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Engineering to Save Lives

Student Benjamin Strauss says that his work as an EMT inspired him to develop projects that allow less intrusive and more attentive care to ambulance patients. After learning of a dangerous yet common misdiagnosis of a heart attack on the job, Strauss set out to create a device that would help medical professionals detect silent heart attacks with greater accuracy.

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A Framework for Action

Cooper Union is exploring new academic programs that integrate the schools in powerful ways, while preserving full scholarships in its three core undergraduate programs. Read President Jamshed Bharucha’s April 24, 2012 letter to the community, and CU Alumni Association President Peter Cafiero's follow-up letter.

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TEDx at Cooper Union

Speakers doing innovative and interdisciplinary work gave talks on April 24 during Found in Translation, Cooper Union’s first TEDx conference. Watch this space for videos of the conference lectures to be posted in the weeks to come.

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The Brain and the Mind

It's the biologistic view of the brain that leading neuroscientist Michael S. Gazzaniga challenges in his recent book Who's In Charge? Free Will and the Science of the Brain. Speaking in the Cooper Union's Great Hall, Gazzaniga argued for a mechanistic brain that enabled, rather than enslaved, a free mind.

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Draw It with Your Eyes Closed

"When the American painter, sculptor and installation artist Paul Thek (1933-88) taught art classes at Cooper Union in the late 1970s, he wrote and then gave to his students a long, provocative and now famous list of questions and marching orders he titled Teaching Notes."

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Student Enterprise at the Cooper Union

Senior Edison Wang teamed up with NYU's Jane Zhu to develop SleepBot, an application for Android currently boasting over 600,000 downloads and 400,000 regular users. SleepBot is a leading contender in the field of personal awareness tech—specifically helping users track their sleeping patterns.

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  • Founded by inventor, industrialist and philanthropist Peter Cooper in 1859, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art offers education in art, architecture and engineering, as well as courses in the humanities and social sciences.

  • “My feelings, my desires, my hopes, embrace humanity throughout the world,” Peter Cooper proclaimed in a speech in 1853. He looked forward to a time when, “knowledge shall cover the earth as waters cover the great deep.”

  • From its beginnings, Cooper Union was a unique institution, dedicated to founder Peter Cooper's proposition that education is the key not only to personal prosperity but to civic virtue and harmony.

  • Peter Cooper wanted his graduates to acquire the technical mastery and entrepreneurial skills, enrich their intellects and spark their creativity, and develop a sense of social justice that would translate into action.