2024 CUAA Holiday Party
Come Celebrate with the CUAA! All alumni, family, friends, students, faculty & staff are invited. Please come have some food and grab a drink with us to celebrate the holiday season! When: Thursday, December...
Come Celebrate with the CUAA! All alumni, family, friends, students, faculty & staff are invited. Please come have some food and grab a drink with us to celebrate the holiday season! When: Thursday, December...
Dear Alumni and Friends, I am Ron Vogel, the new President of the Cooper Union Alumni Association (CUAA). I look forward to serving the CUAA, continuing important initiatives started by our previous president and forging...
Dear Alumni, Meet the Candidates Night for the 2023 CUAA elections was held March 15, 2023. The entire Meet the Candidates Night was recorded and can be streamed here. In the YouTube stream, you will...
As of 1:10 PM 11/29/2022, Cooper Union alumni from across the globe have already contributed $800,000 to help reach our $1.2 million Giving Tuesday goal! But we still need your support. Please make a...
The CUAA Annual Fund would like to THANK YOU, the 2,184 Alumni who collectively gifted over $3,098,453 to our Alma Mater in fiscal year 2021-2022! There were 50 new Alumni who chose last year...
Call for Nominations CUAA Executive Committee Positions. The Cooper Union Alumni Association (CUAA) is seeking energetic and committed alumni to lead our 13,000-member organization. President, Alumni Trustee, Secretary and other executive level positions are open for...
The 2022 CU Reunion began on Friday, June 3, 2022, with an opportunity to view items from the CU Library Archives laid out on the tables of the library. Alumni had a chance to...
Executive Committee Alumni Trustee: Anthony Ianno, EE 1985 Secretary: Anna Brook, BSE 2004 Treasurer: Ron Vogel, ChE 2001 Vice President Faculty-Student Liaison: Margaret Matz, AR 1983 Vice President of Alumni Activities: Kelly Occhiuzzo Zack,...
November 2021 Dear Alumni, My name is Mariam Shahjahan-Cantelmi, Chairperson of this year’s CUAA Annual Fund. As a fellow graduate of The Cooper Union, I ask you: Where would you be without Cooper? I...
The 2021 CUAA Election is in progress! It began on March 15th and will continue through April 30th, 2021. All the officer positions are on the ballot this year and so is the Alumni...
January 2021 Council Meeting The first Council Meeting of 2021 will be held on January 21, 2021. It will be a virtual event. Register to receive Zoom Link. Founder’s Day 2021 Celebrations The 2021...
Thank you to all who voted in the 2020 CUAA Election. 709 voted. Results will be announced at the Council Meeting on June 4, 2020. View Video from Meet The Candidate Night The Cooper...
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Elizabeth Graziolo AR’95 was elected to the Alumni Trustee position during the 2019 CUAA Election (held in May) and was seated on the Cooper Union B.O.T. during the December 2019 board meeting. Elizabeth graduated...
5 Million Dollar Donation Match Opportunity THANK YOU to everyone who donated to the Annual Fund last fiscal year. Your generous support has helped keep Cooper Union on track to achieve the goals set forth in...
Call for Nominations and Self-Nominations CUAA Executive Committee Positions The Cooper Union Alumni Association (CUAA) is seeking energetic and committed alumni to lead our 13,000-member organization. Alumni Trustee, Secretary and other executive level positions...
2019 Archtober is a month long celebration of architecture in New York City. It is organized by the Center for Architecture in collaboration with partners and sponsors. The Cooper Union is one of the...
Please nominate a CUAA alumni who has excelled in the field of Art, Architecture, Engineering or Public Service by following the links below. The deadline for this year’s nominations ends 10/30/2020, any nominations received...
Welcome to our New alumni! Commencement Ceremonies took place on May , 2019. We are thrilled to welcome the new graduates into the CUAA. Congratulations on your achievement! 47 alumni received bachelor degrees in...
The 2018/2019 Cooper Motorsports team participated in the FSAE competition, held annually in Brooklyn, MI May 8 to May 11, 2019. They were able to tie for the 8th best designed car among 120...
Committee Chairs were recently announced by CUAA President Margaret Matz AR’83 Annual Fund Committee: Carol Wolf A’84, Kelly Smolar ME’07 Nominating Committee: Kay Nordstrom ME’77 Communications Committee: Genevieve Martin A’11, Anthony Manganiello CE’06 Integrative...
The Cooper Union’s 160th Commencement took place on Tuesday May 21, 2019 at 10:30 AM in the Great Hall. The number of graduates from the undergraduate programs were: School of Architecture: 15 School of...
Executive Committee Alumni Trustees: (4 year term on BOT begins when rules of the BOT are met. Term on CUAA Exec Council begins July 1, 2019) Aftab Hussain, ME 1997 and Elizabeth Graziolo, AR...
Cooper Motorsports Excels at FSAE Competition The Cooper Motorsports Team participated in the annual FSAE racecar competition in Brooklyn Michigan during the first week of May. The team was able to tie for the...
2019 CUAA Awards Ceremony Announcement
Free Education Committee Update The Free Education Committee (“FEC”) of The Cooper Union Board of Trustees issued the second FEC report on January 21, 2018. Learn More During the past year the FEC was...
CUAA Founder's Day Award Ceremony is Thursday, March 26, 2026
We are thrilled to announce the 2026 CUAA Founder’s Day and Hall of Fame Award recipients. We invite you to celebrate with us on Thursday, March 26, 2026.
Pamela Belyea AR'85 opens doors and builds community. She co-founded the Gage Academy of Art, Teen Art Studios, BelyeaConsult, Ben Fagin Music Opportunity Fund, and Griever's Library.
David Gersten is an internationally recognized artist, architect, writer, and educator whose work spans drawing, writing, film, performance, pedagogy, and the creation of new cultural and educational infrastructures.
Ellen Lupton A’85 is a designer, writer, and educator. Her books include Thinking with Type, Design Is Storytelling, Graphic Design Thinking, Health Design Thinking, and Extra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-Racist, Nonbinary Field Guide...
Andrew graduated from The Cooper Union in 2017 with a Bachelor of Engineering in civil engineering and in 2019 with a Master of Engineering in structural engineering. Andrew is the current Secretary of...
Ron Vogel ChE'01 first served on the CUAA Alumni Council and went on to hold multiple leadership roles—as Chair of the Communications Committee, CUAA Treasurer, and CUAA President.
Lou Manzione’s career spanned corporate research in Bell Labs, academics as a dean of engineering, and president of the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of New Jersey.
Vincent Blaise Ceci A'60 died this year at 88. He grew-up in Brooklyn, attending Industrial Arts High, and then Cooper Union. A 12-year designer at Push Pin Studios - and later Macmillan...
These books were published by alumni in 2025.
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