Award & Grant Opportunities
In keeping with its mission to promote an ethos of sustainability and ecological awareness, the Institute for Sustainable Design assigns annual awards and grants in topics related to sustainability.
- CUISD Summer Challenge Fellowship The Institute's Summer Challenge Fellowship supports student teams from all schools of The Cooper Union in an interdisciplinary endeavor to combine scientific and visual research that culminates in a project that both investigates issues of sustainability and seeks to conflate the bounds of science, art, architecture and engineering.
- Service to Sustainability Award The Institute’s Service to Sustainability Award recognizes the people and organizations that not only share our continued commitment to sustainability, but also facilitate the adaptation of sustainability locally and within larger global societies.
- Special Projects Grant The Institute’s Special Projects Grant’s overall objective is to help realize and advance the Institute’s Mission. The Grant encourages modest scale research projects that educate our Cooper Union community on issues of sustainability and the working relationship of students and faculty of the Cooper Union.