Transformation in the Making

To mark five years of progress toward the Plan to Return to Full-Tuition Scholarships, we spoke with various community members who have contributed to Cooper's positive transformation.

Cooper Awarded Teagle Grant to Reimagine HSS Core

The Cooper Union receives a $25,000 grant to reimagine the HSS curriculum as part of the Teagle Foundation's Cornerstone initiative.

In Memoriam: Bruce Degen A'66

The Cooper community mourns the passing of Bruce Degen, a 1966 graduate of the School of Art and celebrated illustrator, painter, writer, and printmaker best known for the Magic School Bus series.

Chemical Engineering Students and Faculty Present at the 2024 AIChE Annual Meeting

Great Hall Ledgers Added to Digital Culture of Metro New York

Thanks to a METRO grant, digitized ledgers of the Great Hall from 1858 to 1956 have been made publicly accessible through the DCMNY online portal.

Alex Katz A’49 Awarded National Medal of Arts

The Cooper alumnus was honored during a White House ceremony with the highest award given to artists.

Honoring Professor Fred Fontaine's Elevation to IEEE Senior Member

Jesse Sherman Professor and Chair of Electrical Engineering, Fred Fontaine, has been elevated to the rank of IEEE Senior Member. This significant honor is held by only eight percent of the IEEE’s approximately 428,000 members worldwide.

Three Questions for the New VP for Enrollment

Troy Cogburn joins Cooper as the new vice president for enrollment, overseeing admissions, financial aid, international student management, and the registrar’s office.

Collaboration Takes Root

With funding from the Cooper Union Grant Program, students behind the CU Garden Project have revitalized a rooftop garden as a community space for research and collaboration.

2024 Summer Study Abroad

Each summer, the Albert Nerken School of Engineering offers a 6–8-week study abroad experience to students in their second or third year at Cooper. This summer, eleven students joined programs in Germany, Guatemala, Iceland, Singapore, and Spain.

Students Participate in Major Engineering Conferences

This summer, students from the Albert Nerken School of Engineering had the opportunity to attend the ASTM Exo Games, the 2024 Bridges Conference, and FSAE Michigan.

In Memoriam: Professor Constantine Yapijakis

The Cooper community mourns the passing of Constantine Yapijakis, a beloved professor of environmental engineering in the Civil Engineering Department who taught at the institution since 1986.

Meet the Deans: Adriana Farmiga and Yuri Masnyj

Faculty Collaboration Explores Algorithms in Creative Practice

A new article by professors Benjamin Aranda and Sam Keene presents a teaching model for exploring creative practice through generative algorithms.

Brooklyn Museum Features Cooper Alumni

Robert Topper and Andrew Kim Receive Grant for Next-Gen Battery Research

Andrew Kim, a dual-degree chemical engineering student, and Professor Robert Topper crafted and submitted a proposal to the ACCESS program, successfully securing an initial allocation known as an "Explore Project."

New Appointments in the School of Architecture

Cooper Union Team Takes Second Place at Pfizer’s First Digital Hackathon

Engineering students Lizelle Ocfemia EE’25, Lei Chi EE’25, Aaryan Mahipal ME’25, Lamiah Khan EE’26 and Jaehyeon Park ME’26 earned second place at Pfizer’s inaugural Digital Hackathon, competing against teams from Yale, Cornell, and Princeton.

Programmed for Cooper

The Albert Nerken School of Engineering launches a new computer science degree program custom-tailored to The Cooper Union learning experience.

Coco Fusco Video Debuts in Union Square

Coco Fusco's Everyone Who Lives Here is a New Yorker, a video that engages public perception of migrants in New York City, will be featured on select LinkNYC screens leading up to this year's presidential election.

Meet Emily Palmer, Visiting Professor, Physics

Joining the Albert Nerken School of Engineering this fall is Emily Palmer, a visiting professor in the Department of Physics.

Cooper Makes Tuition Free for All Seniors

All seniors to be tuition free through the 2027-28 academic year, accelerating Cooper's Plan to Restore Full-Tuition Scholarships.
 

The Architecture Summer Program: An Update

Incoming 2024

Get to know a few of this year's newest Cooper students.

