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  • The third event featured in The Cooper Union Dialogue Series, hosted by Cooper Union President George Campbell Jr. and former Governor Mario M. Cuomo, was a great success. On September 25, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and journalist Tom Brokaw engaged in a thought-provoking conversation on the stage of the historic Great Hall. The dialogue explored a wide range of topics and, in particular, the mayor focused on finding solutions to the national challenges of education, poverty and the environment. The event was widely covered in such New York newspapers as The New York Times, The New York Post and The New York Sun, as well as broadcast outlets such as NY1 and WNBC.
  • Many thanks to Trustee Richard Lincer, son of alumnus Maxwell Lincer (CE'42), and his wife Ellen for hosting a brunch for fellow alumni in New Jersey to meet President Campbell and learn about the new academic building.

Congratulations

  • The American Center Foundation announced the 2007 recipients of the Fund for Arts Research awards, which were given to 29 curators and other arts professionals. Of the 29 worldwide recipients, six were graduates of the renowned De Appel Curatorial Training Program founded by Dean Saskia Bos.
  • Whitfield Lovell (A'82) has received the prestigious 2007 MacArthur Fellowship.
  • Toby Cumberbatch (Eng. fac.) has received two EPA P3 grants for two projects, "Solar Lighting for Remote Rural Communities" and "The Development of an Indigenous Fluoride Filter."
  • James Paul Dallas (AR'06) received the prestigious R.M. Schindler Architects in Residence Scholarship Grant, selected in a worldwide competition. This is the highest honor of its kind awarded by the European Union and the Republic of Austria.
  • Anthony Deen (A'82) has joined TPG Architecture, LLP as design director. Having previously led a number of large scale architectural design projects, Deen will be leading the expansion of British Airway's Terminal 7 at JFK Airport and the redevelopment of West 15th Street for the Chelsea Market.
  • Cynthia Hartling (A'84/Eng. Dean's Office) received a fellowship to Jentel Art Residency in Wyoming this past June/July.
  • Morris Sato Studio (Michael Morris [AR'89], Yoshiko Sato [AR'89]) received the Commendable Achievement Award from Architectural Lighting's 2007 Light & Architecture Design Awards Program.
  • Nicholas Schiloff (BAE'07) is a recipient of a ULI Kenneth M. Good Graduate Student Fellowship for a master of science in real estate development at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.

