Prize in Physics, a Pritzker Prize, 3 National Medal of Arts Awards, 15 Rome Prizes, 26 Guggenheim Fellowships, 3 MacArthur Fellowships, 9 Chrysler Design Awards, 3 Emmy Awards, a Tony, a Grammy, a Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, and 3 Thomas Jefferson Awards for Public Architecture. The institution has also had 40 Fulbright Scholars since 2001 and 13 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships since 2004.
== Notable faculty ==
Notable faculty of the Cooper Union include:
Diana Agrest, architect
Eleanor K. Baum, electrical engineer
Peter Eisenman, architect
William Germano, editor
Hans Haacke, artist
Lucy Raven, artist
== In popular culture ==
Film
In Susan Skoog's coming-of-age independent film Whatever (1998), precocious suburban teen Anna Stockard (Liza Weil) harbors dreams of moving to the city to study art at the Cooper Union in the early 80s.
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby features the New Academic Building.
Winter's Tale (2014) was filmed at Cooper's foundation building …
