EECS

We have an opportunity to stand on the right side of history; if we don’t, we will look back with regret.

Members of Cal Bears Against ICE held an informational rally Tuesday on Upper Sproul Plaza to demand that UC Berkeley’s electrical engineering and computer sciences, or EECS, department cut ties with software company Palantir.

Cal Bears Against ICE held a protest at an Amazon recruitment session at UC Berkeley on Wednesday evening to contest campus relations with companies holding contractual agreements with ICE.

It’s crucial that campus and the university at large put their money where their mouth is and support companies with society’s best interests at heart.

About 50 students and community members met at 12 p.m. to march against UC Berkeley’s ties with Silicon Valley software giant Palantir, which was set to hold a campus information session with the electrical engineering and computer sciences, or EECS, department Tuesday.

The UC Berkeley College of Engineering was ranked the number one public engineering college in the nation by U.S. News & World Report, as well as the third best engineering college overall.

UC Berkeley alumna Sally Floyd, a computer scientist known for her work on congestion control, died Aug. 25 at age 69, leaving behind her wife Carole Leita.

Forbes has selected several UC Berkeley students out of thousands of business and technology students around the world to participate in the Forbes Under 30 Scholar Summit this fall.

Singer taught and conducted research at UC Berkeley within both the biophysics department and the electrical engineering and computer sciences department for 25 years, earning the title of engineering science professor emeritus.

While boasting of the academic merits of its students, the UC system simultaneously fails to treat its university employees with respect.