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Friday Events
UC Santa Cruz invites all alumni to return to campus for Alumni Weekend, April 26–28. The weekend will include a festive weekend kickoff on the patio at...
The Physics Department invites you to an Open House on Friday, April 26 from 12:00-4:30pm. Lab Tours: From noon to 1:30pm We will be featuring lab tours for...
4/26 12pm
The UC Santa Cruz Graduate Research Symposium offers graduate students from every division the opportunity to discuss their research with colleagues on...
4/26 1pm
Come celebrate with the winners of this year's Graduate Research Symposium.
4/26 4pm
CELEBRATE OUR PAST ~ EMBRACE OUR FUTURE! Celebrations abound! Please join Crown's Pioneer Class as we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Crown College at the...
4/26 4:30pm
Alumni Asking and Sharing event offers graduate students the opportunity to talk to alumni from high-tech companies in Silicon Valley. Graduate students will...
Come downtown and bring your friends to join fellow alumni on the Woodstock's patio for pizza, games, and happy hour specials. First 100 attendees will get a...
Annapurna Pandey, Department of Anthropology lecturer, presents "Road to Zuni", a documentary about Professor Emeritus Triloki Pandey and his work with the...
Reconnect with old friends, discuss life since your days at UC Santa Cruz, and enjoy light hors d’oeuvres and refreshments.
Way beyond entertainment, games and playable media are being used in healthcare, industrial training, and much more. Join us for a fun presentation from our...
Calling all Jewish Slugs and their friends and family. This Alumni Weekend, please join Santa Cruz Hillel for an uplifting Shabbat service and a delicious...
4/26 6:15pm
Lace up your running shoes for a scenic 5K in support of student scholarships. A beautiful course rambles through all 10 colleges and iconic campus spots,...
4/27 8am
Start your day with old friends and new as you connect over coffee and donuts prior to the Cowell Colloquium.
4/27 8:30am
Cowell College invites you to join us in the dedication of Bhuwan Lal Joshi's memorial plaque, Bhuwan's Piece / Peace. Josi was a faculty in the Psychology...
Come together in community to celebrate the amazing natural beauty and incredible biodiversity of the UC Santa Cruz campus. Join staff from the UC Santa...
We would love to have you join us this summer for Summer Session! UC Santa Cruz Summer Session is open to all alumni, family, friends, and even high school...
4/27 9am
The Merrill Society is a group of engaged alumni, faculty, staff, and students devoted to the mission of Merrill College. The breakfast brings you news about...
4/27 9:30am
Join Patty Nelson, Provost Alan Christy, other Cowell historians, and students as they reflect on the combination of humor and historical perspective as a...
Come visit with old friends and learn what the Economics department is up to these days. After a brief introduction and short presentation, enjoy a...
4/27 10am
The Recreation program invites former and current Recreation student and non-student staff for a day of connections, reflections, local adventure and...
Join us in Quarry Plaza and learn about the UCSC First Generation Initiative, as we welcome our alumni back to campus. The UCSC First Generation Initiative...
4/27 10am
As part of Alumni Weekend, enjoy a walking tour of the 30-acre UC Santa Cruz/CASFS Farm. Founded in 1971, the Farm offers vibrant examples of organic farming...
4/27 10am
Come see the incredible winning photos of the Global Photo Contest. Students, faculty, staff, and alumni submit photos in two categories: pictures from...
A fun and creative craft and game zone for children of all ages.
4/27 11am
Please join past and present faculty and staff, and current students in what's sure to be a lively, thought provoking discussion about community activism. An...
Start your Saturday off right with brunch at the Women's Center! Mingle with resource center students, staff, and directors, including the newly hired...
No quizzes! Just cool ideas. Join us to experience some of what keeps our faculty and students busy. David Bernick, Assistant Adjunct Professor of...
Future Garden, a major art and science project by Newton Harrison and his late wife and lifelong collaborator Helen Mayer Harrison, is now on view at the UC...
4/27 11am
Annual award luncheon for five distinguished graduate student alumni, one from each academic division. This year's luncheon will include a panel discussion...
4/27 11:30am
Visit the Seymour Center and take a behind the scenes tour of the Long Marine Lab. Tour stops include Shipwreck Deck, Blue Whale Skeleton, and Marine Mammal...
4/27 11:30am
Cowell students studying STEM fields have the opportunity to meet informally to discuss career paths and opportunities with Cowell alumni who have worked in...
The Digital Arts and New Media (DANM) program is pleased to present the 2019 MFA Thesis Exhibition opening reception. This multi-sited exhibition is free and...
Executive perspective on experiential learning and entrepreneurial thinking in engineering education
This event will bring a causal but focused conversation on the intersection of the built environment and community, its relevance to student success, and how...
4/27 12pm
Porter Provost Sean Keilen invites you to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of College V. The festivities will include an exhibition about...
