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  • Phonathon broke the mold this year. One hundred twenty volunteers comprised of alumni, students, professors, parents and Cooper Union community members raised a record $411,963 over the course of five nights. In the 30-plus year history of the Phonathon, this is the first year that alumni chairs were joined by parents, who led two of the Phonathon evenings, and a student co-chair.
  • Have you seen the Hewitt Building recently? Demolition is almost complete, and excavation is about to begin. Follow the progress on our webcam.

Congratulations

  • Stanley Allen (AR'81) was co-director of the Princeton Convocation on West African Cities, March 2007, at Princeton University.
  • Grace Bondi, coordinator of applications, will be retiring March 30, 2007 after 27 years of service to Cooper Union. We wish her a happy retirement.
  • Craniv Boyd (A'07) will participate in the highly competitive internship program at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection,Venice, summer 2007.
  • Joseph Cataldo (Engr. fac.) has been selected as the winner in the Metropolitan District competition for the 2006-2007 Chi Epsilon Excellence in Teaching Award.
  • Alexander Gil (AR'01) of Alex Gil Design, Brooklyn, NY, was the winner of the first Porcher(R)/Jado Design Experience Contest in the powder room category for his high-concept, boutique design, "Light From Within."
  • Daniel Libeskind (AR'70) was honored by the Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities (cIcu) and inducted into the 2007 Independent Sector Alumni Hall of Distinction on Monday, March 5. Nominated by the Cooper Union Alumni Association, Libeskind was one of 17 inductees representing first generation graduates as trail blazers for their families and communities. Benedetto Puccio (A'57) delivered Libeskind's acceptance remarks, quoting, "as a child of Holocaust survivors with a childhood spent in Communist Poland," his education at The Cooper Union "opened the boundaries between art and architecture, between theory and practice."
  • Rob Marano (EE'93/Engr. fac.) has assumed the role of president and CEO of Indorse Technologies, a new information security software vendor, which recently received a $6 million investment from a consortium of U.S. and overseas venture capital firms.
  • The American Institute of Architects (AIA) College of Fellows has awarded its 2007 Latrobe Prize of $100,000 for the proposal, "On the Water, A Model for the Future: A Study of New York and New Jersey Upper Bay." Awardees included Catherine Seavitt (AR'94) and Stanley Allen (AR'81).
  • Ysrael A. Seinuk (Arch. fac.) received an award for Carnival Center, Miami, FL, from the Association of Cuban Engineers and Cuban-American Association of Civil Engineers, Inc., at the 45th annual Dia del Ingeniero Gala, March 2007. He also presented an award named after him at the same event.
  • David Wootton (Engr. fac.) has secured an NSF grant for his project "Collaborative Research: Electrowetting Micro Array Printing System for Bioactive Tissue Construct Manufacturing." Dr. Wootton will be working in collaboration with Duke University on this project.
  • The 2007 Design Awards from the AIA New York Chapter include Architecture Honor: Diller (AR'79) Scofidio (AR'55/Arch. fac.) + Renfro, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; Interiors Merit: Christoff:Finio (AR'88), The Hecksher Foundation for Children, New York; and Project Merit, Smith-Miller + Hawkinson (AR'83) Architects (with Montroy Anderson Design Group, Severud Associates, Sideris Engineers, Procida Construction Corp.), 405 West 53rd Street, NY.
  • New members of the AIA include Steven Keith (AR'84), new architect member; Ahmad Rahimian (Arch. fac.), new steel corporate member representative; Daniel Libeskind (AR'70), reinstating member; and John Soraci (AR'86), reinstating member.

