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September 3, 2005
To: The Cooper Union Community
From: George Campbell Jr.
This is the time of year when
I always enjoy welcoming students and faculty back to The
Cooper Union for another exciting and stimulating academic
year – this one, our 147th. This time, however, the joy of
a new beginning is mitigated by the shock and grief wrought
by Hurricane Katrina, not only the natural disaster with the
immeasurable losses it caused, but also by the failure of
the nation to respond effectively. It’s particularly
grievous that the public sector at the federal level with
the responsibility and the capability to mobilize resources
to address national catastrophes has been so slow to
respond, exacerbating the human suffering.
The important question for
all of us now is how we, in the private sector, can
contribute to the long term relief and recovery effort and
assist those who have managed to survive this incredible
human disaster. Of course, we can all contribute money to
the Red Cross or the many relief agencies that are providing
food, water, shelter and other help to those in need, and I
would encourage you to do that directly. I believe that is
more expedient than Cooper Union organizing and managing a
collective relief fund as an intermediary. There are also
relief groups taking donations of goods, such as clothing
and non-perishable food and trucking them directly to the
Gulf Coast.
I also believe that there are
other ways to contribute, ways that capitalize on your
special knowledge and skills that might be equally or even
more useful over the long term than money. For example, you
may be able to volunteer your skills at one of the
professional societies or relief agencies mobilized to
support the recovery. You can check the web sites of the
societies and agencies for suggestions. A particularly
pertinent example of this kind of contribution that comes to
mind is the work of alumnus, Shigeru Ban, who has been a
pioneer in the development of very low cost, rapidly
deployable housing. His work has been invaluable in a number
of humanitarian projects.
At the institutional level,
in addition to reaching out to our own students from the
affected areas, The Cooper Union is contacting colleges and
universities that will not be able to function for at least
a semester to offer temporary positions for students in
architecture, art or engineering – of course, with full
tuition scholarships. We have already identified several
candidates. We’re also collaborating with state and
national associations of universities to develop a
coordinated effort to bring our particular expertise and
available resources to bear on this tragedy.
The Cooper Union has
historically maintained an uncommon tradition of public
engagement and civic responsibility. The human suffering in
the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina presents us with an
uncommon need to carry forward that tradition.
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The Cooper Union
welcomes three new deans this fall:
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Saskia Bos,
the Artistic and Managing Director of the De Appel
Center for Contemporary Art, has been chosen as Dean of
The School of Art at Cooper Union, effective October
2005. Her selection comes after an international search
launched in September 2004. She replaces former dean of
the School of Art and Cooper Union alumnus Robert
Rindler, who announced his resignation in 2004. For more
than two decades, Bos has served as Artistic and
Managing Director of the De Appel Centre for
Contemporary Art, located in the heart of Amsterdam. Bos,
one of the most important figures in the field of
contemporary art in Europe today, was instrumental in
developing the De Appel Centre into a well-established
global network of art centers, museums and other
exhibition venues. She led and planned the museum’s
exhibitions in addition to carrying full artistic and
financial responsibility. Founder of the De Appel’s
Curatorial Training Program, Bos organized and
implemented the program’s curriculum. Bos
studied Art History at the Universities of Groningen and
Amsterdam in the Netherlands. She also received training
in History and Media Theory. For the full press release
please visit http://www.cooper.edu/news/newslink.html.
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Mitchell L.
Lipton has been
promoted to Dean of Admissions and Records. Lipton
replaces Richard Bory, who
retired after working at The Cooper Union for 18 years.
