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The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture

The M.Arch II Program Expands Criticism, History and Theory Concentration

School of Art

Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev comes to Cooper Union

Albert Nerken School of Engineering

Start Your Engines: Middle Schoolers Attend Cooper Union for a Day

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

The Interdisciplinary Discipline

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The Civil War in Words and Music

The day after President Abraham Lincoln's 204th birthday, hundreds of people filled the Great Hall for "The Civil War in Words and Music," the same space where Lincoln made his famous "Right Makes Might" speech

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Cooper History Goes Online

Part of a long-term effort at digitizing the Cooper Union archives, the first 21 annual reports go online this month, documenting not just the start of the institution but providing a snapshot of New York civic life during the late 19th century

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Teaching the Cutting Edge

A new Certificate in Digital Representation and Fabrication keeps the Department of Continuing Education at the vanguard of offering unique professional enhancements

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The "Green" Modernists

The story behind Lessons from Modernism, an exhibition created collaboratively by Cooper Union faculty, staff, alumni and students, examining the Modernist architectural movement from a perspective that may surprise you

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City Living: Is It Sustainable?

Starting Monday, February 11 at 6:30 in the Great Hall a free, public six-week lecture series examines the impact of the world's move toward urban areas.  We spoke with the visiting lecturer, Dr. Steward Pickett, about the series and New York City's preparedness for more "natural disturbances"

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Menschel Fellowship and Cross-Disciplinary Thinking

The Menschel Fellowship enables Cooper students from all three schools to pursue a long-term project of creative inquiry that often involves travel. This year's five projects take the viewer far and wide from the Deep South to the Aleutian Islands in the Bering Sea to the valleys of Romanian Moldavia

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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.