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Adriana Farmiga Named MacDowell Fellow

Adriana Farmiga, assistant dean and adjunct professor in the School of Art, was awarded a 2018 MacDowell Summer Fellowship

Senior Snapshots 2018: Engineering

In the third and final installment of our annual series we catch up with seven graduating seniors and one graduated "senior" from the Albert Nerken School of Engineering. Some seniors have been working together on various teams for some time, so we decided to pair them

Civil Engineering Juniors Win Scholarships

Civil Engineering students William Yang CE'19, Mohammed Hossain CE'19, and April Mintz CE'19 are scholarship recipients.

Cooper Union Awarded $2 Million Grant from IDC Foundation

Senior Snapshots 2018: School of Art

Three aspiring artists, all women, each originally from a different Caribbean island, arriving in the U.S. at different ages, all ended up at the School of Art as freshmen in 2014. Four years later Paloma Izquierdo, Naomi Lisiki, and Taya Serrao are also graduating together

Professor Lepek Presents at the 8th World Congress on Particle Technology

Mechanical Engineering Junior Awarded STEM Grant for Women

Thesis Year Snapshots 2018: Architecture

This first installment of our annual senior snapshots focuses on graduates of The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture. We talked to Yaoyi Fan, Rick Farin, and Athena Unroe about their undergraduate years, their thesis projects, and what they now believe architecture can do

Dr. Barry L. Shoop Named New Engineering Dean

A message from President Laura Sparks about the appointment

Lucy Raven Receives Berlin Prize

The assistant professor in the School of Art has been selected for the fellowship of scholars, artists, and writers from the U.S. who "represent the highest standards of excellence in their fields"

Chem-E-Car Keeps on Chugging

The Chem-E-Car team of the Albert Nerken School of Engineering are going to national Chem-E-Car Competition again this year after placing second in the regionals on April 8th

Postdocs Around the World

The role of postdoctorate fellows continues to expand in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, supporting a more globalized curriculum

“Baneful Medicine” Exhibition Questions the Ethics of Medical Research

A walk through the exhibition with curator Andrew Weinstein

Three Civ-E Juniors Take Home Four Industry Scholarships

Civil engineering juniors Mohammed Hossain, April Mintz, and William Yang have each received scholarships from local chapters of engineering organizations

Philosopher Martha Nussbaum is 2018 Commencement Speaker

Professor Mintchev gives invited PI Mu Epsilon talk at GWU

Professor Dennis Adams Named Guggenheim Fellow

School of Art Professor Dennis Adams selected as 2018 Guggenheim Fellow

Snarkitecture to Design Installation for the National Building Museum

100 Days of Herb Lubalin

The Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography launches Lubalin100.com to commemorate the designer's 100th birthday

Cooper Students Take Top Two Prizes at IEEE Conference

One paper focuses on applying AI to the hardware commonly found in smartphones and the other imagines a way for two users of VR headsets to interact directly

Cooper Union ASCE chapter receives 2018 Certificate of Commendation

Prof. Kwong Co-Authors Two Conference Papers

Professor Kwong Co-Authors Paper To Be Published in Earthquake Spectra Journal

Alumna Jean Brownhill Featured on Today Show

Jean Brownhill AR’00 talks with the Today Show’s Savannah Guthrie on how she built Sweeten

Cooper Faculty and Alumni on AN Top 50 List

Eva Franch i Gilabert Appointed Director of Architectural Association

Philosopher, Astronomer, Filmmaker, Sailor ... Novelist

Diego Malquori, assistant professor of philosophy in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences publishes his book of fiction

Learn How to Destroy the Internet

Erin Sparling teaches Cooper Students how to do it

Skylar Eiskowitz ME'19 Receives Brooke Owens Fellowship

Junior mechanical engineering student Skylar Eiskowitz is selected for the 2018 Brooke Owens Fellowship Program

Beloved Director of Buildings and Grounds Decides to Retire

Cooper Family Papers Exhibition

In Memoriam: Jack Whitten, Renowned Artist and Teacher

Real World Pedagogy: Building in Shenzhen, China

Two students, Margaux Wheelock-Shew and Jeremy Son, collaborate with Nader Tehrani to create a permanent pavilion in Shenzhen, China

Azin Valy AR'90 Featured on NYCTV

Cooper Union in Top Five 2018 "Colleges That Pay You Back"

Subtitled "The 200 Schools That Give You the Best Bang for Your Tuition Buck," the annual list is compiled by The Princeton Review

New Full-Time Faculty Bolster the Ranks

Following last year’s remarkable influx of seven new full-time, tenure-track faculty members across three academic branches, the reinvestment in teaching resources at The Cooper Union continues

A Talk with Antoinette “Toni” Torres

She's Director of Strategic Initiatives and Institutional Effectiveness, but “Institutional Life Coach” would be shorter and maybe more to the point

General John W. “Jay” Raymond Visits Cooper Union

The Commander of the Air Force Space Command addressed a capacity crowd

Cooper in Space

In spite of not having an aeronautics or rocket design program Cooper Union graduates have played important roles in designing, building, and launching the rockets and satellites

Girl Powered

A tour of the 33,000-square-foot Lower East Side Girls Club with founder Lyn Pentecost A'70

Sophomores Win MedTech Grand Prize

Their invention Safe Step, a device to aid those with peripheral neuropathy, wins $10k

Professor Simson Co-Authors WIRED.com Article

Professor Amanda Simson co-authors article on WIRED.com.

