Reunion 2025 Schedule of Events

Reunion 2025

Registration for the 2025 All Cooper Reunion is now closed. 

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26

7:00 pm- 8:30 pm: 2025 Benjamin Menschel Distinguished Lecture, Annabelle Selldorf in conversation with Professor Nader Tehrani. Reunion attendees may register for reserved seating here.

Ongoing:
•    Cable yearbooks and Peter Cooper paraphernalia on display in the Library
•    Mechanic to Millionaire: The Peter Cooper Story documentary, directed by Janet Gardner A’65, showing in the Library
•    A Comedy for Mortals: Artists Books of Tammy Nguyen A’07, exhibition on view in the Library
•    Alumni Roof Terrace open for visiting

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27

9:30 am - 2:00 pm: Check In, 41 Cooper Square lobby

10:00 am - 11:30 am: Campus tour, meet in Foundation Building lobby

11:30 am - 1:00 pm: Luncheon, Alumni Roof Terrace, 41 Cooper Square

1:00 pm - 2:15 pm: State of the Cooper Union, Update by Cooper Union leadership, Rose Auditorium, 41 Cooper Square

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm: Special program "Cooper Places" with Archives Librarian Mary Mann and Professor Emeritus Peter Buckley, Room 104, 41 Cooper Square

Ongoing:
•    Cable yearbooks and Peter Cooper paraphernalia on display in the Library
•    Mechanic to Millionaire: The Peter Cooper Story documentary, directed by Janet Gardner A’65, showing in the Library
•    A Comedy for Mortals: Artists Books of Tammy Nguyen A’07, exhibition on view in the Library
•    Alumni Roof Terrace open for visiting
•    Great Hall open for visiting

5:30 pm - 8:30 pm: All Cooper Reunion Party, Chrysler Building, 405 Lexington Avenue

Experience one of New York’s Art Deco treasures with a special Cooper Union connection. In addition to a cocktail reception, guests can join guided tours of the building—including seeing the famed eagle gargoyles up close! Building tours will be held throughout the evening, with signups on a first-come, first-served basis. Convenient to Grand Central Terminal at 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue. Must be 21+ to attend the evening party. 

Reunion is open to all alumni, families, and their guests. If you have any questions or concerns, please email Helen Freeman, Assistant Director for Alumni Affairs, at helen.freeman@cooper.edu.
 

  • 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.