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Professor Fred Fontaine Retires After Nearly Four Decades at Cooper Professor Fred Fontaine Retires After Nearly Four Decades at Cooper POSTED ON: March 31, 2026 Image Professor Fred Fontaine. Photo by Mario Morgado. After nearly 40 years of service to The Cooper Union's Albert Nerken School of Engineering, Professor Fred L. Fontaine is retiring, concluding a distin...

The Mohr's Circle Trophy Comes to Cooper Civil engineering seniors Sinclair Kennedy-Nolle and Isabella Ng placed first in the Geo-Prediction student competition

Last month, The Cooper Union Toboggan Team delivered an incredible performance at the Great Northern Concrete Toboggan Race in London, Canada—making history as the first-ever Cooper Union team to compete in the event.

The team earned 3rd place overall and brought home five specialty awards:

- Best Performing Toboggan
- Excellence in Student Construction
- Best Braking Performance
- People’s Choice Award
- Best New Team

To celebrate their achievement, the team was also awarded Albert Nerken School of Engineering coins by Dean Barry L. Shoop.

$4.97 Million Gift Will Advance Cooper’s Computer Science Program One of the largest single donations in Cooper’s history strengthens the launch of its newest engineering department and supports a project-based, human-centered approach to understanding the foundations of computer science.

CUSLI Awarded a NASA New York Space Grant The grant supports the student-led Cooper Union Satellite Launch Initiative's study of the properties of e-paper

Ten students and four faculty from The Cooper Union Albert Nerken School of Engineering’s Department of Chemical Engineering recently traveled to Boston to attend and present research at the annual meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). To close out the weekend many in The Cooper Union group gathered with chemical engineering alumni who also attended the meeting. Congrats to Cooper Brue which won several beer brewing awards, Kayla Lee ChE'26 and Suhama Saniz ChE'27 who won first and second prize respectively for their posters!

Pictured are attendees of the alumni, student, and faculty AIChE gathering.

Bottom row (l to r): Abigail Lin ChE'26, Michelle Liang ChE'26, Kayla Lee ChE'26, Sivan Spiel ChE'25, Skyler Shin ChE'26

Middle row (l to r): Nehan Nichackawade ChE'25, Chae Jeong ChE'16, Michael Lange ChE'19, Allen Rakhamimov ChE'26, Charmian Wu ChE'12, Ibrahim Abusharkh ChE’22

Standing (l to r): Eleanor and Stanley Ensminger Chair of Chemical Engineering Ben Davis, Associate Professor Jen Weiser, Assistant Professor Abhishek Sharma, Mahir Alam ChE'19, Heather Kulik ChE'04

We've recently released the latest edition of our Engineering Newsletter! Catch up on the exciting work our faculty, staff, and students have been doing - cooper.edu/engineering/school-engineering-current-past-newsletters

Abhishek Sharma, assistant professor of chemical engineering, and Amanda Simson, associate professor of chemical engineering, attended the premiere of “The Visioneers with Zay Harding,” a new CBS educational series celebrating the scientists, engineers, and everyday people who are creating innovative climate-solutions. They’re pictured here at the CBS Studios with Harding, who previously hosted PBS’s "Globe Trekker."

Join Prof. Reviel Netz as he unravels the mystery of the Archimedes Palimpsest—an ancient manuscript decoded to reveal lost mathematical and historical insights! TONIGHT at 5pm! cooper.edu/events-and-exhibitions/events/archimedes-palimpsest-lecture-reviel-netz