In 1997, Lipton joined The Cooper Union as Admissions
Representative and was promoted to Associate Dean in
2001. As Associate Dean, Lipton introduced a number of innovations in Cooper Union’s
admissions process including the on-line application
process, CD View Book and an improved student
information system. He was instrumental in establishing
the on-campus visitation programs for prospective
students and developing a strategy for new recruitment
territories, which have yielded a significant increase
in visibility for the College. At the national and state
level, Lipton is active in a myriad of academic-based
organizations that address important topics facing
higher education. Currently, he is the Co-Chair of the
Local Arrangements Committee for The College Board's
National Forum, a member of The New York State Advisory
Panel of The College Board, Vice President for
Professional Development and Planning for The New York
State Association for College Admission Counseling and a
member of The Legislative Forum
Steering Committee of The College Board. Lipton
graduated cum laude from SUNY Binghamton with a B.A. and
later earned his M.P.A at New York University’s Robert
F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.
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Professor
Peter Buckley has
been appointed Acting Dean of the Faculty of Humanities
and Social Sciences. Professor Buckley is a
full-time member of the Faculty of Humanities and Social
Sciences since 1985 and currently is Associate Professor
of History. His research interests
are in forms of urban commercial culture. He has
recently completed a book on New York City’s culture
and politics in the first half of the 19th
century and contributed to the recent Cambridge
History of the American Theatre. He has taught
history at Princeton University and Pratt Institute and
is widely published in his field of scholarship. At the
college, he is the unofficial historian of The Cooper
Union and is at work on a book that surveys the history
of education, which he expects to complete in time
for Cooper Union’s sesquicentennial anniversary. While
serving The Cooper Union with dedication, commitment and
distinction since 1985, he has served as chair of
Faculty of Humanities Curriculum Committee for five
years, as the Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty’s
representative to the Architecture Faculty for the same
period, and currently serves on the institution-wide
planning committee for the new academic building.
Professor Buckley was educated at Sussex University in
England and SUNY Stony Brook
and is a Fellow of the New York Institute for the
Humanities at NYU.
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Awards
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Service to the School
Awards – This year’s annual Cooper Union Alumni
Association Service to the School Awards were given to
the following seniors for their commitment to the
college: Kiel Scott (A’05), Daren Rogers
(AR’05), Natalie
Bazile (AR’05), and Alexis
Lenza (CE’05).
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The American
Institute of Architects New York Chapter
presented Toshiko Mori (AR’76) with
their Medal of Honor and Arthur
Rosenblatt (AR’52) with a posthumous Harry
Rutkins Award.
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The
Lotos Club Foundation awarded Laila Seewang
(AR’05) the Burt L. Stern Architectural Award.
Publications
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In June, Professor
Maren Stange contributed the entry "Richard
Wright and Photography" to the Richard Wright
Encyclopedia forthcoming from Greenwood Press and
presented two lectures in Paris: "Documenting the
Private," a keynote address at the University of
Paris, and "Visual Culture in International
Contexts" at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en
Sciences Sociales.
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Professor
Brian Swann
has published a book of poems entitled Autumn Road. For
more information please visit http://ohiostatepress.org/.
milestones
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Congratulations
to Robert Rindler (AR’70), former Dean
of the School of Art at the Cooper
Union, who has been named fifth president of the
Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design.
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The new
Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin,
designed by Professor Peter Eisenman, opened in
May.
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Congratulations
to Dr. Melissa Micou who has been appointed to
the Engineering faculty as assistant professor of
Mechanical Engineering.
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Katherine Apolito will be the
Administrative Assistant to the Dean of the Faculty of
Humanities and Social Sciences. Apolito comes to Cooper
Union from the Conservatory of Music at Purchase where
she was Assistant to the Director. Previously, she
served as an Administrative Assistant in the Department
of International Education at SUNY, Albany. Katherine
earned her Bachelor of Arts from SUNY, Albany.
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The Office of Admissions and Records
is pleased to announce the appointment of Susan E. Cohen
to the position of Assistant Director of Admissions,
effective Monday, August 15th. Cohen most recently
worked for the TERI College Access Center at the Boston
Public Library providing low income/first generation
college applicants with admissions and financial aid
counseling. She has also worked for the American
Institutes for Research in Washington D.C., assisting
the Ohio State Department of Education in creating
assessments to comply with federal legislation. Cohen
earned her B.S. in Education from Cornell University and
a Ed.M in Higher Education Administration from Harvard
University.
