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  • Anthony Vidler, Dean of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, was awarded a Ph.D. after making a public defense of his dissertation "Histories of the Immediate Present: The Invention of Modernism 1930-1975 (Kaufmann, Rowe, Banham, Tafuri)" at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.

  • Congratulations to Elizabeth Diller (AR’79) and Professor Ricardo Scofidio (AR’55) on receiving the 2005 National Architecture Design Award, presented to their firm, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, by the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.

  • Arthur Rosenblatt (AR’52) was posthumously awarded the James William Kideney Gold Medal Award, the highest award that AIANYS can bestow on one of its members, recognizing lifetime contributions to the profession, the AIA, and the City of New York.

  • Bone/Levine, the firm of Kevin Bone, Associate Professor-Proportional Time, Architecture, received a Design Award from AIANYS.

  • Professor Diana Agrest, Architecture, won first place in the International Design Competition for the Urban Design and Planning of Xujiahui and Surrounding Areas in Shanghai, and recently won grants from The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, the New York State Council for the Arts and the American Institute of Architects Arnold J. Brunner Grant.

  • Written and directed by Cooper Union alumnus Mike Mills (A’89), the film Thumbsucker (based on a novel by Walter Kirn) was released on September 16 by Sony Pictures Classics to rave reviews. Mills received the Guardian New Directors Award at the Edinburgh Film Festival. www.sonyclassics.com/thumbsucker

  • Written, directed, edited and produced by Jennifer Reeves, adjunct faculty, School of Art, The Time We Killed has received the FIPRESCI Critics Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival, Best NY, NY Narrative Feature at the Tribeca Film Festival, and Outstanding Artistic Achievement at Outfest Los Angeles.

  • Marilyn Henrion (A’52) has been awarded a 2005 Fellowship by the New York Foundation for the Arts.

  • Saskia Bos, Dean of the School of Art, will participate in the ACADEMY REMIX Symposium on November 19 at the Städelschule in Frankfurt/Main, Germany. Dean Bos will deliver a lecture and participate in a panel discussion moderated by Steven Henry Madoff (Contributing Editor, Artnews) titled, "Paradigms in Art Teaching." Other participants include Daniel Birnbaum (Städelschule), Mehmet Behluli (Missing Identity), Okwui Enwezor (San Francisco Art Institute), and Richard Wentworth (artist, London). ACADEMY REMIX is an exchange project between art students of the Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste - Städelschule, Frankfurt/Main, in co-operation with "Missing Identity," Kosovo, and "relations," a project initiated by the German Federal Cultural Foundation. www.academy-remix.de/

Publications and papers

  • Elizabeth Oldman, adjunct faculty, Humanities and Social Sciences: forthcoming articles in Studies in Philology titled: "Milton, Grotius, and the Law of War: A Reading of Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes," and in War, Literature, and the Arts titled: "'Against such hellish mischief fit to oppose': A Grotian Reading of Milton's War in Heaven."

  • Marek Bartelik, Professor, Adjunct, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences recently published Early Polish Modern Art: Unity in Multiplicity.

  • Anthony Vidler, Dean of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, will be participating in the UCLA YEAR OF THE ARTS program, in the "Architecture and Urban Design Lecture Series" on November 28. www.arts.ucla.edu. Dean Vidler recently lectured at the Berlage Institute Postgraduate Laboratory of Architecture (The Netherlands).

  • Simon Ben-Avi, Engineering Associate Dean and Professor and Rob Marano (EE’93), adjunct faculty, Mechanical Engineering, delivered a paper on identity theft and fraud prevention measures at the "Internet Identity Conference" held at UC Berkeley. Dean Ben-Avi and Professor Marano are co-founders of Falkin Systems LLC, a company that specializes in secure authentication of identity. Their paper is entitled "Architecture and the Process of Federated Digital Authentication and Authorization."

  • Joseph Cataldo, Professor, Civil Engineering, co-authored a paper for the National Center for Housing and the Environment entitled "Analysis of Transmission Losses in Ephemerial Streams." This paper focuses on rainfall and runoff loses in streams in the arid southwest. A statistical model was developed by using inflow volumes and peak inflow discharge to estimate steam losses along channel beds and banks and was verified by estimating losses in streams in the plains states.