A talk with Artists Emmy Mikelson and Charlotte Becket

The artist's multimedia work entitled "Displaced Plan," creates an immersive environment of sound and color that blurs the line between physical and digital space

Cooper Wins Major Grant from NY State for Green Building Initiatives

"Midground 19" in 41 Cooper Square Gallery

Cooper Students and Faculty at the APS Fluids conference

Cooper Union students and faculty presented posters and gave talks at the APS Fluids Conference 2017.

Professor Linda Pollak Exhibits Her "Atlas of (In)Visible Spaces"

The adjunct professor and highly accomplished architect has made her street in Tribeca the subject of a photographic practice that takes the notion of “street photography” to microscopic depths

Peter Zhao ChE '20 presents at 2017 Pan-American Nanotechnology Conference

Cooper Students Compete in 2017 ACM Programming Contest

Three teams consisting of EE and BSE majors participate in the 2017 ACM Programming Contest

Look Closer

We tag along with Annika Finne, adjunct instructor in HSS, to the Met museum where her class, "Reading Surfaces: Painting Techniques Over Time," hits a sweet spot of artistic processes with art history and the practice of close observation

Cooper Union at the 2017 Chemical Engineering Conference

The 2017 American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Annual Meeting, held in Minneapolis, Minnesota this year from October 29 through November 3, had strong representation by both students and faculty members of the Albert Nerken School of Engineering

New Funding for Architecture Archive Database Project

Grants from the Leon Levy Foundation and Graham Foundation provided a major boost to the project to digitize, catalog and exhibit the Architecture Archive’s Student Work Collection

Maria Thereza Alves A'85 Uses Art to Address Ongoing Colonialism

We chatted with the artist, who will deliver a free, public lecture in the Great Hall on November 7, about her work

William Villalongo's Solo Exhibition Opens in Chelsea Gallery

The Assistant Professor and 1999 School of Art graduate's collection of figurative works is titled, "Keep on Pushing"

Multiple Healthcare-Focused Student Works Win Prizes

Seniors Giovanni Sanchez and Ruchi Patel, and junior Simon Shao all took home cash awards for innovative solutions in one weekend

Studio Libeskind Designs Canada’s First National Monument Dedicated to the Holocaust

2017 Profile of First-Year Students

Prof. Luchtenburg Chairs Session and Graduate Student David Shekhtman Presents Research at ASME DSCC 2017 Conference

Prof. Luchtenburg, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, chairs a session at the ASME 2017 Dynamic Systems and Control Conference (DSCC) held in Tysons, VA, on October 11, 2017, where his graduate student, David Shekhtman, will present his research.

Now You See It...

William Germano, professor and author of the recent book Eye Chart, reflects on an object that started as a diagnostic tool but became cultural meme

$100K Innovation Prize Awarded to Former Invention Factory Winner

TrioCup, a to-go coffee cup with an origami-style no-spill lid first developed by two Cooper Union students in the 2015 Invention Factory has won $100,000 as part of the New Plastics Economy Innovation Prize

Tyme Kiosk by Situ Studio Pops Up in Times Square

Adriana Farmiga Named Assistant Dean

Adriana Farmiga A’96,who has taught at the School of Art since 2011, has been appointed Assistant Dean at the school. Also: an interview about her latest work

Prof. Dell Presents Paper at 2017 GRC Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah

Professor Robert Dell presented a paper about a 3G security camera network using a thermoelectric generator fueled by a geothermal steam pipe.

School of Architecture Students and Faculty Participate in IdeasCity 2017

Led by Assistant Professor Lorena Del Rio, groups of student volunteers fabricated segments of a design for a stepped seating environment that, when fully assembled, is circular in plan

Week One: Jenna Scott CE'21

We followed the freshman civil engineering student through her first week classes at the Albert Nerken School of Engineering to better understand what one might encounter

Prof. Topper Co-Authors Publication on Machine Learning in Chemistry

Professor Topper, working with a team of researchers led by NYU Professor Mark Tuckerman, has contributed to a paper in the Physical Review Letters journal.

Professor Cataldo Co-Authors Journal Paper on Green Roof Thermal Buffering

Professor Cataldo Co-Authors Journal Paper on Green Roof Thermal Buffering.

Week One: Vyczie Dorado-Lopez A'21

We followed Vyczie through all of her classes in her first week at The School of Art to better understand what the experience is like

"Depero Futurista" Arrives

A rare 1927 art book by the Italian Futurist Fortunato Depero has been successfully reprinted in a near-perfect facsimile edition thanks to the efforts of HSS professor Raffael Bedarida

Week One: Ezekiel Binns AR'22

To better learn what it is like to start your life as a student of The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, we followed one around for one week, attending every class

Week One: Introduction

Our introduction to a web series that follows three arriving students, one from each school, through their first full week of classes

Incoming 2017: Part Three

The last part part of our annual series asks some of Cooper's newest students tell us where they came from, how they found Cooper Union, what they are looking forward to doing here and what they have been up to during the summer

Invention Factory 2017 Winners Announced

Sara Huang BSE’19 and Keti Vaso ChE’19 take home the $5000 first prize in the fifth annual student contest

Professor Billie Faircloth to Receive 2017 Women in Architecture Award

Incoming 2017: Part Two

The second of our three-part series where Cooper's newest students tell us where they came from, how they found Cooper Union, what they are looking forward to doing here and what they have been up to during the summer

Incoming 2017: Part One

Every year we ask some arriving students about where they came from, how they found Cooper Union, what they are looking forward to doing here and what they have been up to during the summer. Here is the first of three parts

Cooper Union Featured in Multiple 2017/18 "Best" Lists

The Princeton Review, U.S. News and Fiske all rate The Cooper Union high