UC Santa Cruz Events

03/26/2024

Inspire: Leading Ideas from UC Santa Cruz, Climate Resilience (5/30)

We’re bringing UC Santa Cruz to you.

Join us for a series of events to connect, discover, and imagine. We’ll explore new ideas with thought leaders, innovators, and visionaries across different fields. Whether you’re interested in technology, arts, science, or social impact, the INSPIRE series has something for all UCSC alumni, parents, and friends.

UCSC is pushing boundaries, breaking molds, and creating positive change. We’re bringing this change to you.

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We’re bringing UC Santa Cruz to you. Join us for a series of events to connect, discover, and imagine. We’ll explore new ideas with thought leaders, innovators, and visionaries across different fields. Whether you’re interested in technology, arts, science, or social impact, the INSPIRE series...

03/26/2024

TEDxSantaCruz (4/13)

Join us for the 6th All-Day event and be ready to have your heart and mind blown wide-open.

Santa Cruz serves as a fertile ground where ideas incubate, converge, and spark innovation. The vibrant interplay of ideas, creative energy, and the rich tapestry of diversity within Santa Cruz County is the beating heart of TEDxSantaCruz.

Our “Rising Together” theme suggests a scale of collaboration that currently doesn’t exist. As a society, we are facing huge challenges such as climate change, preserving natural resources, racism, poverty, lack of health care, homelessness, and educational inequalities.

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Join us for the 6th All-Day event and be ready to have your heart and mind blown wide-open. Santa Cruz serves as a fertile ground where ideas incubate, converge, and spark innovation. The vibrant interplay of ideas, creative energy, and the rich tapestry of diversity within Santa Cruz County is the....

03/20/2024

April Slugs and Steins with Assistant Professor Joji Muramoto (4/8)

What can organic strawberry research tell us about the health of our soil, plants, and humans?

California leads the nation in organic agriculture. However, public support for organic agriculture in California is lagging. As the first organic production specialist with statewide responsibility, I will discuss the status and challenges of organic production in California. Further, soil-borne disease management in organic production will be discussed using a case study of California strawberries and the concept of integrated soil health management.

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What can organic strawberry research tell us about the health of our soil, plants, and humans? California leads the nation in organic agriculture. However, public support for organic agriculture in California is lagging. As the first organic production specialist with statewide responsibility, I wil...

03/20/2024

Emeriti Faculty Lecture, Spring 2024 (4/4)

Notes from the Life of a Peripatetic Revolutionary

Xu Ming had many identities: coddled son of an elite family, patriotic activist, underground Communist organizer, Clark University graduate student, New York-based journalist, land reform organizer, Korean War negotiator, diplomat, politically disgraced Rightist, rural laborer, small-town junior high basketball coach, globe-trotting government economic advisor, eyewitness to the 1989 Tiananmen suppression. This lecture explores what we can learn from the life of a single individual about a canonical event of Big History—the Chinese Communist revolution.

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Notes from the Life of a Peripatetic Revolutionary Xu Ming had many identities: coddled son of an elite family, patriotic activist, underground Communist organizer, Clark University graduate student, New York-based journalist, land reform organizer, Korean War negotiator, diplomat, politically disgr...

03/20/2024

Kraw Lecture: The Earthquake Problem (4/3)

When will the next big one hit? Earthquake prediction is high in the public’s imagination and remains the central, unsolved problem for earthquake physicists.

Join Emily Brodsky, professor and earthquake physicist at UC Santa Cruz, for an in depth discussion about when earthquakes might happen.

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When will the next big one hit? Earthquake prediction is high in the public’s imagination and remains the central, unsolved problem for earthquake physicists. Join Emily Brodsky, professor and earthquake physicist at UC Santa Cruz, for an in depth discussion about when earthquakes might happen. Pr...

03/20/2024

Inspire: Leading Ideas from UC Santa Cruz, Artificial Intelligence (4/18)

We’re bringing UC Santa Cruz to you.

Join us for a series of events to connect, discover, and imagine. We’ll explore new ideas with thought leaders, innovators, and visionaries across different fields. Whether you’re interested in technology, arts, science, or social impact, the INSPIRE series has something for all UCSC alumni, parents, and friends.

UCSC is pushing boundaries, breaking molds, and creating positive change. We’re bringing this change to you.

