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.

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.

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.

"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."

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.