At Cooper

Digital Issue: Vol. LVI, No. 2
 

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Students and faculty contribute their talents to exhibitions across New York City. Cooper’s newest alumni are honored at the 166th Commencement ceremony. An extraordinary End of Year Show transforms the campus into a public gallery. Nekisha Durrett A’98 and Emily Oberman A’85 present at the twelfth annual Typographics conference. An intergenerational alumni connection inspires a generous gift. The community looks ahead to All Cooper Weekend.

At Cooper is the official magazine of The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. Each issue celebrates the outsize impact of the Cooper community across architecture, art, engineering, humanities and social sciences, and civic life.

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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.