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• Sat May 2, 10:00 am - 10:00 pm • Sun May 3, 10:00 am - 6:00 pm Free and open to the public! Location: Wallis Annenberg Stadium

Join a Garden Guide for a free tour on May 2 at 10 am. Explore our living museum featuring collections of plants from around the globe! You'll hear stories of selected plants in the Garden and their relevance to human society. All ages are welcome. Tours meet at La Kretz Garden Pavilion at the northern end of the Garden and are given a grace period of 5 minutes. This event is free and open to the public, no RSVP required. Location: La Kretz Garden Pavilion, 707 Tiverton Drive

Energize your body and step into a season of renewal and movement! Experience a vibrant, colorful journey designed to boost your well-being and keep you engaged along the way. Represent team UCLA in the 2026 UC Moves systemwide movement campaign with the Bloom Springtime Wellness Challenge platform. Get moving and record daily physical activity starting May 4 with your favorite tracker or on your mobile or desktop device. Spots are limited!

Feel free to drop by and chat with RISE Health and Wellbeing Coordinator! Whether you want to discuss campus mental health resources, get connected to CAPS, manage academic stress, or just need someone to talk to, we're here for you. Location: RISE Center at Lu Valle Commons Basement Level

The mindful writing retreat will integrate simple techniques from mindfulness to support the writing process and cultivate an approach to writing that fosters balance, self-care, and well-being. Please bring a current writing project because much of the retreat time will be allocated for writing. All sessions will be remotely conducted via Zoom.

Need to ease your grading load in a large course? Join us to explore techniques for delivering feedback efficiently and effectively at scale while still providing students with encouragement and direction to meet their goals. Presenter: Ava Arndt, Program Director for Innovation in Online and Accessible Pedagogy, Graduate Student Professional Development with Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Scholar Engagement #effective-efficient-grading #large-enrollment #timely-feedback #support-student-learning Each academic quarter, the UCLA Teaching and Learning Center (TLC) hosts a weekly series of 10+10 Pop-Up sessions on Zoom. These brief, 10-minute presentations focus on specific topics related to course design, teaching, learning, and assessment, and are led by instructional designers and developers from TLC and campus partners. The “+10” refers to an optional 10-minute discussion following each presentation, where participants can ask questions and share insights. These sessions are open to all UCLA instructors—including faculty, lecturers, instructors of record, graduate student instructors, and postdoctoral scholars. Please direct any inquiries to instructorsupport@teaching.ucla.edu.

Feel free to drop by and chat with RISE Health and Wellbeing Coordinator! Whether you want to discuss campus mental health resources, get connected to CAPS, manage academic stress, or just need someone to talk to, we're here for you. Location: RISE Center at Lu Valle Commons Basement Level

The Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, in partnership with the David Geffen School of Medicine, invites faculty, staff and students to a games pop-up focused on collaboration and well-being. Library staff will be available to help facilitate the games, and all levels of experience are welcome. This open, drop-in event is a chance to step away from daily routines, share a moment of play, and engage with colleagues across roles and disciplines. Come relax, meet new people and help build a stronger, more connected campus community. RSVP is suggested; walk-ins welcome. Hosted by UCLA Library and DGSOM Office of Outreach and Pathway Programs and Cultural North Star. Location: Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library

Beginner-friendly stretching and meditation with UCLA Rec Instructor Binny. All equipment provided (yoga mats, blocks). Location: RISE Center at Lu Valle Commons Basement Level

Come join RISE for a free, one-hour workshop from Project UnLonely that bridges creative expression with meaningful connection-building! Location: RISE Center at Lu Valle Commons Basement Level

Join a welcoming, judgment-free space for graduating seniors to unwind, share their anxieties, and navigate the excitement and uncertainty of transitioning beyond college together. Location: RISE Center at Lu Valle Commons Basement Level

This workshop providesThis workshop provides an overview on the various forms of academic dishonesty regarding plagiarism. Participants will learn when, where, and why it is important to cite properly. Students will also learn how to avoid plagiarism and the information presented will stress the need to attribute work to the original author and the potential outcomes for plagiarizing. Additionally, paraphrasing, and direct quoting will be discussed. ZOOM. Register through MyEvents on MyUCLA.