publications, presentations and major exhibitions

  • Sue Allen (AR'70), Around Mount Hood: 12 Months-12 Directions, in group exhibition, Print Arts Northwest, September 2007; Suite Sixteen, in group exhibition "Gadzooks! Amazing Books by Northwest Artists," Maryhill Museum of Art, July-November 15, 2007.
  • Stanley Allen (AR'81), Houses at Sagaponac, New York Times, July 15, 2007.
  • Betsy Alwin (Art fac.), group exhibition, Carriage House, East Islip.
  • Doug Ashford (Art fac.), Who Cares, book review, Fuse Magazine.
  • Shigeru Ban (AR 84), in "Material Resurrection," Domus, July/August.
  • Kevin Bone (Arch. fac.), "Water-Landscape-Structure," City College School of Architecture, October 25, 2007.
  • Robert Bordo (Art fac.), solo exhibition, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin.
  • Saskia Bos (Art dean), "Art Education Today," Frieze Art Fair, London, October 13, 2007.
  • Jiri Boudnik (AR'97), "Czech Who Aided September 11th Rescue Efforts Remembers the Event Six Years On."
  • Reuben Cox (Art fac.), solo exhibition, Bespoke Gallery, NYC.
  • Toby Cumberbatch (Eng. fac.), Caitlin Martusewicz (AR'09), Joe Addo (Accra), "Why Abandon the Mud Hut?," African Architecture Today, The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, June 5-8, 2007.
  • Peggy Deamer (AR'77), "The Home Front," Architect's Newspaper, September 5.
  • Jean-Ulrick Désert (AR'85), Infinite Island: Contemporary Caribbean Art, Brooklyn Museum, NYC, August 31, 2007-January 27, 2008.
  • Elizabeth Diller (AR'79), keynote speaker, 96th ACSA Annual Meeting "Seeking the City: Visionaries on the Margins", Houston TX, March 27-30, 2008.
  • Francesca DiMattio (A'03), solo exhibition, LAXART.
  • Nelson Fernando Figallo (AR'03), Sexo the Clown, self published, 2007.
  • David Gersten (AR'91/Arch. fac.), "Spaces of Empathy and Ethics," Reconciling Poetics and Ethics in Architecture conference, McGill University, September 13-15, 2007.
  • Alexander Gorlin (AR'78), in "The Next New York", Architect's Newspaper, August 1.
  • T.J. Gottesdiener (AR'79), in "Tall Buildings: Topped/Tapped Out", Architectural Record, August.
  • Cynthia Hartling (A'84/Eng. Dean's Office), solo exhibition, Janet Kurnatowski, Brooklyn, NY, Marcy 2007; reviews in the Brooklyn Rail: "Cynthia Hartling" and "Brooklyn Dispatches."
  • Sharon Hayes (Art fac.), panelist, "9 Scripts of War," The New School, NYC.
  • Dan Hoffman (AR'76), "From the Ground Up: Modernism Away from the Center," Journal of Architectural Education, September 2007.
  • Matthew Monahan (A'94), solo exhibition, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
  • Toshiko Mori (AR'76), participant, "Women in Modernism: Making Places in Architecture," MoMA, October 25, 2007.
  • Peter Nadin (Art fac.), First Mark, El Primer Trazo, Charta, 2007.
  • Lothar Osterburg (Art fac.), The Set Up, Nicole Fiacco Gallery, September 15-October 20, 2007.
  • Ysrael Seinuk (Arch. fac.), guest of honor, "Meet the Architects & Engineering" grand networking event, Professional Women in Construction, August 21, 2007.
  • Adi Shamir (AR'85), debate participant "Politics, Public, and Design," Columbia University, September 10, 2007.
  • David Shapiro (Arch. fac.), Burning Interiors: David Shapiro's Poetry and Poetics, edited by Thomas Fink and Joseph Lease, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
  • Will Villalongo (A'99/Art fac.), group exhibition, Dumbo Art Center, NYC; panelist, "Voces: WildEye!" El Museo del Barrio, NYC.
  • David Weir (H&SS fac.), Joyce and the Italians, Casa Italiana, NYC, October 4, 2007.
  • Mark West (AR'80), "C.A.S.T. Architecture," Reconciling Poetics and Ethics in Architecture conference, McGill University, September 13-15, 2007.

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giving to cooper union

  • The legendary designer and photographer Henry Wolf, through his estate, has made a $1 million bequest to fund a full tuition scholarship in perpetuity along with a visiting photographer in the School of Art.
  • Cooper Union also received generous bequests from Hanna Hale (A'44) and Vincent Rampino.
  • The Alumni Roof Terrace Campaign had another extraordinary month as alumni from across the country came out in droves to support the campaign. We're thrilled to announce that Janet and Howard Solot (ME’59) have become our 150th Alumni Roof Terrace supporters! Contributions now total almost $1 million. Please remember that the final pledge payment date has been extended and all pledges are now payable through June 30, 2012—a full five years—so mark your legacy in stone and secure a space for your name on the Terrace. For more information, contact Richard Aab at 212-353-4171 or raab@cooper.edu or visit Give to Cooper Union.
  • The Alumni on Wall Street Campaign is still going strong, having raised more than $140,000! Co-chairs Ray Falci (ME'86) and Larry Ng (EE'78) as well as charter members Philip Weisberg (EE'89) and Eric Hirschhorn (ME'89) want to remind you that all alumni in financial services have the opportunity to participate in this unique naming opportunity in the new academic building. If you are interested in finding out more, please contact Richard Aab at 212-353-4171 or raab@cooper.edu.
  • Thus far in FY08, the college has received seven IRA rollover gifts from members of the Cooper Union community. The gifts have come directly from alumni and friends' qualified Individual Retirement Accounts. Since the IRA rollover provision became law in August 2006, Cooper Union has received dozens of contributions in support of the Annual Fund, the New Academic Building Fund and the endowment. The new law permits individuals who are age 70½ and older to rollover up to $100,000 per year from an IRA directly to a charity now through December 31, 2007. For more about the new law please visit: http://www.cooper.edu/administration/development/ira.html

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Don't Miss

General Interest

  • Each month, President Campbell hosts the President's Roundtable to give Cooper Union students the opportunity to engage in an informal dialogue over lunch with distinguished alumni or friends of the institution. The Roundtable series has been enormously successful in providing a platform for the exchange of ideas and giving students a chance to hear success stories from individuals they admire. Guests have included Trustee and Newmark Knight Frank CEO Jeffrey Gural, President Emerita of MoMA Agnes Gund, chairman of Rudin Management Co. Jack Rudin, orthopedic surgeon and director of the Nicholas Institute of Sports Medicine and Athletics Trauma Dr. Stephen Nicholas, sculptor-turned-engineer Chuck Hoberman (A'79) and Trustee and CEO of Helicos BioSciences Stanley Lapidus (EE'70).

