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2026 CUAA Founder’s Day Awards Ceremony

Thursday, March 26, 2026, 6 - 9pm

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Register now for the Cooper Union Alumni Association Founder's Day Ceremony. The list of honorees will be announced soon! Come celebrate this year's CUAA Awards recipients!

2026 CUAA Founder's Day Awards
Thursday, March 26, 2026
6:00 p.m. Reception
7:00 p.m. Program

Cooper Union
41 Cooper Square
Frederick P. Rose Auditorium

$40 registration fee. Please register in advance here.

Please contact Helen Freeman, Assistant Director for Alumni Affairs, at helen.freeman@cooper.edu or 212-353-4139 if you have any questions.

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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.