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The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture

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Michael Young Appointed Dean of The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture

School of Art

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Alumni and Faculty Selected for MoMA PS1 Show

Albert Nerken School of Engineering

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Engineering Students Recognized by NIH for Bioengineering Work

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

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Meet Nina Ebner

After Cooper Screening, Film Makes Olympic Debut

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Champions of the Golden Valley, shown at Cooper in December, is now streaming worldwide on the Olympic Channel.

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In Memoriam: David Yarnell

David Yarnell

Yarnell and his wife Toni Howard established a major gift for exceptional graduates from Cooper's architecture and art schools.

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Class Gives Students New Tools for Exhibiting Art

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Last semester, alumni Jess Kuronen and Troy Zaretsky-Kreiner co-taught a course in exhibition design that led to multiple student-run shows on campus.

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From St. Mark’s to Santa Fe

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Cooper Couple Geraldine Fiskus A’65 and Jay Zeiger A’65 reflect on their shared path among the generation of artists who, beginning in the 1970s, traded the art scene of the big city for the high deserts of New Mexico.

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Faculty Win Grant for NYC Housing Research

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Acting Associate Dean Mersiha Veledar and Associate Professor Kayla Montes de Oca were awarded a 2025 Independent Projects Grant from the Architectural League of NY. 

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  • Founded by inventor, industrialist and philanthropist Peter Cooper in 1859, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art offers education in art, architecture and engineering, as well as courses in the humanities and social sciences.

  • “My feelings, my desires, my hopes, embrace humanity throughout the world,” Peter Cooper proclaimed in a speech in 1853. He looked forward to a time when, “knowledge shall cover the earth as waters cover the great deep.”

  • From its beginnings, Cooper Union was a unique institution, dedicated to founder Peter Cooper's proposition that education is the key not only to personal prosperity but to civic virtue and harmony.

  • Peter Cooper wanted his graduates to acquire the technical mastery and entrepreneurial skills, enrich their intellects and spark their creativity, and develop a sense of social justice that would translate into action.