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Gerald Fetner joins the Department of
External Affairs as Director of Institutional Giving,
effective Tuesday, September 6. Fetner comes to Cooper
Union from Thirteen/WNET, where he was Director of
Foundation and Government Grants. He brings a long
history of successful institutional development in
academe, having held positions including: Associate
University Dean For Research at CUNY and Director of
Foundation Relations at both Columbia University and the
University of Chicago. He earned his bachelor’s and
master’s degrees from Queens College and his Ph.D.
from Brown University. He is the author of two books:
Immersed in Great Affairs: Allan Nevins and the Heroic
Age of American History (State University of New York
Press, 2004) and Ordered Liberty: Legal Reform in the
Twentieth Century (Alfred A. Knopf, 1983).
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Milton Yuen was hired as Controller in
the Office of Business Affairs at the beginning of
August. Yuen earned his Bachelor of Science degree in
Accounting at NYU Stern School of Business and his Juris
Doctor degree at Fordham University. His prior
experience includes positions held at Deliotte &
Touche, LLP and Ernest & Young, LLP.
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The Cooper Union is pleased to welcome
back Hans Haacke, Professor Emeritus, who will be
teaching sculpture.
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The Cooper Union would like to welcome
School of Art visiting artists for the fall semester:
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Gregg Bordowitz (Visiting Artist
in Sculpture) has shown at the Guggenheim New York,
the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of
Modern Art, and Centre d'Art Contemporain de
Grenoble. His writings have been published in
Artforum, October, and The Village Voice. He has
taught at The School of the Art Institute of
Chicago.
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Louis Cameron (Adjunct Instructor,
Advanced Drawing/Drawing I) Since earning an MFA at
Tyler School of Art, Temple University, in 1997,
Cameron has participated in the Artist-In-Residence
program at the Studio Museum in Harlem, has
exhibited internationally, and been in several
museum shows. He has taught at the University of
Southern California, the Rhode Island School of
Design, and Brooklyn College.
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Matthew Cusick (Visiting Artist
Advanced Drawing) graduated from The Cooper Union
with a BFA in 1993. He has exhibited in New York,
Los Angeles, and San Francisco. He is currently
represented by Kent Gallery in New York City.
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Nancy Davenport (Visiting Artist
in Advanced Photography) has exhibited
internationally in Strangers: The First ICP
Triennial of Photography and Video. Davenport is a
core faculty member of the International Center for
Photography/Bard MFA Program and teaches in the
School of Visual Arts graduate program in New York.
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Maria Elena Gonzalez (Visiting
Artist in Sculpture) has exhibited at museums
worldwide and presented public art projects in Los
Angeles, New York and Pittsburgh. She was a
recipient of the Prix de Rome from the American
Academy in Rome in 2003-04 and has been awarded
grants from the New York State Council for the Arts,
the Penny McCall Foundation, the Cuban Artist Fund,
Creative Capital, the Joan Mitchell Foundation, the
Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Louis Comfort
Tiffany Foundation, Anonymous Was A Woman (1997) and
the CINTAS Foundation (1989 & 1994).
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Katie Merz (Adjunct Instructor in
Drawing I)
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Carrie Moyer (Visiting Artist in
Advanced Painting) has shown at the Weatherspoon
Museum and Palm Beach ICA and has been in group
exhibitions across the country. She is also one-half
of the public art project, Dyke Action Machine!
Moyer has taught at Rutgers University and Tyler
School of Art.
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Jennifer Todd Reeves (Adjunct
Instructor in Film II) is a New York based filmmaker
whose work has been shown internationally. She
founded Sparky Pictures, Inc., a production company,
in 2004. She has an MFA from University of
California/San Diego, and is a Visiting Professor in
film at Bard College.
