All News 2021
2021
- December 20
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First-year Engineering Students Showcase Final Projects
First-year Albert Nerken School of Engineering students showcased their final EID101 projects
- December 13
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Meet Engineering's Newest Faculty Members
Seven full-time faculty join the Albert Nerken School of Engineering
- December 13
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Designs for Living
- December 13
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Hitting a Stride
The Albert Nerken School of Engineering looks to the future of engineering education
- December 10
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Never Far From Present
Kenneth Tam A'04 at the Queens Museum
- December 09
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Concrete and Light
Lucy Raven, associate professor of art, is exhibiting new work at Dia Chelsea through December 30
- December 08
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A Message from the Dean
- December 07
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Assistant Professor, Ja-beom Koo, Co-Published in the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters
Assistant professor of electrical engineering, Ja-beom Koo, has co-authored in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Solid-State Circuits Letters (Vol. 4, Oct. 2021 Issue) with collaborators from IEEE.
- December 06
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2021 Educational Innovation Grant Program
In the fall semester of 2019, Dean Barry Shoop initiated the first Educational Innovation Grant Program for faculty, students, and staff. The purpose of the grant program was to advance one or more of the approved Core Values or Strategic Goals of the Albert Nerken School of Engineering 2025 Strategic Plan, Sustaining a Legacy of Innovation.
- December 03
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Mechanical Engineering Students Presented at ASME’s 2021 Virtual IMECE
Andrew Kim ME’23, Christopher Mignano ME’21 ME’22, and Jaywon Woo ME’21 presented research at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers’ 2021 Virtual International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition
- December 03
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Chemical Engineering Students Receive Awards and Faculty Present at the 2021 AIChE Annual Meeting and Student Conference
In early November, chemical engineering students, faculty, and alumni attended the 2021 AIChE Annual Meeting and Student Conference in Boston, Massachusetts.
- December 03
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Cooper Engineering Students Attend 10th Naval Academy Science and Engineering Conference
Last month, engineering students Anna Konvicka EE’23, Pauline Phan ChE’23, and Jared J. ME’22 attended the 10th Naval Academy Science and Engineering Conference (NASEC) at the United States Naval Academy (USNA) in Annapolis, Maryland.
- December 02
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Donor Spotlight: Vic DiFranco
In 2018 Mr. DiFranco committed to a $100,000 annual donation in support of a new endowment, The Victor and Eleanor DiFranco Fund. The endowment provides incredible opportunities for students to enrich their studies...
- November 19
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Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2021
Last year, Dean Barry Shoop was selected as one of 25 International experts to the 2020 World Economic Forum (WEF) Meta-Council on Emerging Technologies.
- November 09
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NVIDIA has Granted The Cooper Union Six Jetson Nano 2GB Developer Kits
- November 09
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Professor Coco Fusco Receives 2021 Anonymous Was A Woman Award
- November 02
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Three-Way Non-Disclosure Agreement Between The Cooper Union, TSMC, and MUSE Semiconductor LLC on Integrated Circuits
The agreement was spearheaded by Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, Ja-beom Koo, and will include TSMC’s Process Design Kit (PDK) libraries for both Analog/Radio Frequency and Digital components.
- November 02
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Three Questions with Raffaele Bedarida
Raffaele Bedarida, associate professor of art history, talks about his work and the direction of the art history curriculum at Cooper
- November 01
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Shirley Yan CE'23 Selected to Receive the MENY Scholarship Award in the Name of Ms. Claire Horodniceanu
- October 27
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New Collaboration Between HSS and School of Art
- October 22
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Drawing a Riff
Katie Merz, an adjunct professor, gave students a prompt to make a piece that trumpet player Antoine Drye can play
- October 12
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1979 Architecture Graduate T.J. Gottesdiener to Lecture in the Great Hall
- September 17
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Professor Brian Swann Authors New Transatlantic Novel
- September 16
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Prof. Jennifer Weiser and Collaborators from Mount Sinai Presented at the 2021 Virtual ASEE Conference
- September 15
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Cooper Union and Mount Sinai Collab on Recent Publication in Advanced Healthcare Materials
- September 15
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Artist and Cooper Union Alumnus Daniel Arsham Named 2021 Robert Gwathmey Chair
- September 15
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2021 Summer Study Abroad: Guatemala, Iceland, Spain, and Singapore
- September 15
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Cooper Union Hyperloop Team Participated at the 2021 European Hyperloop Week in Valencia, Spain
- September 14
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Cooper Union Motorsports New Leadership and 2021 Formula SAE Michigan Competition
- September 13
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Center for Career Development Reinstates Engineering Alumni-Student Career Mentoring Program
- September 10
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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
- September 09
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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.
