Your Support Matters! All Gifts Matched!

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Thanks to the generosity of Edward Durbin EE’48, your gifts will be matched up to $4 million. In other words, all donations will now be doubled. All gifts will have TWICE the impact for our incredible students.

Edward Durbin graduated from The Cooper Union School of Engineering in 1948. Born in New York City and the son of immigrants, Edward was an executive in the aerospace industry and an accomplished sailor.

Throughout his career successes, Ed was keenly aware of how much he benefitted from a superb, free education and decided to support student scholarships at The Cooper Union. Will you do the same?

Don’t wait! Give now and your donation will be matched today!

With our thanks, for gifts of $100 to $499, we’ll send you a 5x7 archival print of the image below. When you give $500 or more, you’ll receive a 6x9 archival print, beautifully matted and ready for framing*. We have a limited number of prints available, so give now to reserve yours!

Archival Print


Foundation Building, undated; Photo Courtesy of The Cooper Union Archives, Photograph collection.

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*Donors who give from $100 - $499 will receive a 5 x 7 print on cardboard backing; for gifts from $500 and above, donors will receive a 6 x 9 print with matted border. One print per donor. Please expect delivery inJuly/August 2024.

  • Founded by inventor, industrialist and philanthropist Peter Cooper in 1859, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art offers education in art, architecture and engineering, as well as courses in the humanities and social sciences.

  • “My feelings, my desires, my hopes, embrace humanity throughout the world,” Peter Cooper proclaimed in a speech in 1853. He looked forward to a time when, “knowledge shall cover the earth as waters cover the great deep.”

  • From its beginnings, Cooper Union was a unique institution, dedicated to founder Peter Cooper's proposition that education is the key not only to personal prosperity but to civic virtue and harmony.

  • Peter Cooper wanted his graduates to acquire the technical mastery and entrepreneurial skills, enrich their intellects and spark their creativity, and develop a sense of social justice that would translate into action.