Six M.Arch II Students Presenting at ASCA This Week

Six graduate architecture students from The Cooper Union will travel to Milwaukee to deliver papers at the annual conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture

Graduate Student Catherine Wolfe (CE'17, ME'19) Receives Thornton Tomasetti Foundation Fellowship

Grad Student, Catherine Wolfe (CE'17, ME'19), receives Thornton Tomasetti Foundation First Annual Technical Literacy Fellowship.

Leslie Hewitt Featured in Carnegie International 2018

Leslie Hewitt A'00, assistant professor in the School of Art, is one of the 32 artists and artist collectives featured in the Carnegie International, 57th Edition

Architect Magazine Awards Studio Prize to First Year Architectonics Studio

The work of the Fall 2017 Architectonics Studio has been awarded a 2018 Studio Prize from Architect magazine as one of, "the best examples of architectural investigation taking place in colleges and universities today"

Investigations into Color

Two adjunct professors, Sarah Lowengard and Christina Weyl, of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, have received prestigious fellowships during the 2018/19 academic year. Both will be examining the history of color, though in different fields

Three Questions for Dr. Barry Shoop

Barry L. Shoop’s appointment as the new dean of the Albert Nerken School of Engineering begins in January 2019. We asked him a few questions.

Shelter from the Storm: Cooper Architects in Puerto Rico

Coming Soon: AACE Lab

Lab will serve as a catalyst for integration across the institution, with equipment allowing projects that involve “making,” from 3-D printers to robotic arms to virtual-reality technologies

2018 Invention Factory Winner: Twist Talk

Brian Chung and Hannah Quirk took home the top prize for a portable communication aid for children on the autism spectrum

Cooper Tops 2018 "Best" Lists

The U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges, and other guides, put Cooper Union at the top of their lists for yet another year

Collaborating in New Spaces

Sam Keene, associate professor of electrical engineering, conceptualized and taught two cross-disciplinary courses in the spring 2018 semester, bringing architects, artists, and engineers into the same classroom with shared learning goals

Incoming 2018: Part Two

In this second half of our annual series on newly-arriving students, we meet Annabella Chen, Demauni Sankey, and Sara Yacoub. They answered questions about how they came to be interested in their field, what brought them to The Cooper Union and what they hope to do while they are here

Liz Diller and Peggy Deamer Receive 2018 Women in Architecture Award

Incoming 2018: Part One

In the first half of our annual series showcasing a few of the newest arrivals to The Cooper Union we meet Julia Buckley, Earl Kwofie, and Yeji Kim

Retraining Program for Immigrant Engineers Featured in Wall Street Journal

STEM Saturday Students Devise Alert for Bus Riders

High school STEM Saturday student participants explain their project to help improve bus transportation

Maurice Cox and Marc Norman In Conversation on the Future of Detroit

SEA2M3 Center is Finalist for Excellence in Innovation Award

The Cooper Union and its SEA²M³ (Sustainable Engineering, Architecture and Art - Materials, Manufacturing and Minimalism) Center led by Prof. Cumberbatch were selected as one of the finalists for the Phi Kappa Phi 2018 Excellence in Innovation Award.

Faculty Search

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

2018 Civil Engineering Juniors Receive Student 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"