At Cooper

Table of Contents: Vol. LIV, No. 1, Summer 2024

At Cooper Summer 2024 cover

Letter by Laura Sparks

Features

Transformation in the Making
A glimpse behind the scenes with community members who are contributing to Cooper’s strategic progress.

Laura Sparks: A Look Back
With President Sparks announcing her departure, we share some highlights of her leadership.

Queer Geometries
Uyen Nguyen ME’14 explores queer identity and community through mathematics, origami, and fashion.

Commencement 2024
The Cooper Union’s 164rd Commencement took place in the Great Hall on Wednesday, May 22.

2024 End of Year Show
Highlights from The Cooper Union’s annual End of Year Show (EOYS), which opened on May 22.

Interdisciplinary Lift
John Manuck ChE’69 and his wife, Mary, fund a new endowed professorship to support collaboration across disciplines.

New Faculty
Cooper welcomed several additions to its full-time faculty in engineering, art, and HSS.

Anthony Vidler (1941–2023): Origins of Study
An exhibition and Great Hall gathering celebrate the life of professor and former dean Anthony Vidler.

Collaboration Takes Root
Students behind the Cooper Union Garden Project turn rooftop growing beds into a space of research and collaboration.

$4 Million Bequest to Keep Innovation Alive
The Edward Durbin and Joan Morris Innovation Fund enriches student experiences in the school of engineering.

New Degree Program in Computer Science
 

Cooper Dot Edu

AICHE Conference Win
Cooper students took first place in multiple divisions at the annual chemical engineering competition.

Transatlantic Bridges
Corrado Cagli exhibition curated by Professor Raffaele Bedarida.

Benjamin Menschel Fellowship Exhibition
The latest exhibition showcased four projects, all by fellows from the school of art

Alice Pisani Awarded $1.4m Grant
The COSMOBEST European Grant will support her research on cosmic voids.

Darren Walker in The Great Hall
Walker delivered the 2024 Benjamin Menschel distinguished lecture and was joined by New Yorker editor David Remnick.

New Leadership in the School of Art
Adriana Farmiga A’96 was named dean; Yuri Masnyj A’98 was appointed assistant dean.

Typographics Turns Ten
The annual type festival ran June 10 to 18.

Remembering Anthony Candido
Candido taught at The Cooper Union for more than 40 years.

Faculty in the Whitney Biennial
School of Art adjuncts Lotus L. Kang and Simon Liu and School of Architecture adjunct Torkwase Dyson were featured in the 2024 exhibition.

Deborah Remington Grant
Supports digital archive focused on the late School of Art professor.
 

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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.