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Upcoming Events & Exhibitions

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Apr 2
Sara Cwynar: Henry Wolf Chair in Photography Artist Talk
Apr3

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Apr 3
Of Subways & Offsides
Apr4

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Apr 4
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer

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The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture

Michael Young speaks at the Lincoln lectern

Michael Young Receives Arts & Letters Architecture Award

School of Art

Coco Fusco Elected to American Academy of Arts & Letters

Albert Nerken School of Engineering

Professor Robert Q. Topper Receives Teaching Award from the New York American Chemical Society

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Center for Writing and Learning Debuts New Journal

$1 Million Grant Takes Innovation to the Next Level

The IDC Foundation has awarded Cooper a $1 million grant establishing two new distinguished professorships and supporting continued innovation in architecture, engineering, and building construction.

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Exhibition Celebrates Women's History

An exhibition in the colonnade of the Foundation Building featured influential and inspiring women who have brought music, performance, and dialogue to the Great Hall in recent years.

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NEA Grant for Myths and Migrations

The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts was selected to receive a National Endowment for Arts grant in support of a new solo-exhibition by Professor William Villalongo A'99.

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In Memoriam: Ricardo Scofidio AR’55

The renowned architect passed away on March 6, leaving an extraordinary legacy as designer and teacher.

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Open Call

Mokena Makeka, director of the CPL, opens a call for proposals that engage Cooper’s disciplines to generate new ideas, solutions, or innovations for our shared civic life. Submissions are accepted on a rolling basis.

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Welcome to our Fall 2025 Entering Class

Looking forward to hosting you and your guests this Sunday.

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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.