Luis de Carvajal el Mozo (the Younger) was a crypto-Jew from Benavente who traveled to New Spain in the late 1500s and was arrested and ultimately killed, alongside his mother and sisters, by the Mexican Inquisition tribunal. During his time in Mexico and in the Inquisition’s prisons, he wrote theological and mystical treatises as well as a memoir. His story has been canonized in Jewish Studies literature and in recent public memory from Mexico to the U.S. borderlands, and the figure of Luis has served as a canonical center—a nostalgic origin point for the history of Jews’ arrival in the Americas. And yet there remains a crucial story clearly visible in Luis’s writings and in the colonial archive but untold by scholars of crypto-Jewish, Jewish, or Latin American history. If reexamined, the canonized story of the Carvajal family reveals histories of mining, gendered and racialized violence, social hierarchy, and environmental change in colonial Mexico. What historical narratives does a rhetoric of nostalgia, purity, and victimhood preclude? Rachel Kaufman reenters Luis de Carvajal’s famous memoir to complicate the story of Jews in the Americas. Kaufman is a poet, teacher, and Ph.D. candidate in Latin American and Jewish history at UCLA and a recipient of the 2025-26 Kenneth Karmiole Graduate Research Fellowship at the UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. Her work explores diasporic memory, transmission, and violence and argues for the power of poetry as historical method. Location: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/XPBqv9AJRgi0Blvb8rDqyQ#/registration

Feel free to drop by and chat with RISE Health and Wellbeing Coordinator! Whether you want to discuss campus mental health resources, get connected to CAPS, manage academic stress, or just need someone to talk to, we're here for you. Location: RISE Center at Lu Valle Commons Basement Level

We’re excited to collaborate with the Transfer Student Center for our last Community Program Meeting of the academic year! Come spend time unwinding, checking in, and connecting with CRP on Wednesday, May 6th from 4-5 PM at the Transfer Student Center in Kerckhoff Hall 128. Enjoy a free meal, a fun activity, and a meaningful time in community, don't forget to invite your friends! Location: Kerckhoff Hall 128

The Ace and Aro Space is a weekly dialogue and affinity space wanting to build community or learn more about the asexual and/or aromantic spectrums. Location: LGBTQ Campus Resource Center

This workshop will describe literature reviews across multiple contexts and genres. The workshop will also cover strategies and best practices for note-taking, preparatory steps, writing process issues, and organization.

UCLA Environment, Health & Safety (EH&S) works to keep our campus safe, healthy and resilient. Campus Safety Week brings that work into view, offering hands-on tools, demos and resources you won’t encounter in your daily routine. Free swag, goodies and raffle chances so come on by! Safety Tips throughout Campus Safety Week on our website and IG account @uclaehs. Two in person events: May 7th Bruin Plaza 9-3 and May 8th Facilities Management breezeway 8-1:30. Location: Bruin Plaza

Neurodiversity Empowerment Hour is a weekly virtual drop-in space where students can join a brief 10–15 minute session to receive support, learn about helpful campus resources, and explore ways to build skills for wellbeing and success. Location: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/91475273736

Join us for a beginner friendly guided meditation. Take some time to breathe, meet community, and practice mindfulness, spirituality, and stillness. Location: RISE Center at Lu Valle Commons Basement Level

Feel free to drop by and chat with RISE Health and Wellbeing Coordinator! Whether you want to discuss campus mental health resources, get connected to CAPS, manage academic stress, or just need someone to talk to, we're here for you. Location: RISE Center at Lu Valle Commons Basement Level

Join UCLA Financial Aid & Scholarships for a one-hour interactive workshop designed to help newly admitted students and their families better understand their financial aid offer and estimated net cost of attendance. During this hands-on session, a UCLA financial aid expert will walk you through the key parts of your Bruin Financial Aid Letter, explain the different types of aid offered, and demonstrate how to calculate what attending UCLA may actually cost after grants, scholarships, and other support. Please complete the RSVP form below to join us!

