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Faculty-Student Senate 2025 - 2026

Elected Representatives

School of Art 
Student: Joanna Kim and Talmadge Parnell-Ward 
Faculty: Lucy Raven and Lea Cetera 

School of Architecture
Student: Daniel Luo and Salina Shih
Faculty: Michael Young and Nader Tehrani 

Humanities and Social Sciences  
Faculty: Loujaina Abdelwahed and Victor Peterson 

School of Engineering  
Student: Kevin Sebastian and Daria Golitsyna 
Faculty: Robert Topper and Stella Banou 

Library 
Staff: Mackenzie Williams 

Officers
Lucy Raven, Chair
Nader Tehrani, Vice Chair
Stella Banou, Secretary

Ex-officio Members
Steven McLaughlin, President 
John Ruth, VP for Finance/Treasurer 
Adriana Farmiga, Dean of School of Art 
Ben Aranda, Acting Dean of School of Architecture 
Barry Shoop, Dean of School of Engineering 
Nada Ayad, Acting Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences 
Lisa Norberg, Director of Library 

  • 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.