The Kupferberg Center for the Arts is located on the campus of Queens College and was dedicated in 2006 in honor of alumnus Max Kupferberg (1919–2017) and his wife, Selma (1926-2012), following their $10 million donation to sustain the arts at Queens College. The Center consists of multiple venues used for concerts and events; it works to develop cross-disciplinary programming in collaboration with on-campus departments and off-campus arts organizations across the borough. The building, which opened in 1961, was originally known as the Colden Center for the Performing Arts - a name that is carried on by the Center's Colden Auditorium. Max Kupferberg and his twin brother, Kenneth, were born in 1919 to Romanian parents who had immigrated to the U.S. in 1903. Kupferberg's father was a cabinetmaker and his mother a homemaker; together, they raised seven children in Flushing, Queens, where the family moved in 1926. Max graduated from Flushing High School in 1937 and enrolled in the inaugural class at Queens College later that year with his brother, Ken. At Queens College, the twins both studied physics and math, complemented by a liberal arts education. Kupferberg graduated from Queens in 1942 and subsequently enrolled at New York University for graduate coursework. When World War II began Max was initially deferred from the draft, while his brother, Ken, was drafted from Columbia University to join the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos, New Mexico. A third Kupferberg brother, Jesse, was recruited to the Project per Ken's suggestion and Max applied to the Project shortly thereafter. The physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer accepted Kupferberg to the Project, where he was immersed in applied scientific scholarship towards a world-altering goal – the creation of the first nuclear weapon. The brothers were present for the first test detonation at Trinity. Upon their return to Flushing, the brothers (Ken, Max, Jesse, and Jack) founded Kepco in 1946 - an electrical power equipment company that grew out of their wartime experience at Los Alamos. Max also married Selma Share (1926–2012) in 1946 and moved to Bayside, where the couple spent their lives together and raised two children, Saul and Rhoda. Kupferberg remained an active supporter of many Queens organizations throughout his adult life, especially in Flushing.