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Zach Rockhill (Adjunct Instructor
in Foundation Color)
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Scott Santoro (Visiting Artist,
Advanced Design) is the founder of Worksight, a
graphic design studio located in lower Manhattan,
which he created after receiving his MFA from
Cranbrook Academy. He has served as both treasurer
and vice-president of the American Institute of
Graphic Arts (AIGA NY Chapter), and has lectured for
art and design organizations around the country and
abroad.
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Amy Sillman (Visiting Artist in
Advanced Painting) has shown widely throughout the
U.S. and Europe in galleries and public spaces such
as the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New
Museum of Contemporary Art, the Brooklyn Museum of
Art, the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art and the
Santa Monica Museum. She teaches at Bard College
where she is the Co-Chair of the Painting Department
of the Milton Avery MFA Program.
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Elisabeth Subrin (Visiting Artist
in Advanced Film/Video) has exhibited in major
museums, film festivals and universities
internationally. She has received many awards for
her work, including recognition from the Los Angeles
Film Critics Association, the Black Maria Film and
Video Festival, the VIPER International Video Award
and the New England Film Festival. She has received
prestigious grants and fellowships and was a 2004-05
Rockefeller Foundation Fellow, Subrin teaches in
Harvard University's Visual and Environmental
Studies Department.
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We also welcome new professors in the
Albert Nerken School of Engineering:
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George Delagrammatikas has joined
the Mechanical Engineering faculty as a full time
assistant professor, coming to Cooper Union from California Polytechnic State University
where he was an assistant professor. He was educated
at MIT (S.B.) and received his M.S. and Ph.D. at the
University of Michigan.
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Kausik Chatterjee has joined the
full time faculty in electrical engineering as an
assistant professor. He has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute, a Master of Technology in
Nuclear Engineering from the Indian Institute of
Technology and a Bachelor of Engineering in
Electrical Engineering from Jadavpur University.
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Yong X. Gan has joined the
Mechanical Engineering faculty as a full time
assistant professor. He comes to Cooper Union from
the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Columbia
University. Gan received his Ph.D. in Mechanical
Engineering at Columbia University, M.Phil. from
Columbia University and several engineering degrees
from Beijing University of Aeronautics and
Astronautics and Hunan University.
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Welcome to the New Members of the
President's Council:
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Ivan Chermayeff is an accomplished
designer, painter, and illustrator whose work has
garnered awards from the American Institute of
Graphic Arts, the Society of Illustrators and the
Art Directors Club of New York, among many others.
He is a founding principal of Chermayeff &
Geismar, Inc., whose work was the subject of a
Cooper Union retrospective exhibit, "Designing
Over Four Decades," in 2004. He has been a
Visiting Professor at Cooper Union, UCLA, and the
Kansas City Art Institute. He has at various times
served as a director or trustee of a number of
renowned art and design institutions, including the
International Design Conference, Aspen, the
Municipal Arts Society of New York, the Museum of
Modern Art, the New School University, and the
American Institute of Graphic Arts.
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Robert F. Fox, Jr., a principal of
Cook + Fox Architects, heads the firm's "Green
Team," dedicated to the research and
development of new sustainable systems, materials
and technologies. Under his leadership, the Condé
Nast Building (the world’s first
environmentally-friendly skyscraper) became a model
of sustainable architecture, receiving awards for
Excellence in Design from the National AIA and AIA
New York State. Currently, his firm is working on
greening the approach to the rebuilding of 7 World
Trade Center and writing green guidelines for the
New York Transit Authority and New Jersey Transit.
Fox is Chairman of the New York Chapter of the U.S.
Green Building Council and the National Institute of
Architectural Education, and he is on the Board of
Governors of the Real Estate Board of New York. In
2003, he received the Urban Visionaries Award for
architecture from The Cooper Union.
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Charles Reiss (AR’65) is a
highly regarded development consultant in the real
estate industry, specializing in hospitality issues.