    On November 20, Kevin Burke (EE'72) will join Dr. Campbell for the Student Roundtable discussion scheduled at noon. On December 4, Linda Sanford will be the guest speaker. Students interested in participating should contact the student ad-chairs in their respective schools to sign up.

    Kevin Burke is chairman, president, and chief executive officer of Consolidated Edison, Inc., the holding company, and chairman and chief executive officer of its largest subsidiary, Consolidated Edison Company of New York, the regulated utility. More »

    Linda Sanford leads the strategy for IBM's internal transformation to the industry's premier on demand business. In this role, Ms. Sanford is responsible for working across IBM to transform core business processes, create an IT infrastructure to support those processes, and help create a culture that recognizes the value that on demand leadership can bring to IBM. More »

  • The Albert Nerken School of Engineering, the Professional Engineering Societies, and the Center for Career Development will host our 15th Annual Engineering Career Fair on Tuesday, October 16, 2007 at noon in Wollman Lounge and the first floor of the Engineering Building.
  • Juan Sanchez (A'77), professor of art, Hunter College/CUNY, will discuss art graduate school on October 11, 2007 at 6:00 pm in the Menschel Room. Professor Sanchez will offer insight into the M.F.A. application process, including the practical methods of completing a competitive application, how to prepare for an in-person interview and what to expect after graduation. Students and recent alumni are invited to attend the presentation and discussion. This program is sponsored by the Center for Career Development.
  • New Academic Building Educational Opportunities
    Fall 2007 Lecture series

    Tuesday 10/2/07 Structures lecture (Mueser Rutledge)
    12:00 - 2:00, Wollman Auditorium

    Friday 10/5/07 Foundation Tour II (Sciame)
    3:00 meet in Foundation Building lobby

    Tuesday 10/23/07 Cogeneration lecture (SourceOne, Cooper Union)
    12:00 - 2:00 Wollman Auditorium

    Friday 10/26/07 Cogeneration tour TBD (SourceOne, Cooper Union)
    3:00 Meet in Foundation Building lobby

  • Lois Dodd: Maine Master
    Wednesday, November 7th, 6:30 pm, film premiere
    The National Academy Museum is proud to premiere this documentary film about the life and art of academician Lois Dodd (A'48). Admission is free. Reservations required. http://www.nationalacademy.org/

Alumni Events

  • The Cooper Union Alumni Association's 7th Annual Art Auction & Casino Night will be held in the Foundation Building on October 20, 2007 from 8pm until midnight. The silent auction will feature donated artwork by recent Cooper Union alumni, specialty items and one-of-a-kind experiences.
  • On Monday, October 29, 2007 a regional alumni reception will be held in Los Angeles, CA, at Shutters on the Beach. President George Campbell Jr., Vice President Ronni Denes and Director of Alumni Relations Susan Moyle Lynch will greet alumni, parents and friends and bring them up to date on exciting directions at Cooper Union.
  • John Menick (A'98), CU @ Lunch with Cooper Union Alumni, Tuesday, Oct 2, 12:00 pm, The Green Room, behind the stage in the Great Hall. http://www.johnmenick.com.
  • Cooper Union Alumni Day, held at Ringwood State Park, Ringwood, NJ, on September 29, 2007, attracted 120 alumni, family members and friends. Attendees enjoyed a special group tour of Ringwood Manor, the former summer estate of Abram and Sarah Amelia Cooper Hewitt, and gathered for picnics on the grounds. Nostalgia seekers hiked the historic carriage road leading to the former Green Camp and reminisced about their experiences.

