Alumni Hall of Fame

FEATURED MEMBERS

The CUAA dedicated its Alumni Hall of Fame on April 17, 2009 to commemorate the 150th Anniversary of The Cooper Union, celebrate founder Peter Cooper’s 218th birthday, and recognize achievements of outstanding alumni in the fields of art, architecture and engineering.

The Alumni Hall of Fame includes all alumni who have received the Augustus Saint-Gaudens, John Q. Hejduk and Gano Dunn awards; the President’s Citation; and alumni who have been recognized as Urban Visionaries. Additionally, the deans of each school selected distinguished alumni who, because they were deceased before the awards were created, are included among the over 265 distinguished individuals in the Alumni Hall of Fame.

Click here to view the list of all members of the Alumni Hall of Fame

REGINA GRANNE, A '59

BIO: Regina Granne, A ’59* is a Manhattan-based artist whose drawings have been recognized for their creative interpretations of feminism, war and politics. Regina is also a painter and displays in both mediums, an interest in the registers of figuration and still life. She continued her education after Cooper Union at Yale University, earning a Master of Fine Arts in 1963. At present Ms. Granne is a faculty member at Parsons School of Design New York. In addition, she has taught at Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, part of Bard College, as well as Queens College, CUNY, and the Art Academy of Cincinnati among others. Ms. Granne received the CUAA Augustus Saint-Gaudens Award in 2013.
* granted posthumously

HAROLD GOLDBERG, EE '44

BIO: Harold Goldberg, EE ’44, is truly a renaissance man. He is a design engineer often referred to as an innovator, entrepreneur, educator, editor and more. He introduced precision digital measurements first to the production floor and later, battery powered and pocket sized, to anywhere, indoors or out. He designed the electronics for multiple medical instruments used to detect and treat cardiac diseases including the EKG and EEG. Known as the “godfather” of the Electro conference, he is the founder of several companies and of a graduate level college, and has been the feisty editor of the Boston IEEE Section newsletter for almost 50 years. All in all, Hal prefers to be called just “an engineer” and is very proud of being a Cooper alumnus. Mr. Goldberg received the CUAA Gano Dunn Award in 2013.

MICHAEL MORRIS, AR '89 AND YOSHIKO SATO, AR '89

BIO: Since founding their multidisciplinary architecture practice, Morris Sato Studio, in New York in 1996, Michael Morris, AR ’89 and Yoshiko Sato, AR ’89* have received multiple honors and awards and their portfolio of built projects has been widely recognized in leading publications. In addition to their collaborative studio, Sato and Morris independently and continuously held teaching positions in leading architecture schools, and the pair has been frequent lecturers and participants of international forums. Sato and Morris'recently completed works included a pair of houses on Shelter Island, ongoing design, production, and research of healthcare facilities, and collaboration with NASA’s Johnson Space Center on human habitability projects for future missions and life beyond Earth. Mr. Morris and Ms. Sato received the CUAA John Q. Hejduk Award in 2013.
* granted posthumously