At Cooper Fall 2025

Digital Issue: Vol. LV, No. 2

 

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Student Trustee Angie Zuo talks to Cooper’s new president, Steve McLaughlin; Professor Nader Tehrani’s firm NADAAA reimagines galleries at the Met; Nekisha Durrett’s A’98 creates a memorial to Black workers at Bryn Mawr College; Max G. Wolf CE’05 M.Eng’25 discusses passive house design and curbing greenhouse gas emissions from New York City buildings; and more.

Update, November 10, 2025: See NADAAA's latest design renderings here.

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