CLASS NOTES

Tanner Clapham AR'10

Tanner Clapham AR'10’s firm CO Architects designed the Health Futures Center at Arizona State University with a modernist-inspired facade built for desert heat. For more information, click here.

Tom Bessoir EE'79

Tom Bessoir EE'79’s newest art film, Three Pride Flags, had its American premiere at The Art of Brooklyn Film Festival in June. For more information, click here and here.

Lee Milby A'12

Lee Milby A'12 was The Artists Forum’s May Artist of the Month. For more information and to read a profile on Lee, click here.

Maria Westerståhl AR'99

Maria Westerståhl AR'99 writes an article for The Oxonian Review about a fresh installation of work by John Hejduk AR'50. For more information and to read the full article, click here.

  • 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.