Prof. Sam Keene to Lead New Computer Science Department

Professor Keene will serve as the first chair of Cooper's new computer science program. We asked him to weigh in on his plans for the department. 

Writing Associate Liza St. James Receives NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship

She is one of 15 recipients for fiction

Cooper–Wegmans Collab to Fight Hunger

The supermarket chain Wegmans is teaming up with the School of Art to help combat food insecurity in the Cooper community.

Meet Abhishek Sharma, Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering

Assistant Professor Ja-Beom Koo Presents Research at NORDTECH

Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, Ja-beom Koo, recently participated in the NORDTECH Workforce Development Summit held in Troy, NY. At the summit, he presented his research titled “Developing Microelectronics and VLSI Field Education for the Potential Workforce,” which was published in the 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition. 

Yuri Masnyj Named Asst Dean of School of Art

Katie Merz A'84 Draws Instant Mural for WNYC

Merz created the mural as part of WNYC’s centennial celebrations

IGVC Team’s Design Receives Innovation Award at The Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition

The Cooper Union Albert Nerken School of Engineering’s IGVC team was honored with the Innovation Award at the annual Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition (IGVC) for their groundbreaking Brake-by-Cable design 

Queer Geometries

Antiprisms: Stories of Transformation, a solo exhibition of work by Uyen Nguyen ME’14, explores queer identity and community through the intersection of mathematics, origami, and fashion.

New Forte Construction Corp. Scholarship Created

The scholarship, established by Forte President and Cooper alumnus Larry Pappas, will fund the education of an engineering student interested in construction and/or construction management

Adriana Farmiga Named Dean of Cooper Union School of Art

School of Art Alumna Emilie Louise Gossiaux Receives the 2024 Ida Applebroog Grant

The biennial juried award recognizes an under-recognized artist 

Assistant Professor Abigail Raz Co-Authors Paper Published in Discrete Applied Mathematics

End of Year Message from Acting Dean Eber

Assistant Professor Cynthia Lee Co-Authors Paper Featured in Sustainable And Resilient Infrastructure

Engineering Students Competed in the 4th Annual VFS Design-Build-Vertical Flight Competition

Mechanical engineering seniors Benjamin Meiner, Ariel Tamayev, Calder Leppitsch, and Levi Sheridan participated in the competition held in Churchville, Maryland 

Associate Professor Stanislav Mintchev Co-Published In Mathematical Modelling Of Natural Phenomena

Associate Professor of Mathematics Stanislav Mintchev has co-published in Mathematical Modelling of Natural Phenomena (Vol. 19, 2024). The paper delves into the topic of “Emergent properties in a V1-inspired network of Hodgkin–Huxley neurons.”

Cooper Students Compete in the 2024 AIAA Design/Build/Fly Competition

Cooper engineering students and their faculty advisor, Dirk M. Luchtenburg, professor of mechanical engineering, competed in the 2024 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Design/Build/Fly competition hosted by Textron Aviation in Wichita, Kansas

Cooper’s Solar Decathlon Team at the 22nd Solar Decathlon Design Challenge Final Competition

Engineering students Larry Zheng CE’26, Amelia Roopnarine ME’25, Lawrence Zeng CE’26, Mizanul Hoque ME’, and Vito Di Gregorio CE’26, alongside architecture students Abraham (Bram) Cherner ARCH’26, Kyle Ku ARCH’26, and Miao (Miles) Xue ARCH’26, showcased their project at the 2024 Solar Decathlon Design Challenge Final Competition held at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado. 

Hiu Chen CE’24 Awarded 2023-24 Geo Institute Chapter Graduate Scholarship

Recent graduate and incoming civil engineering master student Hiu Chen has been awarded the 2023-24 Geo Institute Chapter Graduate Scholarship from the ASCE Metropolitan Section Chapter of the Geo-Institute.

Class of 2024: In Their Own Words

Each spring, we celebrate the conclusion of the academic year by asking graduating students to share highlights from their time at Cooper and their plans for the future.

Professor Atina Grossmann is the 2024 Moses Mendelssohn Awardee

Atina Grossmann, professor of history, received the 2024 Moses Mendelssohn Award earlier this winter

Meet the New Saturday Program Staff

We spoke with José Ortiz, the new director of The Cooper Union Saturday Program, and Ciana Malchione A'21, who was recently promoted to assistant director.