publications, presentations and major exhibitions

  • Wayne Adams (Computer Studio), New York Center for Art and Media Studies, Really? through April 13th.
  • Carmi Bee (AR'67), Real Estate Weekly, "Architect who puts his art and soul into housing" by Danielle Wolffe, February 14, 2007.
  • Robert Bordo (Art fac.), American Academy of Arts and Letters, American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts.
  • Peter Buckley (HS&S fac.), lecture, Bruce Museum, "Day and Night, Women and Men," March 5, 2007.
  • Jana Leo de Blas (Arch. fac.), exhibition (group show), Sao Paolo-Valencia Biennial, Valencia Spain March 27-June 17, 2007.
  • Ernesto Caivano (A'99), The Aspen Art Museum, Like color in pictures through April 17th.
  • Michael Canter (AR'76), New York Observer, "Dude Descending a Staircase" by Toni Schlesinger, February 19, 2007.
  • Kausik Chatterjee (Engr. fac.), Christopher Yu (EE'06) and Jonathan Poggie, Far East Journal of Applied Mathematics, "A Parallelized Monte Carlo Aglorithm for the 1D Steady-State Burger's Equation," Vol. 25, No. 3, December 2006; Chatterjee, Proceedings of the 45th International Conference on Applied Electromagnetics, Wireless and Optical Communications (Electroscience '06), "A Monte Carlo Algorithm for the Solution of the One-Dimensional Wave Equestion," November 2006; Chatterjee, Christopher Yu (EE'06) and Hua Yue (EE'06), extension on a research grant, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, "Floating Random-Walk Simulations for Aerodynamic Applications," 2007.
  • Diller (AR'79) Scofidio (AR'55/Arch. fac.) + Renfro, Abitare, "ICA Boston," by Michele Calzavara, February 2007; Oculus, "Raze or Reuse" by Sara Hart, Winter 2006-07; article in Urban Ecology by Christopher Hume; The Architect's Newspaper, "In Detail: School of American Ballet" by Anne Guiney, and "Architectural Theatrics", by Mariya Panteleyeva (AR'05), February 14, 2007.
  • Evan Douglis (AR'83), lecture, Cornell University, March 2007.
  • Anne Griffin (H&SS fac.), symposium, Johns Hopkins University's Center for Talented Youth (CTY), Stevens Institute of Technology, March 2007.
  • John Hejduk (AR'50/Arch. dean & fac. emeritus [deceased]), mention, Abitare #468, "BVS: Milano: Triennale Bovisa," January 2007.
  • Nina Hofer (AR 89), lecture, 2007 Architecture Education Summit, April 12-15, Los Angeles, CA.
  • Robert P. Hopkins (Eng. fac./dir., Computer Center), CQ Amateur Radio, "CQ Interviews: NASA Administrator Michael Griffin, NR3A," March 2007.
  • Diane Lewis (Arch. fac.), Inside-Out: Architecture New York City, Charta, 2007.
  • Tom McGrath (A'00), Cherry and Martin Gallery, April 7th-May 12th.
  • Lee Anne Miller (Art fac.) and Gian Berto Vanni (Art fac.), 100 New York Painters, by Cynthia Maris Dantzic.
  • Joan Ockman (AR'80), Temporalism Conference, Cornell University, Architecture, Art, Planning Program, lecture, "Nikola Tesla: Visionary 'Architect' of the Sentient Globe," March 2007.
  • Ohlhausen (AR'58), DuBois Architects (in partnership with WASA), Oculus, "Raze or Reuse" by Sara Hart, Winter 2006-07.
  • Walid Raad (Art fac.), Paula Cooper Gallery, Recent and/or not-so-recent works.
  • Jesse Reiser (AR'81), lecture, Cornell University, April 19; in "The Architect's Hand" by Suzannne Stephens, Architectural Record, February 2007.
  • Gail Satler (H&SS fac.), Chicago Loop Alliance's annual meeting, Two Tales of a City: Rebuilding Chicago's Architectural and Social Landscape, 1986-2005, February 2007.
  • Willy Sclarsic (AR'71), Architecture Boston, "There is a House in New Orleans: What Boston Can Learn from the Big Easy," March/April 2007.
  • Nicole Simpson (HS&S fac.), curator, New York Public Library, "Dawn of the American Revolution, 1768-1776," through July 7, 2007.
  • Lee H. Skolnick (AR'79), eOculus, "LHSA+DP Impacts X 5 in Caribbean," March 2007.
  • Ysrael A. Seinuk (Arch. fac.), lecture sponsored by The New York City Department of Design and Construction, "Structural Issues on Several High Rise Buildings," February 2007; lecture sponsored by ASCE, "Design Issues for Complex Buildings," March 2007.
  • Grahame Shane (Arch. fac.), lecture and CityLAB seminar, UCLA, February 2007.
  • Maren Stange (HS&S fac.), Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona, The Metropolis in the Photographic Era conference, "FSA Documentary Photography and the Question of Social Engineering," February 2007.
  • Azin Valy (AR'90), Suzan Wines (AR'90/Arch. fac.), New York Magazine, "Space Shifters" by Wendy Goodman, February 2007.
  • Anthony Vidler (Arch. dean & fac.), lecture, National Arts Club, March 2007; participant, "Hot Button Panel: The IT Factor: What Makes Something Hot?" sponsored by The New Museum, held at The Cooper Union, March 2007.
  • Jennifer Williams (Art fac.), A.I.R. Gallery, A.I.R. Gallery 7th Biennial.
  • Nathaniel Worden (AR'95), Interior Design, "Mix, Don't Match," January 2007.
  • Constantine Yapijakis (Engr. fac.), first Open University (electronic/long distance) in Greece, "Treatment/Management of Industrial and Hazardous Wastes."
  • Bryan Zimmerman (Photography), P.S. 122 Gallery, Screen Light Flu.

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giving to cooper union

  • The Alumni Roof Terrace Campaign is off to a remarkable start. More than 60 alumni have reserved spaces for their names to be engraved as a permanent legacy to support the building fund. Their contributions total almost $400,000. Alumni are encouraged to make a gift or pledge of $2,500 to $20,000 (payable through June 30, 2010) in order to secure a space for their name on the Terrace. More information is now available on the Giving to Cooper Union section of the web site or e-mail cubuilds@cooper.edu for details.
  • Jeanette Brooks has generously pledged a contribution to the new academic building fund. This gift, together with a grant from her late husband Louis Brooks (ME'41) in 2003, will support construction of our new academic building, and will help cover the costs of relocating the Louis and Jeanette Brooks Engineering Design Center to the new building.
  • Robert J. Hammond, Sr. (CE'38) has made a gift to Cooper Union to establish the Elizabeth and Robert Hammond Scholarship Fund and the Elizabeth and Robert Hammond Engineering Fund. The earnings from the scholarship fund will support engineering students with financial aid, while the engineering fund will provide unrestricted support for the Albert Nerken School of Engineering.