Courtney Lewis is the Crandall Family Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. Location: Haines Hall, Room 324

Do you have questions about your professional future or need guidance on your career choices? Join the Career Center counselors over zoom for SwD-specific support! Location: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/99736684465

There’s more to the US Census than meets the eye. Want to learn how you can access and use census data in your research? Join librarians Maggie Tarmey and Kelsey Brown to explore reports, data profiles and datasets on data.census.gov. This lecture-based workshop is designed for researchers of any experience level and will not be recorded. This workshop will be offered via Zoom. If you're registered, you'll receive the Zoom invitation information the day before the workshop Led by Maggie Tarmey, librarian for Geography, Maps, and Economics, and Kelsey Brown, librarian for Archaeology, Public Policy and Urban Planning.

Join the TLC’s new From PhD to Professor series—a professional development pathway designed to support doctoral students and postdocs in preparing to teach as lead instructors and pursue academic careers. The second session in this series, Build Your Own Syllabus, will explore how to plan student workload, pace assignments, and communicate course policies in ways that reflect your teaching values and support student success. From PhD to Professor is designed for doctoral students and postdocs, though master’s and professional students are also welcome to participate. Location: Strathmore Building Conference Room 200

Co-sponsored by the UCLA Library, the Undergraduate Writing Center and the Undergraduate Research Center – Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. Keep your stress levels down while pursuing your research interest! Learn how to create a timeline for your project and manage challenges while staying on track toward your goal. All spring quarter Cornerstone workshops will be held on Zoom.

Share a cup of tea with company at the LGBTQ CRC over a discussion of queerness, diaspora, immigration, and first-gen experiences. All are welcome! Location: LGBTQ Campus Resource Center

oin us at 20s Talk Storytelling for an opportunity to express your experiences in a new format... creative writing! Build skills in creative writing and narrating your life experiences with guided writing prompts, creative exercises, and conversation starters! Location: RISE Center at Lu Valle Commons Basement Level

This workshop will cover strategies for writing longer literature reviews for theses, dissertations, proposals, and review papers. The workshop will also address organizational approaches and writing process issues.

Let’s celebrate you! Each month, we’ll throw a fun and festive birthday bash to recognize all residents with birthdays that month. Whether it’s your actual birthday or you just want to join the celebration, everyone is welcome to stop by for cake, music, and good vibes. Come build connections and create community, and help us make each birthday feel a little more special. Location: De Neve Plaza B

In the 2025-26 Core Program conference, historians of the Ottoman, Qing, and Mughal empires revisit the problem of comparison by considering synchronicities and structural parallels across Asia. The third conference, "Empires of Things," looks at Society, Materiality, and Knowledge. In what new ways did merchants trade, how did artisans and craftsmen organize themselves, how did guilds transform, how did the pious communicate with each other, how did common subjects live, how did spatial imaginaries change? Organized by Professors Choon Hwee Koh & Meng Zhang (History, UCLA) and Abhishek Kaicker (History, UC Berkeley). Location: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

Looking for a calm and creative way to end your week? Grab a cup of tea and join Creative Reset, a weekly hour of creative wellness, to slow down, enjoy arts and crafts, and recharge before the weekend. Each week may include a guided art or craft activity, open time to create, journal, draw, or color at your own pace, and occasional reflective writing prompts to spark creativity and support your wellness. No experience is needed, and all UCLA students are welcome! Location: RISE Center at Lu Valle Commons Basement Level

Join together with other UCLA students for an interactive workshop to learn a core skill for having more constructive conversations across charged political differences. Based on the methodology of Resetting the Table, a nationally renowned organization dedicated to building honest and open communication, this workshop allows students to practice speaking about divisive political topics using effective skills with the support of trained staff. Location: RISE Center at Lu Valle Commons Basement Level

Feel free to drop by and chat with RISE Health and Wellbeing Coordinator! Whether you want to discuss campus mental health resources, get connected to CAPS, manage academic stress, or just need someone to talk to, we're here for you. Location: RISE Center at Lu Valle Commons Basement Level

Join the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television with UCLA's Center for the Art of Performance and DataX for a dialogue with artists and technologists about opportunities and challenges at the intersection of the live arts with contemporary AI, kicked off by a conversation with Grammy Award-winning musician, tech founder & philanthropist, will.i.am, Founder & CEO, FYI.AI. Location: UCLA Nimoy Theater