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  • Cooper Union's ribbon cutting ceremony was an important milestone in the college's rich 150 year history. Segments spotlighting the event aired on WABC-Ch.7 morning news and WCBS-AM radio; an Associated Press article ran on the wire and was featured in local papers from Vermont to Pennsylvania. (September 2009)
  • In addition to the outstanding review of 41 Cooper Square by New York Times architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff, New York magazine trumpeted the new state-of-the-art facility and wrote "The graduates of this private, tuition-free school of art, architecture, and engineering help shape our visual culture, and it benefits us all to have them spend their student days in such a fertile place." (September 2009)
  • The critic of Bloomberg Muse heralded the visionary design of 41 Cooper Square and quoted President Campbell: "Our intention is to stimulate innovation and creativity on a recent tour of the 175,000 square foot building. These are explicit and conscious components of our curriculum, philosophy and pedagogical approach." (September 2009)
  • The unusual story of how Cooper Union came to have one of the marble Penn Station eagles perched on the green roof of 41 Cooper Square ran in the print and online edition of The New York Times "City Room" section. (September 2009)
  • The Wall Street Journal, Money & Investing section, profiled Cooper Union's endowment strategy led by the administration and Board of Trustees' Investment Committee endowment. After many hours of interviews with President George Campbell and Trustee John Michaelson, Reporter John Hechinger wrote about the college's historic policy of charging no tuition, 41 Cooper Square and the launching of new academic programs. Hechinger sites that these expansions stem from "Cooper's decision three years ago to ratchet back the financial risk in its endowment, enabling it to avoid the losses that have racked its peers." (July 2009)
  • The New York Times' architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff reviewed Cooper Union's new building at 41 Cooper Square and he describes it as "a bold architectural statement of genuine civic value." It appeared on the first page of the WeekendArts, Fine Arts/Leisure section on Friday, June 6. A slide show spotlighting many of the building's outstanding architectural features also appears on The New York Times website and provides a variety of unique angles of the new academic facility. (June 2009)
  • Media coverage for Cooper Union started off with a bang in 2009. The New York Times ran a prominent feature spotlighting the Cooper Union's 150 year commitment to academic excellence and the recent surge in admission applications. With insight from President Campbell as well as faculty and students, the article encapsulates the interdisciplinary nature of the college and the importance of providing every admitted student with a full-tuition scholarship. Coverage of The Cooper Union by The New York Times continued with a blog article showcasing the college's new logo, designed by School of Art graduate Stephen Doyle and his pioneering firm Doyle Partners. The Chronicle of Higher Education recently profiled the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture's Professor Emerita Sue Ferguson Gussow and her drawing seminar. The comprehensive article addressed the importance of incorporating freehand drawing into architecture curriculum, and a slide show of Professor Gussow's class is available to viewers on the Chronicle's website. The East Village's local paper, The Villager, reported on the launch of Cooper Union's 150th anniversary celebration and featured exciting photographs of The Cooper Union Step Team. Most recently, an in-depth segment on Cooper Union aired on WABC-Channel 7 Eyewitness News, where Dr. Campbell discussed how the college is able to provide a full tuition scholarship, even during times of economic distress, and students talked about the impact the scholarship has had in their lives and academic studies. (March 2009)