4/27 12pm
Join your friends and family and choose between a gourmet carry-out box lunch, or grab some tacos from our very own taco truck, and enjoy at tables in Quarry...
4/27 12pm
Join current UC Santa Cruz undergraduates for a tour of Collective Museum, the campus-wide art project by Portland-based artist group Public Doors and...
Join us at the Norris Center for an open house showcasing the work of the past year. The Norris Center is a natural history museum, and a hub natural history...
Join Younger Lagoon Reserve for its fourth annual community-building bioblitz event and help inventory the biodiversity of Younger Lagoon Reserve. This...
Talks by four PBSci faculty (who are themselves UC Santa Cruz alumni) accompanied by a beer, wine, and snacks reception. Includes tables and tours to learn...
4/27 1:30pm
Join us for a Behind the Scenes look at work currently underway in various engineering labs. Presentations will include: The Institute for the Biology of...
4/27 1:30pm
Listen to Hitchcock again and respond from our perspective in 2019. Facilitated by pioneer alumna Judy Einzig.
4/27 1:30pm
Come learn about the stem cell research being done at UCSC. The IBSC is hosting lab tours with short presentations for non-scientists and brief...
We welcome all LGBTQIA+ Banana Slugs, their loved ones, and families to (re)connect with current students and staff at the Cantú and to mix and mingle with...
Please join us for a wine & cheese reception with the added opportunity for guided tours of campus sustainability projects and the S-Lab.
This event will review the bold and radical educational vision of UC Santa Cruz since its inception, while introducing alumni to the innovative 21st-century...
Professor Noel Q. King helped introduce the study of religion to a young UC Santa Cruz and helped engage Merrill College students in lifelong curiosity about...
4/27 2:30pm
Relax, refresh, connect!
Did you play soccer while you were at UC Santa Cruz? Come visit with old teammates and support our current team as they play their Annual Spring Soccer Game.
Over the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, psychoactive substances from gin and whiskey to cannabis and opium underwent rapid...
4/27 3pm
Stop to take a breath and unwind with fellow alumni in the beautiful setting of the restored Quarry Amphitheater. Grab a drink and a bite here before heading...
Connect with old friends from the Psychology Department! Please join us at our table at the Beer & Wine Reception.
Dr. Kelly Falkner is the Director of the National Science Foundation's Office of Polar Programs. Her work in the position led her NSF colleagues to name the...
SOAR, Student Media, and Cultural Arts and Diversity (SOMeCA) will celebrate 30 years of student organizing with the annual Dinner with Alumni on Saturday,...
4/27 5:30pm
Welcome home, pioneer class! Pioneer faculty, staff, and alumni, please join us for the pioneer class reunion celebration, including a reception, dinner,...
Welcome home Crown Pioneer class! Come celebrate and dine with us as we reminisce about the good ole days.
The Pioneer Class community rock band, Flowers of Evil, is getting together once more to rock the Stevenson Event Center and all who enter there! Join us for...
The Research Center for the Americas (RCA) is throwing a HUGE dance party, featuring live, local band Calíco. Calíco, will get us moving with their...
Learn about the new, alumni-initiated effort to renew multi-generational intellectual community in Cowell and Stevenson Colleges. Share your ideas for how it...
Join us for brunch! Our interim campus planner, Jolie Kerns, and members of Studio-Gang will give a short tour of Kresge, and we'll also hear from current...
4/28 9:30am
Join us for brunch and get caught up on all the latest news and events at Cowell College. Welcome to the Pioneers in their 50 year reunion.
The annual Provost’s Brunch will feature a presentation about the new Merrill Core course and the rethinking of all college Core courses as the first part of...
Reunite with alumni and meet current student leaders, staff, and faculty while enjoying mimosas, juices and brunch at the provost house
4/28 10am
College Nine and College Ten invite you to enjoy a sampling of unforgettable treats from your favorite local Santa Cruz spots! See old friends and new as you...
4/28 10:45am
All Crownies past and present are invited to this lively annual event
4/28 11am
Come to the first Oakes alumni brunch since the re-naming of the provost house! Enjoy a casual brunch, including mimosas, as you converse with other alumni...
Come join the physics faculty, grads, undergrads, and staff for our fun, famous, annual Physics Picnic and Softball Game at DeLaVeaga Park, in the Lone Tree...
4/28 11:30am
Come enjoy live music in the company of friends. This year’s event will be extra poignant as we remember emeritus professor John Dizikes, one of UC Santa...
Women’s Soccer will be holding their spring scrimmage against Academy of Art. Alumni players and fans are invited. Go slugs!
4/28 12pm
Join current students, faculty and staff for a discussion on the college's Statement of Principles and what Adlai Stevenson means today. “Patriotism is not...
In the 1960s we were a generation that created new cultural paradigms. Now, on the edge of a new time in our life, it is time to brainstorm about what we...
The alumni/ae-initiated Smith Society serves students who come from adverse circumstances and lack the usual family support -- former foster youths, those...
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