Previously, he was president and chief operating
officer of The Sunshine Group, a major real estate
concern, and earlier served as senior vice president
of development for the Trump Organization, where he
was responsible for the development of Trump
International Hotel and Tower in Chicago, Riverside
South, and the Gulf & Western Building in New
York. He also has held high level positions in New
York City’s planning and housing agencies.
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Neal Slavin (A’63) is an
internationally acclaimed photographer. He is well
known for his editorial work in the New York Times
Magazine and Rolling Stone. His photographs are
represented in the permanent collections of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, and the
International Center for Photography. Neal also
directed a feature length film, Focus (Paramount,
2001), starring Bill Murray and Laura Dern and
produced by Michael Bloomberg.
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Many thanks go to all the alumni,
friends, foundations, government agencies and
corporations who helped us close the fiscal year with
$22.5 million in new cash and pledges, the largest sum
ever raised by The Cooper Union in a single fiscal year.
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We also increased the fund for the new
academic building to $35.9 million, up110 percent from
$18.6 million last year. Special thanks for end of year
gifts go to Cooper Union alumnus and board member Martin
Trust (ME ‘56) and the Trust Family Foundation, who
generously pledged a second million dollars to the
building fund and to the Jacques and Natasha Gelman
Trust which pledged $1.5 million to name the Exhibition
Foyer.
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Thanks too to The City Council of the
City of New York for forecasting an additional $2
million for The Cooper Union in FY'08. This brings the
City's total commitment to Cooper Union's new academic
building to $8 million. The Council also approved a
one-time leadership gift of $15,000 to support the
Immigrant Engineer Retraining Program.
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The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation is
making a capital grant of $600,000 in support of the
renovation of the Great Hall, located in Cooper Union’s
historic Foundation Building. The Foundation anticipates
funding this commitment in four (4) equal annual
installments of $150,000, commencing in the fall of
2005.
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Over the last five years, Cooper Union’s
Charitable Gift Annuities – gifts that pay individuals
an income for life and then provide deferred support for
the college – have grown to more than $1.0 million,
thanks to generous alumni and friends.
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Six alumni have shared with Cooper
Union news of their planned bequests for the college,
representing over $4.3 million in future gifts to Cooper
Union's endowment.
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Cooper Union's planned giving
recognition society, The Society of 1859, welcomed seven
new members; Anthony Catalano (ChE'77), Thomas A. Ilijic
(ME'66), Gerald W. McNeely (A'60), John Papamarcos
(EE'41), Peter E. Schmidt (EE'60), Meyer Steinberg
(ChE'44), and Eugene Stueben (A'61).
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Annual Fund – Thanks to alumni,
parents, students, staff, faculty and friends of the
college, we raised over $2.3 million for the FY2005
Annual Fund. Thanks to everyone for their support!
Several donors attended a Donor Reception on June 2,
where they were thanked by Vice President of External
Affairs, Ronni Denes, for their contributions, and
treated to an insider’s perspective of the End-of-Year
Show by School of Architecture Associate Dean Elizabeth
O’Donnell and School of Art Acting Associate Dean, Day
Gleeson.
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Parent Giving – The revitalization
of the Parents Council, a group of parents enthusiastic
about preserving Cooper Union’s legacy, drove parent
giving up 21percent to its highest level in five years.
The Parents Council hosted the Parents Orientation
Luncheon on Tuesday, August 30 to welcome freshmen
parents to the college and encourage their involvement.
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General Interest
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This fall, the Department of
Continuing Education will offer a record number of
courses: more than 90. Among the new offerings for the
general public are knitting, pilates, and yoga; and for
professionals, Finite Element Software for Structural
Analysis, Introduction and Advanced Topics in 3D
Modeling, and Structural Steel Design Using Load and
Resistance Factored Design. The Professional Development
courses are accredited by the AIA and various state
boards of licensing. There is a workshop in
Architectural Photography as well as our regular courses
in photography (including digital photography) and
Photoshop. There are all our old favorites in painting,
drawing, collage, book arts, calligraphy and art
history. You can see the complete course listings at www.cooper.edu/ce
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Cooper Union Freshmen in the School of
Art and the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture are
encouraged to apply for the Irma Giustino Weiss
Fellowship, which provides access to the city’s
cultural life. The deadline for applications is
September 16. To apply, visit www.cooper.edu/administration/admissions/weiss.html.