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Welcome

  • Welcome Carrie Netzer Wajda, Reference Librarian and Mitsuko Brooks and Maggie Kadel, Circulation Assistants in The Cooper Union Library.

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giving to cooper union

  • The Cooper Union received a $640,000 bequest from Edith S. Meiers, widow of Walter W. Meiers (E'25).

  • The newest member of The Society of 1859 is Faith B. Walker, widow of Clyde H. Walker (ME '52).

  • There are two new named endowments, the Pearl Dorn Endowed Scholarship Fund – $25,000, and the Clyde H. Walker Family Scholarship Fund – $25,000.

  • Catherine Smolich (A'50) established a $25,000 charitable gift annuity.

  • Annual Fund contributions have exceeded $300,000 so far, and this year's Annual Fund campaign is structured as an Alumni Class Competition. Prizes will be awarded to the donors in the classes that demonstrate the greatest generosity and largest class participation. Winning classes will be announced in July 2006, and top prizes will include:

    • The class that raises the most support for the 2005-2006 Annual Fund will win a Class Reunion Dinner at a fabulous downtown location.

    • The two classes with the largest overall participation (by percentage and by total number) will win a Class Reunion Rooftop Cocktail Reception in the Foundation Building’s Peter Cooper Suite.

    • The class with the greatest increase in percentage of participation will win a Signature Class Gift for each participating class member

      E-mail annualfund@cooper.edu or call 212-353-4173.

  • The Robin Hood Foundation initially awarded a one year $110,000 grant to the Immigrant Engineer Re-Training Program run by Cooper Union in collaboration with Bnai Zion and recently awarded the program a $180,000, 18-month renewal grant.

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General Interest

  • The President's Roundtable Discussion Series, which brings together distinguished leaders in many fields and small groups of students, will next host Cooper Union Trustee Richard S. Lincer, a partner at Cleary Gottleib Steen & Hamilton LLP, on November 29 at noon. Students interested in participating should contact the student Ad-Chairs in their respective schools to sign up.

  • The 30th Annual Cooper Union Ski Trip will be from January 8 through January 13. For more information contact Associate Dean of Students Stephen Baker.

alumni events

  • The Parents Council of The Cooper Union invites all parents to attend The Cooper Union Parents Reception on Monday, November 7, 6-8pm in the Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery with President Campbell introducing Saskia Bos, Dean, School of Art. E-mail parents@cooper.edu.

  • Looking ahead, there are some very exciting alumni events coming up. Full details are on The Cooper Union alumni website, www.cualumni.com.

    • November 13, 11:30am-2pm, The Florida Chapter will host its first West Coast Florida Alumni Luncheon at Fred's at the Renaissance Vinoy Resort, Saint Petersburg, Florida. Alumni who live in West Florida can get to know one another over lunch and a visit to the Salvador Dali Museum. $45 per person for luncheon and museum visit; $35 for luncheon only.

    • November 29, 6-8pm, The Alumni Faculty Liaison Committee will host a Welcoming Reception for Saskia Bos, new Dean, School of Art in the Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery, Foundation Building. On exhibit will be Images of the Belgian Resistance, curated by Anne Griffin, Professor of Political Science.

    • December 3, 12-2pm, The Florida Chapter will host the Art Basel Miami Beach Alumni Luncheon at Talula Bar and Restaurant, Miami Beach, Florida – with guest speaker, Saskia Bos, new Dean of the School of Art. All alumni planning to attend this internationally renowned art fair are invited to join local alumni for lunch and a talk on the highlights of the fair. $47 per person including entry to Art Basel Miami Beach art fair, $25 for luncheon only.

  • On October 20 nearly 60 alumni, faculty and students attended the CU on Wall Street Fall Reception. Ray Falci (ME'86) and Larry Ng (EE'78) hosted this evening of networking for alumni in financial services and students interested in the field. Guest speaker Dr. Arnold J. Shapiro (ChE'71), Managing Director and CIO, Global Fixed Income, ABP, spoke about how he built his career since graduating from The Cooper Union.

  • The Fifth Annual CUAA Art Auction Casino Night, held on October 29, was a huge success. More than 100 alumni and guests came to play poker, craps and blackjack and bid on original artwork by young alumni, specialty gift baskets and one-of-a-kind experiences at the silent auction.

