Faculty News 2024
2024
- May 07
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Meet the New Saturday Program Staff
We spoke with José Ortiz, the new director of The Cooper Union Saturday Program, and Ciana Malchione A'21, who was recently promoted to assistant director.
- April 16
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Meet New STEM Outreach Director, Yvonne Thevenot
The Cooper Union welcomes Yvonne Thevenot as the new director of STEM Outreach, which offers a host of educational programs to New York City high school students.
Faculty: News
- April 12
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Introducing our Newest Staff Members
Blair Ribeiro, Lizbeth Soto, and Jake Zweiback have joined Albert Nerken School of Engineering Dean’s Office
- April 03
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Assistant Professor of Art Fia Backström Receives the Borlem Prize
Faculty: News
- March 25
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Professor Jennifer Weiser Receives Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award for 2024-2025
Dr. Jennifer Weiser, an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award in Biomedical Sciences to Austria for the 2024-2025 academic year from the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.
Faculty: News
- February 29
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Cooper Solar Decathlon Team's Sure We Can Design Secures Finalist Position
Over the weekend, The Cooper Union Solar Decathlon team delivered a virtual presentation to a panel of jurors at the 2024 Solar Decathlon Design Challenge Semifinal and secured a place as a finalist under the Multifamily Building Division
- February 21
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Cooper Union Engineering Students Participate in 10th Virtual Winter School on Computational Chemistry
Several Cooper Union engineering students participated in the 10th Virtual Winter School on Computational Chemistry to learn how computational quantum mechanics is used to study the structures, reactions, and applications of chemical compounds, biomolecules, and materials
Faculty: News
- January 30
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Art and Architecture Faculty Participate in the Whitney Biennial 2024
The 2024 Whitney Biennial features current adjunct faculty members from both the School of Art and The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture.
- January 08
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Brian Swann's Latest Book Chronicles Life During COVID
The latest book by Brian Swann, professor emeritus of humanities, is titled Ya-Honk! Goes the Wild Gander or, Covid Divagations.
Faculty: News
2023
- December 01
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2023 AIChE Annual Student Conference: Chemical Engineering Students Win Top Awards
Last month, chemical engineering students and faculty attended the 2023 AIChE Annual Student Conference in Orlando, Florida. AIChE stands as the foremost global organization for chemical engineering professionals, boasting over 60,000 members from 110 countries.
- November 16
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Mechanical Engineering Students Presented at ASME’s 2023 IMECE
In early November, Cooper mechanical engineering students Brandon Bunt BSE’22 MME, Maya Grutman ME’24, Calder Leppitsch ME’24, Daniel Zaretsky ME’24, Benjamin Meiner ME’24, Jason Chen ME’24, Christos Potamianos ME’25, and Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Kamau Wright, Associate Professor of Mechanical and C.V. Starr Distinguished Professor Dirk M. Luchtenburg, and Adjunct Professor Robert Dell attended and presented research at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) 2023 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE) in New Orleans, Louisiana.
- November 09
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Faculty-Curated Exhibition on Jewish Italian Artist Corrado Cagli at CIMA
A new exhibition, curated by HSS professor Raffaele Bedarida, explores the life and work of Jewish Italian artist Corrado Cagli and is accompanied by a series of talks featuring Cooper Union faculty.
Faculty: News
- October 17
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Meet Eilin Pérez, Visiting Assistant Professor of History
Eilin Rafael Pérez joins the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences this semester as a visiting assistant professor of history.
- October 12
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In Memoriam: Winston Wilkerson
Wilkerson worked at Cooper Union for nearly 50 years
- October 12
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Three Questions for Mokena Makeka
An award-winning architect, Mokena Makeka joins the Cooper community this month in the new role of special advisor to the vice president of academic affairs.
- September 27
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Columbia’s Generous Donations Bolster School of Engineering's Technological Arsenal
The Albert Nerken School of Engineering was gifted fabrication tools from Columbia University's closing Nevis Laboratories that was once home to the earliest cyclotrons ever built
- September 11
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Dirk Martin Luchtenburg Named 2023 C.V. Starr Professor
Faculty: News
- September 08
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William Villalongo Bridges Histories of Black Identity
Black Menagerie, on view through October 14, 2023, is Associate Professor William Villalongo's A'99 seventh solo exhibition at Susan Inglett Gallery
Faculty: News
- September 05
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Meet Ninad Pandit, Assistant Professor of History
The fifth installment in a series introducing several full-time faculty members who join Cooper this fall.
Faculty: News
- August 30
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Two Professors of Mathematics Collaborated on a Publication Featured in the Journal Of Computational Neuroscience
- August 28
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Meet Victor Peterson II, Assistant Professor of Humanities
The fourth installment in a series introducing several full-time faculty members who join Cooper this fall.
Faculty: News
- August 28
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Matthew Leach ME'24 and Prof. Alice Pisani Attended the Euclid Satellite Launch
Matthew Leach, a senior mechanical engineering student, and Alice Pisani, assistant professor of physics, attended the July launch in Florida
Faculty: News
- August 21
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Meet Hejintao Huang, Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering
The third installment in a series introducing several full-time faculty members who join Cooper this fall.
Faculty: News
- August 14
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Meet Lex Lancaster, Assistant Professor of Art History
The second installment in a series introducing several full-time faculty members who join Cooper this fall.
Faculty: News
- August 07
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Biomedical Partnership Bolsters Real-World Connections
A mutually beneficial exchange between The Cooper Union and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has allowed students, faculty, and alumni to collaborate on groundbreaking biomedical research.
- August 07
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Meet Jeong Eun Ahn, Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering
The first installment in a series introducing several full-time faculty members who join Cooper this fall.
Faculty: News
- August 03
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Assistant Professor Alice Pisani Co-Published in The Astronomy & Astrophysics Journal
Faculty: News
- July 26
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Dean Shoop Appointed to New National Academy Of Engineering Committee
Faculty: News
- July 06
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Three Questions for Demetrius L. Eudell
A historian and former dean of social sciences at Wesleyan University, Dr. Eudell joins The Cooper Union as the vice president of academic affairs.
Faculty: News
- June 28
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Minisymposium Co-organized by Professor Stanislav Mintchev at the 2023 SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems
- June 28
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Introducing Our Newest Staff Members
- June 22
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Professor Robert Dell Receives Cobb Partnership Award from Us Embassy and Fulbright Commission In Iceland
Faculty: News
- June 01
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New Civil Engineering Department Faculty