Founder’s Day 2025 Celebrations
The 2025 CUAA Founder’s Day Awards Ceremony will be held in The Rose Auditorium Register
Gano Dunn Award for professional achievement in engineering, industry, science or finance — Nina Tandon EE’01
Augustus Saint-Gaudens Award for professional achievement in art — Sydney Myers A’53
John Q, Hejduk Award for outstanding contributions to the theory, teaching and/or practice of architecture — John Lin AR’02
Peter Cooper Public Service Award for extraordinary contributions to society — Michael Wallace CE’90
Alumnus of the Year Award for extraordinary contributions to the CUAA and The Cooper Union — Douglas Sharrott EE’83
Young Alumnus of the Year Award for extraordinary contributions to the CUAA and The Cooper Union — Shiori Sasaki AR’14
February 2022 Council Meeting
The February CUAA Council Meeting will be held on February 20, 2025 Alumni and students are welcome. Learn who is on the ballot for the 2025 CUAA Spring Election. More Information
Register to Vote in the 2025 Spring Election
CUAA elections are done electronically. We must have your current email address to send you an electronic ballot. If you are new to the CUAA or if you have recently changed your email address, please send an email to cuaaelections@cooperalumni.org with your name, school, and year of graduation to ensure timely receipt of the electronic ballot.
Also, if you have not already registered on the Cooperalumni.org website, do so at cooperalumni.org/Register. If your email has changed, please update your profile on the website to include your new email address. Login to the website and select Update from the menu or use this link.
The Election will begin the evening of March 12th, following the Meet The Candidate event.
History of Founder’s Day
Here is a look back at the beginnings of the annual Founder’s Day Celebration. Link
History of the Cooper Union Hall of Fame
The creation of the Cooper Union Hall of Fame was announced in 2008 and the first Hall of Fame Celebration was held in 2009. The Hall of Fame rollout coincided with the 150th anniversary of the Cooper Union. Learn more about the history of the Hall of Fame. Link
Cooper Together Celebrations will be happening in February at many locations.
You’re invited to join us for Cooper Together 2025 at a location near you. More than 20 gatherings are planned. Learn More
UPCOMING EVENTS
2/3/2025 at 7 PM Malcom King Virtual Address Register
2/4/2025 at 12 PM Wreath Laying at the Peter Cooper statue in Cooper Square Park. More Information
2/12/2025 2025 CUAA Founders Day Awards Ceremony in the Rose Auditorium. Register
2/20/2025 February CUAA Council Meeting
2/25/2025 165th anniversary of the Right Makes Might speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln in The Cooper Union’s Great Hall. This commemorative event will feature actor Richard Thomas reenacting a portion of Lincoln’s speech. Learn More
3/12/2025 at 6:30 PM Meet The Candidate Night, Room 201, 41 Cooper Square building
3/23/2025 Jack Whitten Exhibit at MOMA begins Learn More
4/27/2025 Annual Visit to Peter Cooper’s Grave site in Greenwood Cemetery Learn More
Alumni News
- An exhibition, ongoing at the Fish House, Paul Gardère: Vantage Points, celebrates the life and work of the late Haitian, New York City-based artist Paul Gardère A’67. This exhibit will be on view until June 6, 2025 on Thursday and Friday afternoons and at other times by appointment. Learn More
- The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) will present the first comprehensive Jack Whitten A’64 retrospective. The exhibition, titled “Jack Whitten: The Messenger,” will run from March 23 to August 2, 2025, and span the late American artist’s nearly six-decade career. Organized by Michelle Kuo, MoMA chief curator at large, along with curatorial assistant Helena Klevorn, the retrospective will feature over 175 works. Whitten passed away in 2018 at the age of 78. Learn More
- CU Hall of Fame member Bill Morrison, was nominated for a 2025 Academy Award in the Director category for his 2023 film, Incident. Morrison returned to Cooper in September 2024 for a screening of the film Incident. Learn More
- Former CUAA Council Member, Dr. George DeFeis CE’82 has received a Fulbright Award to teach in Tunis. Learn More
- Archinect Magazine Article published 1/23/2025, Daniel Libeskind Will Remake Former Auschwitz Commandant’s House into Learning Center, discusses Daniel Libeskind AR’70 current works in Germany and in Pittsburgh, PA. Read Article
School News
The Lines and Shadows Drawing Club
The CU has a drawing club called “Fine Lines and Shadows.” It meets on Fridays from 5 to 8 PM while school is in session. A model, materials, and food are supplied. Occasionally the group meets off-site. The “Field Trips” are included on the club schedule. Alumni are welcome, but must register. More information, including the schedule and registration information is located here.
The Diane Lewis Student Lecture Series: John Chunhan Lin AR’02: Rural Urban Framework
Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 2 PM. This event will be conducted in-person in room 315F and through Zoom. Registration is Required.
Albert Nerken School of Engineering
Dean Barry Shoop and Assistant Dean Lisa Shay share updates from the Engineering School and introduce us to new faculty members in Engineering News. This Engineering News site includes updates on a large number of faculty and student projects.
CU Motorsports
The Cooper Union Motorsports team is building and competing with its second Electrical Vehicle (EV). It is looking forward to entering the car in the annual FSAE competition to be held in June, 2025 at the Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn Michigan.
Follow the team activities on their website.
The Cooper Together Scholarship has the power to change a student’s life by providing four years of education at Cooper. Learn More
Alumni can contribute to The Cooper Union and to student scholarships, teams and clubs by visiting Cooper’s giving page linked here
In Memoriam
See who we have lost during 2024 and during 2025
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