Exhibitions

  • Images of the Belgian Resistance Past and Present: An Exhibition Commemorating Resistance in Belgium, 1940-1945
    Curated by Anne Griffin, Professor of Political Science, The Cooper Union
    Through December 10

Weekdays 11am–7pm, Saturday 11am–5pm, closed Sundays
Gallery tours: November 1 at 1pm and November 5 at 3pm
Arthur A. Houghton, Jr. Gallery, 7 East 7th Street at Third Avenue
Free

Following Germany’s attack on France and the Low Countries in 1940, a resistance movement developed in Belgium. Belgian citizens who joined the resistance did so at the risk of their lives. They managed to save the lives of thousands of Jewish children and to rescue over 800 allied airmen who had been shot down over the country. In this exhibit contemporary portraits of members of the resistance are paired with wartime photos of the same people in the context of an overview of the invasion and resistance.

  • Vitaly Komar: Three-Day Weekend
    Through December 11
    Weekdays 12am-7pm, Saturday 12-5 pm, closed Sundays, and November 24, 2005 through November 26, 2005
    The Cooper Union, Humanities Gallery, 51 Astor Place
    Free and open to the public

Known for irony during his prominent 30-year collaboration with artist Alex Melamid as "Komar & Melamid," Vitaly Komar has apparently become serious with "Three-Day Weekend," an exhibition symbolizing the peaceful coexistence of different peoples and different concepts of faith and spirituality: Friday for Muslims, Saturday for Jews and Sundays for Christians. The artwork invites people of all other faiths, from Bahai to Buddhism and atheists, to dedicate themselves to love, family and creativity for three days each week. In elaborate mandalas (a design symbolizing the universe), Komar unites ancient symbols of spirituality with family and historical photographs.

  • Chip Kidd: Book One - Twenty years of books, sketches, ideas, etc. 1986-2006
    Curated by Mike Essl, Assistant Professor of Graphic Design, The Cooper Union
    November 17 through February 4
    Opening reception: November 17, 6 to 8pm

    Weekdays 11am-7pm, Saturday 12-5pm
    Closed Sundays, November 24 through November 26, December 22 through January 3 and January 16
    The Cooper Union, School of Art, 2nd Floor, 7 East 7th Street at Third Avenue
    Free

Heralded by The New York Times Magazine as a “leading designer” and by the New York Post as a “graphics guru,” the work of renowned book designer Chip Kidd will be on view in an exclusive exhibition at The Cooper Union. Kidd’s retrospective provides a behind the scenes look at the entire spectrum of the book design process, including over three hundred book covers, correspondences with authors and artists, sketches, and vintage media clippings about book jackets. Kidd, a passionate Batman archivist and super-hero aficionado, will also display original commissioned artwork used by Frank Miller, Chris Ware, Tony Millionaire and Alex Ross. Covers for David Sedaris, James Ellroy, Oliver Sacks’ books such as An Anthropologist on Mars, Migraine and Uncle Tungsten, and the immediately identifiable Cormac McCarthy trilogy of All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing and Cities of the Plain will also be part of the singular exhibition. Chip Kidd ’s career in graphic design spans twenty years and his work illustrates his unique gift to encapsulate a book’s essence into a graphic statement. The exhibition coincides with the release of Book One Work: 1986-2006, a monograph just published by Rizzoli.  www.cooper.edu/art/lubalin

  • Benjamin Menschel Fellowship Exhibition
    November 8-18
    Foundation Building, 5th & 6th floors, 7 East 7th Street at Third Avenue
    Free

Featuring work by Lior Galili (AR’09), Ryan Garrett (A’06), Daniel Meridor (AR’06), Edgar Pedroza (A’06) and Eugene Wasserman (E’06).

  • "TWO & THREE: Mylar Drawings", the work of Joan Waltemath, adjunct faculty, Architecture, was exhibited at Victoria Munroe Fine Art in Boston, MA.

  • Sharon Hayes, adjunct faculty, School of Art, has two new projects at Art in General though December 17. Both of her performance-based works, "After Before" and "in the near future," are part of Art in General’s New Commissions Program. www.artingeneral.org.