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The President's Roundtable Discussion
Series, which brings leaders in many fields to talk with
interested students will next host Agnes Gund, President
Emeritus of MoMA, on September 27. Students interested
in participating must contact the student Ad-Chairs http://www.cooper.edu/admin/activities/jsc.html
in their respective schools to sign up. Seating is
limited.
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Fall
Festival/Constitution
Day will be in Peter Cooper Park from 12-2pm on
September 20.
alumni events
Looking Ahead – the early fall
will feature several exciting events for Cooper Union alumni,
including:
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Alumni Day excursion to Snug Harbor
Cultural Center on Sunday, September 25;
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A CU Alumni on Wall Street lecture
featuring Dr. Arnold J. Shapiro (ChE’71) on Thursday,
October 20. Dr. Arnold J. Shapiro is Managing Director and
CIO of Global Fixed Income for ABP. Based in the
Netherlands, ABP is currently the largest pension fund
worldwide, with assets of over 170 billion Euros. Within
fixed income, he is responsible for investing 60 billion
Euros and splits his time between ABP’s offices in New
York City and Amsterdam. Prior to joining ABP, Dr. Shapiro
held positions at UBS Asset Management, Merrill Lynch
Capital Markets, and at PaineWebber (now UBS) Capital
Markets. He began his career in the chemical industry where
he spent nearly 10 years at Halcon R&D, a process
research boutique, before transitioning to Wall Street. Dr.
Shapiro holds a bachelor’s in chemical engineering from
The Cooper Union, a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the
University of Rochester, and an MBA in finance from New York
University.
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And the favorite Art Auction Casino Night
on Saturday, October 29.
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Everyone – students, faculty and alumni
– is invited to attend the World of Peter Cooper panel
discussion in The Great Hall on Thursday, October 6,
coordinated by alumna Janet Gardner (A’65).
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End of Year Events – May and June were
especially busy months for alumni. Alumni were invited to
celebrate their affection for The Cooper Union and one
another at a variety of alumni events, including: the Class
of 1955 50th Reunion at the Golden Legion Celebration; the
annual On the Rooftop reception, where alumni from the
classes of 1984-2004 congratulated the class of 2005 on
their graduation; a Cooper Couple reception, honoring those
who met their mate at Cooper Union; and a 10-year reunion
for the Class of 1995.
