CLASS NOTES

Gaspare Malek AR'83

Gaspare Malek AR'83 has been promoted to to Senior Associate by Beyer Blinder Belle Architects and Planners. For more information, click here.

Steven Hillyer AR'90

Steven Hillyer AR'90 is the Project Director of Cooper's Voices from the Great Hall digital archive, an extraordinary new public resource that tells the history of New York and the nation through the words of the people who helped to shape it from the stage of the storied Great Hall. For more information, click here and here.

Daniel Libeskind AR'70

Daniel Libeskind AR'70 is mentioned in an article in The Architect's Newspaper about calls for a permanent COVID-19 memorial. For more information and to read the full article, click here.

Xenia Diente A’99

Xenia Diente A'99 helped launch the petition to name a street corner in Queens “Little Manila Avenue” in celebration of the large Filipino presence in the neighborhood. For more information and to view a video interview with Xenia, click here and here.

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  • “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.