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Don't Miss

General Interest

  • The Engineering Open House for all admitted students will take place in the Great Hall on April 19th at 5:00 pm.
  • Induction into the Order of the Engineer, a national organization of engineers, will take place in the Wollman Lounge on April 24th from 12-2 p.m. Only engineering seniors are eligible to join.

  • On April 17, photographer Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe (A'75) will join Dr. Campbell for the President's Roundtable discussion scheduled at noon. Students interested in participating should contact the student ad-chairs in their respective schools to sign up.

    Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe was born and raised in Chicago and began her early training in art at The Art Institute of Chicago. Moutoussamy-Ashe graduated from Cooper Union's School of Art, and has served as Alumni Trustee for her alma mater.

    Crediting her late husband, tennis pro Arthur Ashe, for bringing out her talents, Moutoussamy-Ashe published her first collection of photographs in 1982. One of her most significant contributions to the field of photography and education was her 1993 book Daddy and Me. This memoir, a moving photographic journey, raised the level of AIDS awareness by bringing the face of humanity to the often-stigmatized illness and serves as a powerful tool in AIDS education.

Alumni Events

  • The Cooper Union Alumni Association will honor outstanding alumni at its annual Founder's Day Dinner Dance on Friday, April 27, 2007 at the historic Hudson Theater in the Millennium Broadway Hotel from 8:00 p.m. to midnight. The awards and honorees are: The Gano Dunn Award for outstanding professional achievement in engineering, Steven D. Silberstang (CE'70); the Augustus Saint Gaudens Award for outstanding professional achievement in art, Roy DeCarava (A'40) and Mark Alan Stamaty (A'69); the John Hejduk Award for outstanding contribution to the theory, teaching and/or practice of architecture, Carmi M. Bee (AR'67) and Michael Kwartler (AR'65); Alumnus of the Year, chairman of the Board of Trustees Ronald W. Drucker (CE'62); and Young Alumnus of the Year, Athena Caramichael DeNivo (CE'94). Celebrate Peter Cooper's 216th birthday with cocktails, dinner, awards and dancing! In conjunction with this event, the Class of 1982 will celebrate its 25th reunion.
  • The Golden Legion Celebration honoring the 50th anniversary of the Class of 1957 will be held Friday, May 4, 2007. Early Bird discussions and coffee will take place in The Albert Nerken School of Engineering at 9:30 am. Morning check-in will begin in The Foundation Building in The Great Hall Gallery at 10:30 a.m. The Class of 1957 will be inducted into the Golden Legion by President George Campbell Jr. during a luncheon in Wollman Lounge from 12:00 to 3:00 p.m. Guided tours will follow the luncheon, and the day's events will culminate with a reception for all Golden Legion members of the classes of 1926 through 1956 in Wollman Lounge from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

Upcoming Lectures and Public Programs

  • Adam Greenfield: The City Is Here for You to Use: Urban Form and Experience in the Age of Ambient Informatics
    Lecture, hosted by the Herb Lubalin Center, sponsored by the Gerald Philips Lecture Fund
    Monday, April 9, 6:30 pm
    The Great Hall
    7 East 7th Street at Third Avenue
    Free

    Everyware author Adam Greenfield will discuss how the computer has begun to disappear into the fabric of everyday life. Relatively little thought has been given specifically to how these changes might unfold at the scale of the city and how the advent of truly ubiquitous computing will change our urban places—both the way they're built, and the way we live in them.

    Greenfield's presentation will be followed by a panel discussion with Christina Ray of Glowlab, a creative lab exploring psychogeography as it relates to contemporary art; Soo-In Yang and David Benjamin of New York architectural practice The Living; and area/code principal Kevin Slavin.

  • James Carpenter: Environmental Refractions
    Lecture
    Tuesday, April 10, 6:30 pm
    The Great Hall
    7 East 7th Street at Third Avenue
    Free

    The Feltman Lectures, a series dedicated to advancing the principles and benefits of lighting design through the exploration of the practical, philosophical and aesthetic attributes of light and illumination, feature James Carpenter, principal and founder of James Carpenter Design Associates. Carpenter's firm is motivated by ecological and aesthetic goals to explore the material, structural and environmental beauty in the built environment. The work is a synthesis of creative ideas and technical expertise that straddles the fields of art, architecture and engineering. Light in transmission, reflection and refraction as it is perceived become the guiding principles in designing a complete architectural project.

    This lecture is made possible in part by the endowment of Sidney and Ellen Feltman, who experienced a lifetime in the lighting industry and felt a need to leave a legacy for education. The Feltman's gift to Cooper Union advances the benefits of good lighting design by introducing its architecture, art and engineering students to the philosophical contexts of lighting design and visual perception.

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