CLASS NOTES

Nekisha Durrett A'98

Nekisha Durrett A'98 was selected by Bryn Mawr College in May 2023 to create a monument addressing a legacy of exclusionary practices at the College and enabling the campus community to respond to the question, What stories are missing from Bryn Mawr College? Durrett's monument is the centerpiece of a collaboration between Bryn Mawr and Monument Lab known as The ARCH (Art Remediating Campus Histories) Project.

Evan Granite ChE'85

Evan Granite ChE'85 co-authored the paper “Domestic Wastes and Byproducts: A Resource for Critical Material Supply Chains”, Evan J. Granite, Grant Bromhal, Jennifer Wilcox, and Mary Anne Alvin, National Academy of Engineering, The Bridge, 53(3), 59-66, Fall 2023. Wastes that can serve as feedstocks for recovery of metals are coal ash, acid mine drainage, petroleum coke, mine and smelter wastes, asbestos tailings, red mud, produced waters, municipal solid wastes, municipal sewage sludge, e-wastes, garnet waste abrasives, and phosphogypsum waste. The recovery of critical metals from these abundant byproducts can also spur clean-up of the waste impoundments.

For a link to the paper, please click here.

David Berezovsky ChE'13

David Berezovsky ChE'13 married Sivanna Shusterman on August 13, 2023 in Closter, NJ. The happy couple celebrated with Cooper Union alumni Anna Brook BSE'04 (sister of the groom), Leo Grinberg ChE'97 (cousin of the groom), Peter Liu ChE'13, Polina Canepa ME'14, and Charles Canepa CE'11 / MCE'13.

Abraham Cruz A'00, Raul Castro-Cerrata A'00, and Anita Ragusa A'04

Cooper Union School of Art alumni Abraham Cruz (2000), Raul Castro-Cerrato (2000), and Anita Ragusa (2004) are featured in an upcoming exhibition titled EXQUISITE CORPSE. Curated by Abraham Cruz, Exquisite Corpse is a group collaboration by artists who reside in the Hudson Valley and NYC. The exhibit follows the journey of seven artists/collaborators with one rooted seed – queer culture: past, present, and future. In this exhibit, the artist will present their journey as members of the queer community and the visual representation of a collaborative journey through the game Exquisite Corpse.

  • 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.