  • Larry Brown, adjunct faculty, School of Art, is in a group exhibition titled "Conduit: Mapping the Connections between Art and Science" at Columbus State University through December 8. www.colstate.edu.

  • Matthew Cusick (A'93 and Visiting Artist, Advanced Drawing) is in Exit Art's "Exit Biennial II: Traffic" on view through December 23. www.exitart.org.

  • Carrie Moyer (Visiting Artist in Advanced Painting) is in the Brooklyn Academy of Music's 2005 "NextNext Visual Art" a group exhibition of new projects curated by Dan Cameron featuring twelve Brooklyn artists. This show will be on view through December 17. www.bam.org.

  • Will Villalongo (A’99 and Visiting Artist) is in the group exhibition "You Are Here" at Ballroom Marfa in Marfa, Texas through February 27. www.ballroommarfa.org.

  • Laura Napier (A'98 and Photography Department staff member) has curated "Special Collection," a group exhibition at the Mott Haven Branch of the New York Public Library and includes work by alumni Julie Nagle and Josephine Halvorson (A’03), and Haisi Hu (A’99 and Video Department staff member), as well as work by staff members Alina Grumiller and Dan Walsh. E-mail: info@specialcollection.org.

  • Isaac Resnikoff (A’02) has a solo exhibition of new work titled "We Run Out of Continent" at Fleisher Ollman Gallery in Philadelphia through November 12. www.fleisher-ollmangallery.com.

  • Jeffrey Gibson, Outreach Program Advisor and teacher, has a solo exhibition titled "Indigenous Anomaly" at The American Indian Community House Gallery through November 23. There will be a gallery talk on November 2 at 6:30 pm. www.aich.org.

  • Stephan Pascher (A’82) has an installation "Lucky Chairs" at Orchard. www.orchard47.org.

  • Jessica Stammen (A’03) has a solo exhibition "Light To Fall" at Élan Fine Arts in Rockland, Maine through November 23. www.elanfinearts.com.

  • Pam Lins, adjunct faculty, School of Art, has an installation at Silo through December 4. www.silonyc.com.

  • Upcoming School of Art lectures for Doug Ashford’s Intra-Disciplinary Seminar:

    • November 1 – Linda Besemer is an L.A.-based painter who experiments with acrylic paint’s plasticity and other physical properties.

    • November 8 – Jose Esteban Munoz is an Associate Professor of Performance Studies at NYU who is interested in Latino studies, queer theory, critical race theory, global mass cultures, performance art, and film and video.

    • November 15 – Kendell Geers is a Belgium-based artist and writer who examines the proliferation of violence in the mass media and how images of violence have been made banal through media-centric methods of representation.

    • November 29 – Martha Rosler is an artist working in video, photo-text, installation, and performance. She has lectured extensively all over the world and has published numerous books. A retrospective of her work has been shown in five European cities and in New York at the New Museum and the ICP.

Lectures are free and open to the public.
Hewitt, Room 207, 7pm artschool@cooper.edu for more information.

Lectures and Public Programs

  • The Green Fairy: Absinthe and the Culture of Decadence
    David Weir, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Cooper Union Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
    Lecture
    Tuesday, November 1, 6:30 p.m.
    Wollman Auditorium 51 Astor Place, 8th Street between Third and Fourth Avenues
    Free

Absinthe (the Green Fairy, la Fée Verte) has a romantic history like no other drink. This pale green alcoholic liqueur fueled and inspired the poets and artists of late 19th and early 20th century Europe. It is impossible to imagine painters like Toulouse Lautrec, Degas, Manet, and Van Gogh or writers like Verlaine, Rimbaud, Joyce, and Hemingway without the elaborate ritual that accompanied this beverage. No other drink has aroused such opposition as this wormwood-based beverage that was held responsible for all manner of crime, degeneration, sexual license and degeneracy. David Weir, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at The Cooper Union.