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CUAA Leadership 2006 – Alumni voted,
ballots were counted, and the following graduates have
agreed to serve on the Executive Committee and Alumni
Council during the upcoming year:
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Officers
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President - Don Toman (EE’55)
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VP/Membership – Rebecca
Uss (AR’90)
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VP/Faculty Liaison –
Athena Carmichael DeNivo (CE’94)
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Secretary/Treasurer –
John Leeper (AR’85)
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Alumni Trustees
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Roger Tucker III (A’74)
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Carmi Bee (AR’67)
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Mark Epstein (A’76)
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Larry Ng (EE’78)
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Past Presidents
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Carl Selinger (CE’67)
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Jake Alspector (AR’72)
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Nominating Committee Chair
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Annual Fund Chair
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Council 2006
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Lance Brown (AR’65)
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Charles Cassella (EE’68)
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Ray Falci (ME’86)
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Mina Greenstein (A’56)
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Lawrence Lennon (CE’78)
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Jia Dee Li (CE’93)
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Scott Lyne (ChE’92)
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Christina Perry (ChE’99)
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Darren Rand (EE'01)
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Leah Rehbein (A'86)
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Ronald Weinstein (CE’67)
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Edward Widmer (ME’66)
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Council 2007
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Carol Bushell (A'55)
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Orly Cogan (A'96)
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Frank Dahl (ME'00)
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Tom Driscoll (ME'77)
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Harry Gaveras (AR'93)
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Paul Golden (AR'82)
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Pearl Greenberg (A’48)
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Jack Kahrs (ME’58)
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George Penesis (ME'91),
(MME'93)
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Stephanie Reyer (A'95)
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Marco Shmerykowsky (CE’92),
(MCE’93)
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Mark A. Vasquez (ME’88)
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Council 2008
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Janet Gardner (A’65)
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Al Brand (CE’67)
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Joel Azerrad (A’53)
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Kim Baker (A’89)
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John Huddy (AR’85)
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Yash Risbud (EE’92)
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Miriam Vidal (CE’93)
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Andre Luboff (CE’75)
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Matthew Tanteri (A’84)
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Rob Marano (EE’93)
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Rachel Whitlow (A’94)
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Rocco Cetera (CE’99)
Exhibitions
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Spectral Emanations: Paintings of Robert Slutzky
September 12 – October 14, 2005 (Gallery Hours: Monday – Friday, 4pm –
8pm; Saturday, 12pm – 5pm)
Presented by The Cooper Union’s Irwin S. Chanin School of
Architecture and the School of Art, this exhibition in the
Arthur A. Houghton, Jr. Gallery will include a selection of
Robert Slutzky’s (A’51) paintings spanning over fifty
years. Slutzky, who passed away in May, was a graduate of
the School of Art at Cooper Union in 1951 and a former
faculty member of both The Irwin S. Chanin School of
Architecture and The School of Art. For more information,
please call 212.353.4220
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Wangechi Mutu (A’97) has collages on
view at the Miami
Art Museum through October 9. Her work was featured in
an article in the Chicago
Tribune.
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School of Art alumni Alyse Emdur, Sophia
Naess, Seth Cameron, and Julian LaVerdiere were part of a
group exhibition titled No Apology for Breathing at Jack the
Pelican Presents in Williamsburg from July 21 to August 28.
For more information visit www.jackthepelicanpresents.com
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Faculty member Stephen Pascher, alumnus
Douglas Boatwright (A’04), and former staff members Ann
Holcomb and Patrick Grenier were part of a group exhibition
titled There are no more Allan Kaprows in the art world at
the Lower Eastside gallery Silo from July 16 to August 14.
Please visit www.silonyc.com
for more information.
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School of Art faculty members Robert Bordo
and Walid Raad (the Atlas Group) were part of a group
exhibition curated by Julie Ault and Martin Beck titled
Mirage at Alexander and Bonin from June 4 to July 29.
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Robert Bordo will have a solo show at
Alexander and Bonin from September 6 to October 29, titled
Another Day. For more information visit www.alexanderandbonin.com
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Christine Osinski’s photography
exhibition Drawn to Water is on view at the historic Alice
Austen House on Staten Island now through October 15. For
more information visit www.aliceausten.org.
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A Knock at the Door, curated by Seth
Cameron (A’04), Creative Director for the Lower Manhattan
Cultural Council, will be on view in the Great Hall Gallery
at Cooper Union from September 8 to October 1. This exhibit,
which features the work of faculty members Doug Ashford, Day
Gleeson, and Walid Raad, is part of the LMCC’s What Comes
After: Cities, Art, and Recovery, the first of two
international summits focused on the arts and culture after
catastrophe. Please visit www.lmcc.net
for more information.
lectures and public programs
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A Celebration of the World of Peter
Cooper: Social Justice and Entrepreneurship in 19th century
New York
Invited speakers: Barbara Balliet (Rutgers University),
Peter Buckley (The Cooper Union), Kenneth Jackson (Columbia
University), and Sean Wilentz (Princeton University).
