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Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art

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Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, accredited institution of higher education; in New York City; coeducational; chartered and opened in 1859. Founded by Peter Cooper, it pioneered in evening engineering and art schools; day schools were added in 1900. Today it includes schools of engineering, art, and architecture, a division of adult education, and a faculty of humanities and social sciences. There are no tuition, application, matriculation, or graduation fees for U.S. residents. The Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, was founded in 1897 as part of Cooper Union by Sarah, Eleanor, and Amy Hewitt, granddaughters of Peter Cooper. Since 1967 the museum, still located in New York City, has been a division of the Smithsonian Institution Smithsonian Institution, research and education center, at Washington, D.C.; founded 1846 under terms of the will of James Smithson of London, who in 1829 bequeathed his fortune to the United States to create an establishment for the "increase and diffusion of
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[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art recently held a "topping out" ceremony to celebrate the raising of the final beam to the highest point of the college's new academic building superstructure.
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She currently teaches at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City.
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