Professor Brian Swann Authors New Transatlantic Novel

Prof. Jennifer Weiser and Collaborators from Mount Sinai Presented at the 2021 Virtual ASEE Conference

Cooper Union and Mount Sinai Collab on Recent Publication in Advanced Healthcare Materials

Artist and Cooper Union Alumnus Daniel Arsham Named 2021 Robert Gwathmey Chair

2021 Summer Study Abroad: Guatemala, Iceland, Spain, and Singapore

Cooper Union Hyperloop Team Participated at the 2021 European Hyperloop Week in Valencia, Spain

Cooper Union Motorsports New Leadership and 2021 Formula SAE Michigan Competition

Center for Career Development Reinstates Engineering Alumni-Student Career Mentoring Program

Senior Art Shows Include Work by 2020 Graduates

This year's Senior Shows will give space to those who missed the change to exhibit their work during 2020

Sometimes A Salty Nanoparticle Is Only “Sort Of” Salty… And Sometimes Engineers Are Interested in Theoretical Chemistry

Professor of Chemistry, Robert Q. Topper, presents research talk at the Fall 2021 American Chemical Society Meeting and announces new program TransRot developed during the pandemic with his eldest son, Steven Topper.

Assistant Professor, Michelle Rosen, Co-Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

ESC Ad-Chairs Introductions

Incoming 2021

Each year we like to introduce a few of the incoming students. Hailing from Seoul to Harlem, this year's group includes Jungeun (Alice) Lee, Sarah Magbunduku, Darius Fantozzi, and Alari Billig.

STEM Outreach Director Elizabeth Waters Co-Published in the 2021 OJSS

New Students Snag AACE-Made Swag

Jeannette Circe, mechanical engineering senior and new president of Cooper's chapter of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers gave out more than 70 souvenirs she'd created in the AACE lab during the MechE orientation event

Professor Loujaina Abdelwahed Receives Research Grant for Measuring Inequality in Real Time

Vkhutemas Exhibition Receives Grant Awards

Typographics Goes Global in 2021

School of Architecture Awarded IMLS Grant

Aziza Almanakly EE’20 Selected to Receive Clare Boothe Luce Graduate Fellowship for Women

Binding Agents: Student Mentors and EID101

A first-year engineering design course was reimagined to help remote learners find their footing

Assistant Professor, Amanda Simson and Dave D. Chun ChE’21 Published in the Waste And Biomass Valorization Journal

Inaugural Latinx Artist Fellowship Awarded to Faculty and Alumnus

Professor Fusco is among 15 artists to receive this first-of-its-kind fellowship

Chair of Physics & Professor Philip Yecko Co-Authors Paper in the Journal of Computer Physics Communication

Heads and Tales 2021 Debuts Online

A five-week-long Summer class taught through the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences demonstrates the power of interdisciplinary collaboration

Mary Vavruska CE’22 Awarded Two Scholarships

How to Be an Artist of the Met

Jessie Salinas, a rising School of Art junior, has found a generous way to make anyone fit into that rarefied cohort

A Message from the Dean | 2021 End of Year Show

Impact of Cooper: Interview with Richard “Dick” Schwartz ME’57

Continue building a lifelong relationship with Cooper. Stay connected. Share what you are working on with other alumni and current students. Give back in various ways as repayment for how The Cooper Union experience has influenced your lives.

The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture Goes to Venice

Work by students and faculty of The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture is on view at the 2021 Venice Biennale

2021 Distinguished Professor in Bioengineering and C.V. Starr Distinguished Professor of Engineering

Alumni Spotlight: Mark A. Vasquez ME’88

"Engineering requires creativity. Embrace that. Keep your imagination flowing. Try new things. Think about the broader impacts. Look at the bigger picture. Help paint that bigger picture." - Mark A. Vasquez ME'88

Senior Snapshots: Engineering 2021

In our final installment of the 2021 Senior Snapshots, we meet Bibi Razak, Michael Chan, Miho Takeuchi, Sam Maltz, and Hyomin (Flora) Seo from the Albert Nerken School of Engineering.

A More Perfect Union

Symposium Addresses Intersection of Healthcare and Engineering

The symposium highlighted seven projects undertaken by Cooper engineers that focus on biomedical research

Senior Snapshots: School of Art 2021

Despite myriad challenges and disruptions, this year’s highlighted seniors from the School of Art—Vyczie Dorado-Lopez, Kian McKeown, and Sydney Vernon—found that quarantine had one serious advantage

School of Architecture: Thesis Year Snapshots 2021

In this first of our annual Senior Snapshots series we meet Brandy Vazquez, Juan Carlos Javier and Taesha Aurora, three thesis-year students at The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture

Meet our New Joint Physics Faculty

The Physics Department at the Albert Nerken School of Engineering and the Center for Computational Astrophysics (CCA) of the Simons Foundation’s Flatiron Institute has hired a joint Physics Tenure-Track Faculty.