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We’re bringing UC Santa Cruz to you. Join us for a series of events to connect, discover, and imagine. We’ll explore new ideas with thought leaders, innovators, and visionaries across different fields. Whether you’re interested in technology, arts, science, or social impact, the INSPIRE series...

03/11/2024

2024 Mandel Lecture-- The Last Stargazers: True Stories and Adventures of UC Santa Cruz Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics (4/17)

The Mandel Lecture promotes public awareness and appreciation for astronomy. This year's public lecture will feature Emily Levesque as the speaker, whos research explains how the largest (and weirdest!) stars in the universe evolve and die.

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The Mandel Lecture promotes public awareness and appreciation for astronomy. This year's public lecture will feature Emily Levesque as the speaker, whos research explains how the largest (and weirdest!) stars in the universe evolve and die. Have you ever gazed at the night sky and pondered its myste...

03/11/2024

Alumni Reunion Weekend (4/12)

Alumni Reunion Weekend recognizes alumni who are celebrating their 50th (or greater!) anniversary of graduating. Our golden alumni, graduates between 1965-1974 are an important part of UCSC history. Alumni along with pioneer faculty and staff will return to campus to reminisce and reconnect in a place they once called home.

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Alumni Reunion Weekend recognizes alumni who are celebrating their 50th (or greater!) anniversary of graduating. Our golden alumni, graduates between 1965-1974 are an important part of UCSC history. Alumni along with pioneer faculty and staff will return to campus to reminisce and reconnect in a pla...

03/11/2024

57th Annual Faculty Research Lecture featuring Professor Gina Athena Ulysse (4/16)

Inspired by Sinéad O'Connor and 11th Hour’s caffeine chronicles, this epic stream of consciousness ethnographic poem meditates on origins, a theory of everything, the dark arts, shadow work in the upside down of arboreal classrooms in these redwoods on Indigenous Land of the so-called holy cross…

Lacing ancestral chants, cosmos spaciousness, history with misfit tales, this non psychedelic surrealist journey explores the contours of linear and all-around time in search of aliveness on scorched earth while ruminating on the impossibility of all sentient beings everywhere experiencing peace among the plantocracy with their disdain for brilliance where praxis is a floating signifier and our humanity is routinely questioned.

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The Whole Time... A Redwoods Rasanblaj Epic Poem on 7 Pwen Inspired by Sinéad O'Connor and 11th Hour’s caffeine chronicles, this epic stream of consciousness ethnographic poem meditates on origins, a theory of everything, the dark arts, shadow work in the upside down of arboreal classrooms in the...

02/23/2024

The UC Santa Cruz Kraw Lecture Series presents: Designing Human AI-Ecosystems for Education, Work, and Community (3/13)

Join Professor David Lee as he delves into the art of designing ecosystems to help navigate the rapid currents of change. Discover how he has expanded student learning opportunities through hands-on projects, connecting education with real-world social innovation. Explore the role of AI in enhancing learning and collaboration alongside reflections on fostering more human-centered human-AI interactions.

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Join Professor David Lee as he delves into the art of designing ecosystems to help navigate the rapid currents of change. Discover how he has expanded student learning opportunities through hands-on projects, connecting education with real-world social innovation. Explore the role of AI in enhancing...

02/23/2024

Inspire: Leading Ideas from UC Santa Cruz (3/21)

We’re bringing UC Santa Cruz to you.
Join us for a series of events to connect, discover, and imagine. We’ll explore new ideas with thought leaders, innovators, and visionaries across different fields. Whether you’re interested in technology, arts, science, or social impact, the INSPIRE series has something for all UCSC alumni, parents, and friends.

UCSC is pushing boundaries, breaking molds, and creating positive change. We’re bringing this change to you.

Join us for our first event about global & community health in Los Angeles!

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02/16/2024

2024 EDGE in Tech Symposium - Advancing Health Tech for All (3/8)

Join CITRIS and the Banatao Institute on Friday, March 8, 2024, for Advancing Health Tech for All, in the Community Education Room of the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at UC Davis. A livestream will also be available for anyone unable to attend in person.

The eighth annual EDGE in Tech Symposium explores how diversity in talent can drive innovation in health tech, aiming for inclusive solutions that benefit everyone.

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Join CITRIS and the Banatao Institute on Friday, March 8, 2024, for Advancing Health Tech for All, in the Community Education Room of the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at UC Davis. A livestream will also be available for anyone unable to attend in person. The eighth annual EDGE in....