- September 07
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Assistant Professor, Michelle Rosen, Co-Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- September 07
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ESC Ad-Chairs Introductions
- September 02
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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.
- September 02
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STEM Outreach Director Elizabeth Waters Co-Published in the 2021 OJSS
- August 31
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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
- August 31
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Professor Loujaina Abdelwahed Receives Research Grant for Measuring Inequality in Real Time
- August 26
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Vkhutemas Exhibition Receives Grant Awards
- August 09
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Typographics Goes Global in 2021
- August 05
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School of Architecture Awarded IMLS Grant
- August 02
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Aziza Almanakly EE’20 Selected to Receive Clare Boothe Luce Graduate Fellowship for Women
- July 29
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Binding Agents: Student Mentors and EID101
A first-year engineering design course was reimagined to help remote learners find their footing
- July 26
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Assistant Professor, Amanda Simson and Dave D. Chun ChE’21 Published in the Waste And Biomass Valorization Journal
- July 12
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Inaugural Latinx Artist Fellowship Awarded to Faculty and Alumnus
Professor Fusco is among 15 artists to receive this first-of-its-kind fellowship
- July 07
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Chair of Physics & Professor Philip Yecko Co-Authors Paper in the Journal of Computer Physics Communication
- July 06
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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
- June 21
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Mary Vavruska CE’22 Awarded Two Scholarships
- June 15
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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
- June 09
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A Message from the Dean | 2021 End of Year Show
- June 09
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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.
- June 09
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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
- June 08
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2021 Distinguished Professor in Bioengineering and C.V. Starr Distinguished Professor of Engineering
- May 24
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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
- May 21
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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.
- May 19
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A More Perfect Union
- May 17
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Symposium Addresses Intersection of Healthcare and Engineering
The symposium highlighted seven projects undertaken by Cooper engineers that focus on biomedical research
- May 16
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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
- May 10
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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
- April 30
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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.
- April 26
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Cooper Alumni and Faculty Awarded Rome Prize
- April 23
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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
- April 16
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4 Questions for Malcolm King EE’97
Meet Cooper’s newly-elected chair of the Board of Trustees.
- April 16
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Engineers in Education
Albert Nerken School of Engineering alumni discuss the experiences that taught them how to teach others
- April 16
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One Lab for All
The Cooper Union opens a new interdisciplinary maker space with $2M from the IDC Foundation.
- April 16
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Filling in the Gaps
Carmi Bee AR’67 approaches housing at a neighborhood scale.
- April 16
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Visions of Home
Dannielle Bowman A’11 awarded the 2020 Aperture Portfolio Prize.
- April 14
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Reframing for Action
New lecture series addresses multifaceted injustice
- April 14
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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.
- April 09
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Adjunct Professor Jill Magid Named Guggenheim Fellow
Additionally, two School of Art alumnae received fellowships: Amy Addler A'89 and Josephine Halvorson A’03
- April 08
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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
- April 07
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Saturday Program Welcomes New Director, Jamerry Kim
- April 05
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Alumni Spotlight: Nina Tandon EE’01
- April 05
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Preparing Students for a Data-Driven World
- March 30
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Meet Our New Faculty Members
- March 30
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Teaching the First-Year, Hands-On Engineering Design Experience Online
- March 28
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Women’s History Month: Interview with Ebele Kemery EE’07
- March 26
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Meet Our Engineering Student Council
- March 26
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Junior Alexa Jakob EE'22 Named a Goldwater Scholar
Junior Alexa Jakob receives preeminent undergraduate award for engineering, mathematics, or the natural sciences research
- March 26
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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.
- March 24
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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
- March 23
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Meet Our New Makerspace Coordinator
- March 18
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Anna Joselle Lomboy ChE'18 MChE'20 and Professor Robert Q. Topper Publish Paper on Proton Transfer and Hydrogen Bonds Within Aerosol Nanoparticles
- March 12
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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
- March 10
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Senior Yuval Philipson ME'21 Wins First Place in the Physical Acoustics Technical Committee Student Paper Competition
- March 07
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Engineering Students competed in annual, regional ACM Programming Contest
- March 01
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Hummingbird Takes Flight: Mural by Cooper Student Makes the News
- February 10
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2021 Founder's Day Alumni Awardees
- February 03
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Remembering Barry Lewis
- January 26
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Spotlight: Newly Elected Board of Trustee Chair, Malcolm King EE’97
- January 13
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Year-in-Review: 2020 Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Town Halls
- January 11
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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)
- January 11
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Meet Exchange Student, Hjalti Nielsen ChE'21