Design Templates
Canva templates are available to you, including branded designs for posters, brochures, postcards and more. Contact someone from the Communications and Marketing team to have them shared with you.

Presentation Template
There is a Science Division branded Google Slide template for presentations located in your Slides Template Gallery. Navigate to it by going to your Google Drive, choose Slides, then click Template Gallery and choose “PBSci Presentation Template 2022”.

University Branded Letterhead
There is a UCSC branded Google Doc letterhead template located in your Docs Template Gallery. Navigate to it by going to your Google Drive, choose Docs, then click Template Gallery. Choose the UC Santa Cruz tab, and scroll down to the “Letters” section where you will see a template called “2025 UCSC Letterhead”.

Event materials: Check out tabling materials for your event, including tablecloths (divisional and departmental), banners, and pop up tents. Fill out the science tabling kit check out form.

Add your event to the campus calendar: The campus event calendar is using a new system. If you need to submit an event, you can follow the instructions in our Events Calendar Documentation or contact your website liaisons on the Communications and Marketing team for help.

Event photography: Read these event photography tips on how to take great photos at your event. Use these photo releases to get permission to use photos with people in them.

Review the divisional and campus email guidelines to ensure best practices are met for marketing emails (newsletters, event invites, etc.).

View the divisional email guidelines

View the campus email guidelines

Photo libraries: Browse the Science photo library or campus photo library to find photos for your website and more.

Event photography: Read these event photography tips on how to take great photos at your event. Use these photo releases to get permission to use photos with people in them.

Notify us of your research activity, awards, or other newsworthy information by emailing Mike Peña at mivpena@ucsc.edu.

Have something fun or exciting that you would like to see featured on the Science Division’s social media accounts? Share it with us by emailing someone from the Communications and Marketing team. Great photos help!

Find UCSC Science logos in png and illustrator formats, as well as the High Impact Science graphic.

Download our logos

Accessibility Checklist
Are you running a social media account for your department, unit, or student org? If so, please make sure your posts meet our campus accessibility standards by reviewing and adhering to this checklist.

Alt Tag Shortcut
For anyone running a modern Mac with macOS Tahoe or Sequoia, you can install this Apple Shortcut to get an image description from an image file on your computer by right-clicking and selecting Quick Actions > Describe this image (you may need to click customize to enable the shortcut). The file is sent to ChatGPT (no account required), and then a description of the image is added to your clipboard. Here’s a video tutorial. We’ve noticed extremely large images (+18 MB) do not work, and, of course, with all things AI, we should always review what’s created. 

Find more information on campus-wide branding and marketing/communications standards on the UCSC Communications and Marketing website.