacts, checking the resulting theorem statements and proofs, and using compiler feedback to diagnose and repair […]

  • August Slugs and Steins with Professor Barbara Rogoff

    Virtual Event

    Learning to be Community-Minded How do children learn to be part of a community, attentive to what’s going on around them and pitching in to help out? Barbara Rogoff builds on her 50+ years researching and participating with a Mayan community in Guatemala to make the case that people everywhere can learn from Indigenous cultural […]

  • Volunteer at the UCSC Arboretum

    Arboretum 122 Arboretum Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    Volunteer Information Sessions at the Arboretum Do you love gardens and gardening? The UCSC Arboretum & Botanic Garden has a wonderful community of staff, students, and volunteers, ready to welcome you. Opportunities include staffing our gift shop & retail nursery and working to care for our gardens and greenhouses.  To learn more, join us at […]

  • Time Management

    Successful Slug Workshops
    Virtual Event

    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 to all UCSC undergraduate students and focus on academic skills and tools to support your success as a student. At each workshop, you will be introduced […]

  • Research Lunch & Learn: Researcher roadmap: resources for faculty preparing grant proposals

    Virtual Event

    Tune into this session with the Research Development team as we discuss resources and guides we gathered for the Office of Research’s inaugural Research Leaders Academy in Winter 2026. We will address topics such as securing buy-in from leadership, team-building, partnerships, graphic design support, and developing an elevator pitch. This session provides a great resource […]