Faculty News 2024
2024
- August 19
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Prof. Sam Keene to Lead New Computer Science Department
Professor Keene will serve as the first chair of Cooper's new computer science program. We asked him to weigh in on his plans for the department.
Faculty: News
- August 14
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Writing Associate Liza St. James Receives NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship
She is one of 15 recipients for fiction
Faculty: News
- August 12
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Meet Abhishek Sharma, Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering
Faculty: News
- July 08
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Yuri Masnyj Named Asst Dean of School of Art
- May 24
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Assistant Professor Abigail Raz Co-Authors Paper Published in Discrete Applied Mathematics
- May 20
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End of Year Message from Acting Dean Eber
Faculty: News
- May 20
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Assistant Professor Cynthia Lee Co-Authors Paper Featured in Sustainable And Resilient Infrastructure
- May 17
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Associate Professor Stanislav Mintchev Co-Published In Mathematical Modelling Of Natural Phenomena
Associate Professor of Mathematics Stanislav Mintchev has co-published in Mathematical Modelling of Natural Phenomena (Vol. 19, 2024). The paper delves into the topic of “Emergent properties in a V1-inspired network of Hodgkin–Huxley neurons.”
Faculty: News
- May 17
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Cooper Students Compete in the 2024 AIAA Design/Build/Fly Competition
Cooper engineering students and their faculty advisor, Dirk M. Luchtenburg, professor of mechanical engineering, competed in the 2024 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Design/Build/Fly competition hosted by Textron Aviation in Wichita, Kansas
Faculty: News
- May 16
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Cooper’s Solar Decathlon Team at the 22nd Solar Decathlon Design Challenge Final Competition
Engineering students Larry Zheng CE’26, Amelia Roopnarine ME’25, Lawrence Zeng CE’26, Mizanul Hoque ME’, and Vito Di Gregorio CE’26, alongside architecture students Abraham (Bram) Cherner ARCH’26, Kyle Ku ARCH’26, and Miao (Miles) Xue ARCH’26, showcased their project at the 2024 Solar Decathlon Design Challenge Final Competition held at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado.
Faculty: News
- May 07
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Meet the New Saturday Program Staff
We spoke with José Ortiz, the new director of The Cooper Union Saturday Program, and Ciana Malchione A'21, who was recently promoted to assistant director.
- April 16
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Meet New STEM Outreach Director, Yvonne Thevenot
The Cooper Union welcomes Yvonne Thevenot as the new director of STEM Outreach, which offers a host of educational programs to New York City high school students.
Faculty: News
- April 12
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Introducing our Newest Staff Members
Blair Ribeiro, Lizbeth Soto, and Jake Zweiback have joined Albert Nerken School of Engineering Dean’s Office
- April 03
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Assistant Professor of Art Fia Backström Receives the Borlem Prize
Faculty: News
- March 25
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Professor Jennifer Weiser Receives Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award for 2024-2025
Dr. Jennifer Weiser, an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award in Biomedical Sciences to Austria for the 2024-2025 academic year from the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.
Faculty: News
- February 29
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Cooper Solar Decathlon Team's Sure We Can Design Secures Finalist Position
Over the weekend, The Cooper Union Solar Decathlon team delivered a virtual presentation to a panel of jurors at the 2024 Solar Decathlon Design Challenge Semifinal and secured a place as a finalist under the Multifamily Building Division
- February 21
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Cooper Union Engineering Students Participate in 10th Virtual Winter School on Computational Chemistry
Several Cooper Union engineering students participated in the 10th Virtual Winter School on Computational Chemistry to learn how computational quantum mechanics is used to study the structures, reactions, and applications of chemical compounds, biomolecules, and materials
Faculty: News
- January 30
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Art and Architecture Faculty Participate in the Whitney Biennial 2024
The 2024 Whitney Biennial features current adjunct faculty members from both the School of Art and The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture.
- January 08
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Brian Swann's Latest Book Chronicles Life During COVID
The latest book by Brian Swann, professor emeritus of humanities, is titled Ya-Honk! Goes the Wild Gander or, Covid Divagations.
Faculty: News
2023
- December 01
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2023 AIChE Annual Student Conference: Chemical Engineering Students Win Top Awards
Last month, chemical engineering students and faculty attended the 2023 AIChE Annual Student Conference in Orlando, Florida. AIChE stands as the foremost global organization for chemical engineering professionals, boasting over 60,000 members from 110 countries.
- November 16
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Mechanical Engineering Students Presented at ASME’s 2023 IMECE
In early November, Cooper mechanical engineering students Brandon Bunt BSE’22 MME, Maya Grutman ME’24, Calder Leppitsch ME’24, Daniel Zaretsky ME’24, Benjamin Meiner ME’24, Jason Chen ME’24, Christos Potamianos ME’25, and Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Kamau Wright, Associate Professor of Mechanical and C.V. Starr Distinguished Professor Dirk M. Luchtenburg, and Adjunct Professor Robert Dell attended and presented research at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) 2023 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE) in New Orleans, Louisiana.
- November 09
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Faculty-Curated Exhibition on Jewish Italian Artist Corrado Cagli at CIMA
A new exhibition, curated by HSS professor Raffaele Bedarida, explores the life and work of Jewish Italian artist Corrado Cagli and is accompanied by a series of talks featuring Cooper Union faculty.
Faculty: News
- October 17
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Meet Eilin Pérez, Visiting Assistant Professor of History
Eilin Rafael Pérez joins the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences this semester as a visiting assistant professor of history.
- October 12
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In Memoriam: Winston Wilkerson
Wilkerson worked at Cooper Union for nearly 50 years
- October 12
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Three Questions for Mokena Makeka
An award-winning architect, Mokena Makeka joins the Cooper community this month in the new role of special advisor to the vice president of academic affairs.
