Shigeru Ban AR'84

In Poland, Shigeru Ban AR'84 deployed paper partitions to help Ukrainian refugees. For more information, click here, here and here.

Jeanine Centuori AR'83

Jeanine Centuori AR'83’s civic engagement architecture work at Woodbury University’s School of Architecture was recently featured in Archinect. Jeanine is the Director of the school’s Agency for Civic Engagement (ACE) program which uses a multidisciplinary approach to designing for the public. For more information, click here.

Randy Klinger A'78

Randy Klinger A'78 sends in this note:

"I just joined Prince Street Gallery, W27th St, NYC (www.randyklinger.com). I also founded an art center in the UK; having raised the money and directed the center (www.morayartcentre.org). I curated 200+ contemporary exhibitions and 4 historical exhibitions, with The British Museum, Courtauld Gallery and National Galleries."

Liana Finck A'09

Liana Finck A'09 writes a monthly advice-column comic for The New Yorker titled Dear Pepper. For more information and to view one of the comics, 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.