Cooper Students Construct Ban’s Paper Log House

Shigeru Ban’s Paper Log House is on view in North America for the first time in six years thanks to the efforts of a set of Cooper architecture students

Kevin Slavin: Entrepreneur, Artist, and Alumnus to Give 2024 Commencement Address

His work spans the intersections between science, technology, and culture

Students Named Finalists in NY Business Plan Competition

Engineering students George Kwiecinski and Zephaniah Odidika impressed judges at the regional level with their pitch for a pharmaceutical-focused startup.

Meet New STEM Outreach Director, Yvonne Thevenot

The Cooper Union welcomes Yvonne Thevenot as the new director of STEM Outreach, which offers a host of educational programs to New York City high school students.

Students Awarded Scholarships from Multiple Engineering Organizations

Seven civil engineering students were awarded scholarships from three New York City metro civil engineering organizations

Introducing our Newest Staff Members

Blair Ribeiro, Lizbeth Soto, and Jake Zweiback have joined Albert Nerken School of Engineering Dean’s Office

Mechanical Engineering Seniors Place Third in CREATE

The group received a $5,000 award

$4 Million Bequest to Keep Innovation Alive

Film Screening and Exhibition about Celebrated Painter Tom Nozkowski A'67

The documentary was made by another Cooper alumnus, Gabriel Rodriguez-Fuller

Assistant Professor of Art Fia Backström Receives the Borlem Prize

Junior Ubaidullah Hassan ChE'25 Named a Goldwater Scholar

Hassan is one of 438 students to receive the honor for the 2024-2025 academic year from an estimated pool of over 5,000 college sophomores and juniors

Professor Jennifer Weiser Receives Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award for 2024-2025

 Dr. Jennifer Weiser, an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award in Biomedical Sciences to Austria for the 2024-2025 academic year from the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.

Mokena Makeka Named President of SAIA

Makeka sees his new post with the South African Institute of Architects as an opportunity for Cooper to collaborate with architects abroad.

Cooper Solar Decathlon Team's Sure We Can Design Secures Finalist Position

Over the weekend, The Cooper Union Solar Decathlon team delivered a virtual presentation to a panel of jurors at the 2024 Solar Decathlon Design Challenge Semifinal and secured a place as a finalist under the Multifamily Building Division

New Endowed Professorship to Encourage Cross-Discipline Innovation

The John and Mary Manuck Distinguished Professor of Design professorship aims to raise the visibility of design as a unifying element and will rotate among Cooper’s three schools

Generous Gift to School of Art from Harold Altman A'47

The celebrated artist credited Cooper with giving him a chance to excel

Cooper Union Engineering Students Participate in 10th Virtual Winter School on Computational Chemistry

Several Cooper Union engineering students participated in the 10th Virtual Winter School on Computational Chemistry to learn how computational quantum mechanics is used to study the structures, reactions, and applications of chemical compounds, biomolecules, and materials

Andrew Kim ChE’25 Awarded the 2023 MENY Scholarship

Junior chemical engineering student, Andrew Kim, was awarded the 2023 Municipal Engineers of the City of New York (MENY) scholarship award.

Art and Architecture Faculty Participate in the Whitney Biennial 2024

The 2024 Whitney Biennial features current adjunct faculty members from both the School of Art and The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture.

Brian Swann's Latest Book Chronicles Life During COVID

The latest book by Brian Swann, professor emeritus of humanities, is titled Ya-Honk! Goes the Wild Gander or, Covid Divagations.

Reflections on a Challenging Semester

Professor Pisani Awarded $1.4 million grant

Assistant Professor Alice Pisani has been awarded $1.4 million through the COSMOBEST European Grant for Research to support her study of cosmic voids.

2023 AIChE Annual Student Conference: Chemical Engineering Students Win Top Awards

Last month, chemical engineering students and faculty attended the 2023 AIChE Annual Student Conference in Orlando, Florida. AIChE stands as the foremost global organization for chemical engineering professionals, boasting over 60,000 members from 110 countries.