All News 2021

2021

December 20

First-year Engineering Students Showcase Final Projects

First-year Albert Nerken School of Engineering students showcased their final EID101 projects

December 13

Meet Engineering's Newest Faculty Members

Seven full-time faculty join the Albert Nerken School of Engineering

December 13

Designs for Living

December 13

Hitting a Stride

The Albert Nerken School of Engineering looks to the future of engineering education

December 10

Never Far From Present

Kenneth Tam A'04 at the Queens Museum

December 09

Concrete and Light

Lucy Raven, associate professor of art, is exhibiting new work at Dia Chelsea through December 30

December 08

A Message from the Dean

December 07

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

NVIDIA has Granted The Cooper Union Six Jetson Nano 2GB Developer Kits

November 09

Professor Coco Fusco Receives 2021 Anonymous Was A Woman Award

November 02

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

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

Shirley Yan CE'23 Selected to Receive the MENY Scholarship Award in the Name of Ms. Claire Horodniceanu

October 27

New Collaboration Between HSS and School of Art

October 22

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

1979 Architecture Graduate T.J. Gottesdiener to Lecture in the Great Hall

September 17

Professor Brian Swann Authors New Transatlantic Novel

September 16

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

September 15

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

September 15

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

September 15

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

September 15

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

September 14

Cooper Union Motorsports New Leadership and 2021 Formula SAE Michigan Competition

September 13

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

September 10

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

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

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

September 07

ESC Ad-Chairs Introductions

September 02

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

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

August 31

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

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

August 26

Vkhutemas Exhibition Receives Grant Awards

August 09

Typographics Goes Global in 2021

August 05

School of Architecture Awarded IMLS Grant

August 02

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

July 29

Binding Agents: Student Mentors and EID101

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

July 26

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

July 12

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

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

July 06

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

Mary Vavruska CE’22 Awarded Two Scholarships

June 15

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

A Message from the Dean | 2021 End of Year Show

June 09

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

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

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

May 24

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

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

A More Perfect Union

May 17

Symposium Addresses Intersection of Healthcare and Engineering

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

May 16

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

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

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

Cooper Alumni and Faculty Awarded Rome Prize

April 23

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

4 Questions for Malcolm King EE’97

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

April 16

Engineers in Education

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

April 16

One Lab for All

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

April 16

Filling in the Gaps

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

April 16

Visions of Home

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

April 14

Reframing for Action

New lecture series addresses multifaceted injustice

April 14

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

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

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

Saturday Program Welcomes New Director, Jamerry Kim

April 05

Alumni Spotlight: Nina Tandon EE’01

April 05

Preparing Students for a Data-Driven World

March 30

Meet Our New Faculty Members

March 30

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

March 28

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

March 26

Meet Our Engineering Student Council

March 26

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

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

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

Meet Our New Makerspace Coordinator

March 18

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

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

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

March 07

Engineering Students competed in annual, regional ACM Programming Contest

March 01

Hummingbird Takes Flight: Mural by Cooper Student Makes the News

February 10

2021 Founder's Day Alumni Awardees

February 03

Remembering Barry Lewis

January 26

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

January 13

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

January 11

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

Meet Exchange Student, Hjalti Nielsen ChE'21

  • Founded by inventor, industrialist and philanthropist Peter Cooper in 1859, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art offers education in art, architecture and engineering, as well as courses in the humanities and social sciences.

  • “My feelings, my desires, my hopes, embrace humanity throughout the world,” Peter Cooper proclaimed in a speech in 1853. He looked forward to a time when, “knowledge shall cover the earth as waters cover the great deep.”

  • From its beginnings, Cooper Union was a unique institution, dedicated to founder Peter Cooper's proposition that education is the key not only to personal prosperity but to civic virtue and harmony.

  • Peter Cooper wanted his graduates to acquire the technical mastery and entrepreneurial skills, enrich their intellects and spark their creativity, and develop a sense of social justice that would translate into action.