Upcoming Lectures and Public Programs

  • Garry Wills: Head and Heart: American Christianities
    Wednesday, October 10, 6:30 pm, free lecture and book signing, The Great Hall
    Garry Wills is an adjunct professor at Northwestern University who has written more than 30 books, including studies of George Washington, Richard Nixon, the Kennedy family, Ronald Reagan and religion in America. His most recent novel, Head and Heart: American Christianities, explores the struggle within American Christianity from the key movements and personalities that have transformed America's religious landscape to the forces of creationism and the anti-abortion fundamentalists. Wills argues that the conflict is between the head and the heart: between reason and emotion, enlightenment and evangelism. Why has this been so? How has the tension between the two poles played out, and with what consequences, over the past 400 years? How "Christian" is America, after all?
  • Robert A.M. Stern: Residential Towers and New Works in New York City
    Thursday, October 11, 7:00 pm, free lecture, The Great Hall
    Robert A.M. Stern is dean of the Yale School of Architecture, as well as a practicing architect, teacher and writer. He is a fellow of the American Institute of Architects and received the AIA New York Chapter's Medal of Honor in 1984 and the Chapter's President's Award in 2001. He received the Athena Award from the Congress for the New Urbanism and the Board of Directors' Honor from the Institute of Classical Architecture and Classical America in 2007. As founder and senior partner of Robert A. M. Stern Architects, he personally directs the design of each of the firm's projects.

    Robert A. M. Stern Architects is comprised of 300 architects, landscape architects, interior designers and supporting staff. Over a 38-year history, the firm has established an international reputation with wide experience in residential, commercial and institutional work. As the practice has diversified, its geographical scope has widened to include current projects in Europe, Asia, South America and throughout the United States. Stern is also a member of the AD 100—Architectural Digest's selected list of the top 100 architects and interior designers who are working today. The lecture, which is hosted by The Cooper Union, is co-sponsored by Architectural Digest and the Municipal Art Society.
  • Alphabet: An Exhibition of Hand-Drawn Lettering and Experimental Typography
    Thursday, October 11, 6-8 p.m. (Opening reception), free exhibition, The Herb Lubalin Center, Houghton Gallery
    Focusing on an ordinary subject that we see each day, Alphabet presents 26 letters as more than just shapes for conveying information. Hosted by The Herb Lubalin Center of Design and Typography at The Cooper Union (October 11-27), the traveling exhibition features the work of 51 artists and designers and their inventive ways of interpreting the alphabet, ranging from graceful and polished to witty and subversive. The 63 alphabets featured in Alphabet were created by artists in North America, Europe and Asia, representing works from well-known typographers such as Ed Fella and Ken Barber to rising artists such as Sweden's Hjärta Smärta and Andrew Jeffrey Wright of Philadelphia's Space 1026.

    October 11-27, 2007. Weekdays 11 a.m.- 7 p.m., Saturday, 12 p.m.-5 p.m., closed on Sundays.
  • Daniel Berrigan: Prayer for the Morning Headlines
    Monday, October 15, 6:30 pm, free lecture and book signing, The Great Hall
    Nobel Peace Prize-nominee and Jesuit priest Daniel Berrigan will read from his new book of poems, Prayer for the Morning Headlines. During the event, Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman and others will join Berrigan onstage at The Great Hall. Noted historian Howard Zinn heralds Berrigan's poetry as "life and death, the prayer that comes with commitment, the hope that comes with resistance, the visions of a world where peace and justice prevail."
  • Atina Grossmann: Jews, Germans, and Allies: Close Encounters in Occupied Germany
    Thursday, October 18, 6:30 pm, free lecture and book signing, Wollman Auditorium
    Atina Grossmann, prolific writer, renowned scholar and professor of history at The Cooper Union, will talk about issues examined in her most recent book, Jews, Germans, and Allies: Close Encounters in Occupied Germany. Grossman's previous publications include Crimes of War: Guilt and Denial in the Twentieth Century, with Omer Bartov and Mary Nolan, and When Biology Became Destiny: Women in Weimar and Nazi Germany, with Renate Bridenthal and Marion Kaplan.
  • Caroline Weber: Queen of Fashion
    Thursday, October 25, 6:30 pm, free lecture and book signing, Wollman Auditorium
    Caroline Weber, an associate professor of French at Barnard college, Columbia University, lives in New York City. Her book, Queen of Fashion, has received rave reviews from The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Entertainment Weekly and The New York Times Style Magazine.

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Did You Know?

  • The Senior Etiquette Luncheon took place on September 25th at the National Arts Club. Consultants from The Madison Group discussed business etiquette and offered suggestions on how to feel confident in any professional situation. This annual event was sponsored by the Center for Career Development.

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