The IDC Foundation has awarded Cooper a $1 million grant establishing two new distinguished professorships and supporting continued innovation in architecture, engineering, and building construction.
An exhibition in the colonnade of the Foundation Building featured influential and inspiring women who have brought music, performance, and dialogue to the Great Hall in recent years.
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts was selected to receive a National Endowment for Arts grant in support of a new solo-exhibition by Professor William Villalongo A'99.
Mokena Makeka, director of the CPL, opens a call for proposals that engage Cooper’s disciplines to generate new ideas, solutions, or innovations for our shared civic life. Submissions are accepted on a rolling basis.
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.
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.