CLASS NOTES

Kim Min-Kyu AR'14

Kim Min-Kyu AR'14 and his makgeolli brewery Boksoondoga are featured in CNN Travel. For more information and to read the full article, click here.

Andre Soluri AR'98

Andre Soluri AR'98 presented at an event for the Open Restaurants Innovation program in May, featuring presentations by three teams who have been working directly with multiple stakeholders, including restaurateurs, disability advocates and city agency staff, to determine recommendations for New York City's permanent outdoor dining program. For more information, click here.

Suzanne Bloom A'72

Suzanne Bloom A'72, creator of classic books that celebrate childhood, reveals to the School Library Journal what makes a great picture book and tells the story behind her new title Zack and Ike Are Exactly Alike. For more information and to read the full interview, click here.

TJ Gottesdiener AR'79

TJ Gottesdiener AR'79 is included in the 2022 Construction Power 100 list, which highlights the influential contractors, architects, engineers, labor leaders, government officials and other experts who are responsible for New York’s evolving built environment. For more information, click here.

  • 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.