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    Apple: The First 50 Years

    CBS Sunday Morning correspondent David Pogue is joined by tech journalists, Lauren Goode of Wired and Joanna Stern of The Wall Street Journal, for a conversation about Apple’s global impact

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    Future Relic

    A conversation with Cooper Union alumnus Daniel Arsham about his new memoir that touches on failures, disasters, detours, and how he made a career as an artist

  • The words of May Day & The Commons in black over green and red historical images

    May Day and the Commons

    Historian Peter Linebaugh gives a lecture in honor of May Day

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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.