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Russell Hulse Physics’70 Russell Hulse PHY’70 is Regental Professor and Associate Vice President for Strategic Initiatives at the University of Texas at Dallas. Previously, he had a 30-year career at the Plasma Physics Laboratory...
Lee H. Skolnick, AR’79 Lee H. Skolnick, FAIA, Architecture 1979, is founder, Principal, and lead designer of the Lee H. Skolnick Design Partnership. He has served on advisory and grant evaluation panels for both...
Wangechi Mutu A’96 Wangechi Mutu, Art 1996, is an artist who works with paint and multimedia collage to address gender and ethnicity. A native of Kenya and based in New York, Mutu’s artwork explores...
Sylvia Plimack Mangold, A’59 Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Art 1959, is a painter and teacher. She studied at Yale after receiving a certificate from the Cooper Union. She began exhibiting her paintings in the late...
Nancy Yieh, ME’79 Nancy Yieh, Engineering 1979, was vice president of gas operations at Con Edison of New York. She was responsible for infrastructure reliability for the gas delivery network, energy conservation, reduction of...
William King, A’48 William King, Art 1948, is a sculptor known for his work with the human figure. In the 1940’s King moved to New York to study art at Cooper Union and the...
Joan Semmel A’52 Joan Semmel A’52 received the Cooper Union President’s Citation Award in 1984. She is an artist whose self-image paintings from the 1970s have become iconic feminist works of art. Following her...
Chris Benedict AR’86 Chris Benedict AR’86 is Principle of Chris Benedict, R.A., a New York City firm that specializes in healthy, durable and energy efficient buildings. Her work, in collaboration with Henry Gifford, mechanical...
Dimitri Hadzi, A’50 Dimitri Hadzi, A’50, was an artist who was known for his abstract and semi-abstract monumental sculptures. Dimitri Hadzi was born in New York. Hadzi entered The Cooper Union after serving in...
(This profile was originally published in the April 2009 issue of the CUAA newsletter) Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe A’75 received the 1990 President’s Citation. She is a distinguished photographer, photojournalist, and writer. During her junior year...
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