Cooper Together 2025

Cooper Together 2025

Cooper Together is celebrated by alumni and friends around the world, commemorating Peter Cooper's birthday and honoring his philanthropic spirit. Regional meet ups are an opportunity to connect or reconnect with old friends and meet new ones.

Check back soon for a complete list of regional get togethers.

Interested in helping to organize a Cooper Together meet up in your area? Contact Helen Freeman, Assistant Director for Alumni Affairs, at helen.freeman@cooper.edu.

Cooper Together 2025 Organizing Committee (in formation)

Arizona
Janet Reed AR’80
Robert Tieni AR’80

Atlanta, GA
Allen Wolmer CE’68

Australia
Adam Scholem EE’03

Boston, MA
Melissa Appel ME’02
Amy Chambers ME’16

Chicago, IL
Felicia Zusman BSE’98

Connecticut
Cristina Aguirre-Ross AR’81

Denver, CO
Li Shu EE’92

Houston, TX
Michael Craig ChE’90
Vito Dilenna ME’06
Sophie Landau ChE’15

Hudson Valley, NY
Robert Tan AR’81

Long Island, NY
Kelly Occiuzzo Zack A’90
Ron Vogel ChE’01

Michigan
Robert Buxbaum ChE’76

Montreal, QC, Canada
Ellen Zhao A’04

New Orleans, LA
Madeline Foster-Martinez CE’12

Northern NJ
Anna Brook BSE’04

Orange County, CA
Larry Seidman EE’61

Philadelphia, PA
Jeb Brookman AR’96

Portland, OR
Angel O’Brien AR’02

San Francisco/Bay Area, CA
John Leeper AR’85
Gilly Youner A’82
Hsu-Wei Shueh EE’90

Tokyo, Japan
Toshio Fujii AR’89

Washington, DC
Jesse Aronson EE’84

  • 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.