Cooper Alumni and Faculty Awarded Rome Prize

Alumni Spotlight: Smriti Gupta EE’02

"Cooper Union gave me confidence, support, and a sense of belonging. These are some of the things that play a big role in one's life." - Smriti Gupta EE'02

4 Questions for Malcolm King EE’97

Meet Cooper’s newly-elected chair of the Board of Trustees.

Engineers in Education

Albert Nerken School of Engineering alumni discuss the experiences that taught them how to teach others

One Lab for All

The Cooper Union opens a new interdisciplinary maker space with $2M from the IDC Foundation.

Filling in the Gaps

Carmi Bee AR’67 approaches housing at a neighborhood scale.

Visions of Home

Dannielle Bowman A’11 awarded the 2020 Aperture Portfolio Prize.

Reframing for Action

New lecture series addresses multifaceted injustice

Electrical Engineering Alumna Awarded Soros Fellowship

Aziza Almanakly EE'20, has been awarded a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, a highly prestigious prize for immigrants and first-generation Americans pursuing graduate studies.

Adjunct Professor Jill Magid Named Guggenheim Fellow

Additionally, two School of Art alumnae received fellowships: Amy Addler A'89 and Josephine Halvorson A’03

Dean Tehrani Elected to American Academy of Arts and Letters

Membership in the Academy is limited to 300 architects, visual artists, composers, and writers who are elected for life and pay no dues

Saturday Program Welcomes New Director, Jamerry Kim

Alumni Spotlight: Nina Tandon EE’01

Preparing Students for a Data-Driven World

Meet Our New Faculty Members

Teaching the First-Year, Hands-On Engineering Design Experience Online

Women’s History Month: Interview with Ebele Kemery EE’07

Meet Our Engineering Student Council

Junior Alexa Jakob EE'22 Named a Goldwater Scholar

Junior Alexa Jakob receives preeminent undergraduate award for engineering, mathematics, or the natural sciences research

2021 Women's History Month Alumnae Panel Discussion

To celebrate Women’s History Month, the Albert Nerken School of Engineering Dean’s office and the Cooper Union chapter of the Society of Women Engineers have invited a distinguished panel of engineering graduates to share their experience as women students at Cooper with current students.

Art Grad Launches Magazine as Antidote to Covid Blues

How Dayi Novas A'20 created "OUCH! A happy magazine for everyone"

The American Academy of Arts and Letters Honors School of Art Professors

Three School of Art professors receive American Academy of Arts and Letters awards

Meet Our New Makerspace Coordinator

Anna Joselle Lomboy ChE'18 MChE'20 and Professor Robert Q. Topper Publish Paper on Proton Transfer and Hydrogen Bonds Within Aerosol Nanoparticles

Harper's Bazaar Features Alumnae

The March 2021 issue of Harper’s BAZAAR includes interviews with alumnae Leslie Hewitt A'00 and Firelei Báez A'04

Senior Yuval Philipson ME'21 Wins First Place in the Physical Acoustics Technical Committee Student Paper Competition

Engineering Students competed in annual, regional ACM Programming Contest

Hummingbird Takes Flight: Mural by Cooper Student Makes the News

2021 Founder's Day Alumni Awardees

Remembering Barry Lewis

Spotlight: Newly Elected Board of Trustee Chair, Malcolm King EE’97

Year-in-Review: 2020 Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Town Halls

Cooper Union Announces 0% Increase for 2021-22 Undergraduate Tuition & Fees

For the third consecutive year, The Cooper Union is pleased to announce that there will be no increase in undergraduate tuition for the upcoming academic year (2021-22)

Meet Exchange Student, Hjalti Nielsen ChE'21

Harry Wei ME’21 and Vincent Bianco ME’18 Publish Research in the Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials

Kevin Yao ME’18 ME’20 Presented Research at the 2020 ASP Division of Fluid Dynamics Conference

High-Tech Maker Space Opens at The Cooper Union with $2M from IDC Foundation

The IDC Foundation Art, Architecture, Construction, and Engineering (AACE) Lab is a new state-of-the-art maker space that supports projects across Cooper's three disciplines

Despite COVID, 2019–20 Grants Proved Valuable to Cooper Community

Joint Physics Tenure-Track Faculty Position with the CCA of the Simons Foundation’s Flatiron Institute

Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Developing Economies Panel

December 8, 2020

Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2020

New Published Research by Professor Amanda Simson

Professor Amanda Simson recently co-authored papers in two leading journals on energy research

Albert Nerken School of Engineering Receives $1.6M Grant for Bioengineering

Cult Following

Chemical Engineering Faculty and Students Present Research at AIChE

Faculty and students present research at an annual meeting of the world's leading organization for chemical engineering professionals

It's in the Syllabus

William Germano and Kit Nicholls have co-authored a new book about the key document that defines a course

New York Times Features Amy Sillman, the Fall 2020 Katz Chair in Painting

Unpacking the CU@Home Engineering Kits

Adapting to the times when every course at the Albert Nerken School of Engineering is taught online, faculty, students, staff, and alumni worked together to develop packages of materials for several project-based courses

Prof. Melody Baglione Keynote Speaker for Upcoming UC Davis Global Energy Managers Workshop