  • Pure Visionaries: Artists on the Spectrum
    Exhibition and symposium
    Reception: November 3, 6-8pm
    The Great Hall Gallery, 7 East 7th Street at Third Avenue
    Exhibition: November 3-23
    The Great Hall Gallery
    Hours: Monday–Friday, 11am–7pm, Saturday, 11am–5pm, closed Sunday
    Symposium: Friday, November 4, 9:00am–3:30pm
    The Great Hall

Pure Visionaries is a celebration of the cultural achievements of people on the autism spectrum. This historic event will feature a symposium along with an internationally curated exhibition of artwork created by emerging and established contemporary artists who have autism. The symposium will feature several speakers on the subject of autism, including scientist and writer Dr. Temple Grandin. Temple’s mother Eustacia Cutler will discuss her long awaited memoir Thorn in My Pocket. In addition, Clara Park the acclaimed writer of Exiting Nirvana: A Daughters Life with Autism, and internationally renowned artist Jessica Park will be speaking at the symposium. For more information and registration please contact Pamala Rogers at 212-366-4263 or e-mail: purevisionarts@aol.com

  • Edward Hopper’s New York
    Avis Berman
    November 7, 6:30pm
    Lecture and book signing
    Wollman Auditorium
    51 Astor Place, 8th Street between Third and Fourth Avenues
    Free

American artist Edward Hopper (1882-1967) lived in New York City from 1905 until his death. He made the physical face of New York the focus of seven decades of paintings, drawings, watercolors, and prints. This illustrated lecture illuminates Hopper and his work by exploring what his New York is—and is not. An independent writer and art historian, Avis Berman has written extensively on painting, sculpture, photography, design, and museum history for numerous magazines, newspapers, anthologies, and exhibition catalogues. She is also the author of Rebels on Eighth Street: Juliana Force and the Whitney Museum of American Art; James McNeill Whistler; and Edward Hopper’s New York. Since 2001, she has directed the oral history program for the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation. Recently, she edited and completed the memoirs of the curator and critic Katharine Kuh (1904–1994) for publication in January 2006.

  • PEN American Center presents STATE OF EMERGENCY: 
    Readings Against Torture, Arbitrary Detention & Extraordinary Rendition with Edward Albee, Paul Auster, Sandra Cisneros, Don DeLillo, Dave Eggers, Martin Espada, Philip Gourevitch, Jessica Hagedorn, Heidi Julavits, Nicole Krauss, Rick Moody, Walter Mosley, Grace Paley, Emma Reverter, Salman Rushdie, Marcha Southgate and Colson Whitehead
    November 8, 7:00pm
    The Great Hall, 7 East 7th Street at Third Avenue
    Free

PEN American Center presents its second State of Emergency event, a special evening of readings in opposition to current United States policies on the treatment of detainees in this country and abroad. A stellar group of writers will come together to read and bring national attention to abusive government policies including torture, arbitrary detention, and extraordinary rendition. This event is free and open to the public. Seating is by general admission on a first-come, first-served basis. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. Donations will be accepted for the PEN Writers Fund to help writers, translators, editors, and agents affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. For more information, please call PEN at 212/334-1660, ext. 107 or visit PEN’s Web site at www.pen.org. This program is co-sponsored by The Cooper Union Office of Continuing Education and Public Programs.

  • Memories of Survival
    The heroic story and extraordinary artwork of Holocaust survivor Esther Nisenthal Krinitz
    Lecture, book signing and short film
    November 9, 6:30 pm
    The Great Hall, 7 East 7th Street at Third Avenue
    Free

Memories of Survival, a stunning and powerful book, chronicles the remarkable journey of Holocaust survivor Esther Nisenthal Krinitz during World War II. Heralded by The Horn Book, Booklist and Kirkus Reviews, the latter describes "Memories of Survival" as "an amazing series of 36 beautifully and delicately embroidered scenes of a Polish girl’s escape…a remarkable achievement and a must for any collection." Beginning with her idyllic life as a farm girl growing up in Poland, and following her harrowing escape from the Nazis, the impressive tapestries use vivid colors and striking details to tell a story of bravery and courage. Meet Esther through a short film by acclaimed film director Lawrence Kasdan and a lecture and book signing by Bernice Steinhardt, Esther’s daughter and co-author of "Memories of Survival." Co-sponsored by The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art.

  • The Silent Casualties: Civilian Victims of War
    Howard Zinn and Dr. Gino Strada
    Lecture
    November 13, 7pm
    The Great Hall, 7 East 7th Street at Third Avenue

Historian Howard Zinn (author of A People's History of the United States) and Dr. Gino Strada (an Italian surgeon) will speak on the civilian casualties of land mines.