Thursday, October 6, 7pm
For almost 150 years, The Great Hall of The Cooper Union has
served as a popular stage for educational lectures,
political movements, campaigns for social reform and the
creative arts. These meetings have embodied what Peter
Cooper meant by "civic culture." The impact of The
Great Hall on American society has been immeasurable. This
panel discussion is produced by The Gardner Documentary
Group and funded by the New York Council for the Humanities,
a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the
Humanities.
Free: panel discussion
The Great Hall
7 East 7th Street at Third Avenue
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10th Anniversary Celebration: Picador
Tom Wolfe and Touré
Wednesday, September 21, 6:30pm
Famed author of more than a dozen books including such
contemporary classics as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test,
The Right Stuff, The Bonfire of Vanities, and A Man in Full,
Tom Wolfe will read from and discuss his latest novel, I Am
Charlotte Simmons. Touré, author of the story collection,
The Portable Promised Land, is CNN’s pop culture
correspondent and a contributing editor of Rolling Stone.
His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York
Times, and many other publications. Touré will read from
and discuss his slyly satirical novel, Soul City.
Free reading and book signing
The Great Hall
7 East 7th Street at Third Avenue
The complete schedule of events will soon be
available on the Cooper
Union web site.
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Architecture Professor Ysrael
Seinuk was profiled in a Time magazine story as one of the 25
most influential Hispanics in America.
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The Bionic Human, a
biomedical engineering project at Cooper Union’s Summer
Engineering Internship Program, was featured in a news
segment on WABC-Channel 7. Representing New York City’s
five boroughs, fourteen high school students spent the
summer learning about the medical, pharmaceutical and
engineering professional overlap. The program culminated in
a mock surgery on a life size model skeleton using donated
prosthetics such as pacemakers and vascular grafts.
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Martin Finio (AR’88) and
Daniel Libeskind (AR’70) were featured in Esquire magazine
with their signature designs.
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Architecture Dean Anthony Vidler was named
Public Director for Educational Affairs for the AIA New York
Chapter and Architecture
faculty member Peter Schubert was selected as Director for
Programs & Strategic Planning.
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Lifeform architectural
studio, founded by Rafi Elbaz (AR’95), won a recent
international competition ‘First Step Housing’ with a
design entitled ‘Kit of Parts’. A prototype of ‘Kit of
Parts’ will be on view at The Urban Center from August 3
through October 5. For more information visit http://www.commonground.org/.
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Dimitri Scheblanov (A’05)
was featured in the "Russian Beat" column of
Sunday's Daily News, the Queens Borough edition on June 19.
The article describes Dimitri's family background and his
artwork using toxic tar (photo includes the young artist at
Cooper Union's exhibition standing beside his sculpture).
Dimitri credited Cooper Union with enabling him "to
realize his aspiration of balancing all types of art, not
just the fine art..."
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The New York Times featured
Cooper Union graduates Matt Dunn (A’05), Natalie Shook (A’05),
and Theo A. Rosenblum (A’05) in the INK column of the
metro section. During an interview with a Times reporter,
the three students had the opportunity to describe one of
their works showcased in Cooper Union's End of the Year
Show. Three vignettes were included profiling each student
alongside their artwork with quotes from the artists
explaining the work's evolution.
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WABC- Channel 7 reported on
the mini-Baja, an off road vehicle conceived and developed
by Cooper Union engineering undergrads and showcased during
the student’s annual exhibition.
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Recent alumnus of the School
of Art, Matt Dunn (A’05)—who had his artwork included in
exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the End of
the Year Show, was profiled in Crain’s New York Business
in their New York column.
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Recent grad Eric Pye (A’05)
was profiled in The
Villager newspaper. The article described his multimedia
exploration of New York’s nightlife for Cooper Union’s
End of the Year Show.
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The announcement of Saskia
Bos as the Dean of the School of Art at The Cooper Union ran
in The New York Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education and
Artforum.
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