  • On Directing Opera
    Jonathan Miller
    November 14, 7pm
    Lecture
    The Great Hall, 7 East 7th Street at Third Avenue
    $10/$5 students and seniors

  • Benjamin Menschel Lecture: Creating Black Americans
    Nell Irvin Painter
    Lecture and book signing
    November 15, 6:30pm
    The Great Hall, 7 East 7th Street at Third Avenue
    Free

Eminent historian Nell Irvin Painter blends a vivid narrative based on the latest research in African-American history with an array of artwork by African-American artists to add new depth to our understanding of black history. Nell Irvin Painter is the Edward Professor of American History at Princeton. She is the author of Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol, and Standing at Armageddon: The United States 1877-1919.

  • Recombinant Urbanism: Conceptual Modeling in Architecture, Urban Design, and City Theory
    David Grahame Shane
    Panel discussion and book signing
    November 17, 6:30pm
    The Great Hall, 7 East 7th Street at Third Avenue
    $10/free to Cooper community & Architectural League members

A lecture by Grahame Shane, Visiting Professor; responses by Dennis Adams, The School of Art at the Cooper Union: Diana Agrest, The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union, Brian McGrath, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation; Anthony Vidler, The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union; followed by a book-signing. Presented as part of The Architectural League of New York's "Architecture and Cities" series, co-sponsored by The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture. www.archleague.org.

  • The Stone Fields
    Courtney Brkic
    Reading and book signing
    November 29, 6:30pm
    Wollman Auditorium, 51 Astor Place, 8th Street between Third and Fourth Avenues
    Free

Courtney Brkic’s memoir of her work with refugees in Srebrenica and of excavating mass graves that resulted from the horrors of genocide in Bosnia is an agonizing account of a failure of civilization. Ms. Brkic, a former Creative Writing teacher in The Cooper Union Continuing Education Department, is also the author of Stillness and Other Stories.

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Did You Know?

  • The Cooper Union’s Immigrant Engineer Re-Training Program was the cover story for the September issue of engineering magazine PRISM. The six-page article highlights how the program is impacting the lives of America’s recent émigrés in the field of engineering.

  • On October 10, The Cooper Union joined with Artforum and Bookforum magazines to host a benefit for victims of Hurricane Katrina. The Louisiana rock band, Loup Garou, set an exciting tone and Chris Rose, columnist for The New Orleans Times-Picayune was the MC. Donna Tartt, Robert Stone, Roy Blount, JR., Valerie Martin, Nancy Lemann, John Barry and Mike Tidwell – all writers with a Louisiana or Mississippi connection – read from their works. The evening raised $9,000 for the Acadiana Arts Council.

  • Three new search engines have been added to the Cooper Union Library Visual Resources Collection site: Maps, Exhibition Catalogues and Digital Images. You can borrow maps from the Visual Resources Collection, the exhibition catalogues are for library-use only, and the digital images may be studied online or downloaded for educational purposes only. For more information, contact Thomas Micchelli, Visual Resources Librarian.

  • New image databases are available at The Cooper Union Library; ARTstor, Corbis and the recently expanded AP Multimedia Archive. See links on the library Web site under Visual Resources, Art, Architecture, and What's New. Contact Julie Castelluzzo for more information.

  • The Cooper Union Women’s Volleyball team won its first game against the College of Staten Island on October 13.

  • Cooper Union Library staff member Dale Perreault's play "National Skin" was performed as part of INFILTRAGE, an evening of one-acts at the Flea Theater in Tribeca on July 11 and 12.

  • David Shapiro, adjunct faculty, Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, participated in "Howl: Celebrating Columbia's Beats" at the West End Bar on Broadway. Shapiro shared his recollections and tributes, as did Ann Douglas, Jerry Kisslinger, Allen Tobias, Michael Golston, Harry Bauld, Joyce Johnson, David Lehman, David Gawarecki, Nathaniel Farrell, and others.

  • Cooper Union Library accounts expire, usually in September each year. This is to ensure that the information in your account is accurate. Stop by the Circulation Desk to check the status of your account.

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