Award-winning educator Elizabeth F. Pober recently was named director of the Interior Design division at the University of Oklahoma College of Architecture.
“Elizabeth’s teaching and research agenda feed off of one another, and the classroom is where her energy has made a tremendous impact,” said College of Architecture Dean Hans E. Butzer. “Our students are impressively loyal to Elizabeth, and entranced with her teaching manner. Elizabeth’s pioneering research includes bringing virtual reality technologies into our studios. She offers a working example of the ideal: that our passion for teaching and research merge to become a powerful pedagogical moment for our students.”
Congratulations, Director Pober!
Telesis, a journal produced by students in the University of Oklahoma Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture, has earned first place in the 2026 Douglas Haskell Award for Student Journals for its seventh volume, “Unfold.” This marks the fourth time the publication has earned recognition for excellence in student architectural journalism. It shares the honor with student journals from Columbia University, University of Michigan, and Cal Poly.
Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture congratulates Thinh "Henry" Duong, a master's student in the Division of Interior Design, for earning first place in the 2026 Robert Bruce Thompson Annual Student Light Fixture Design Competition.
Gibbs College of Architecture Institute for Quality Communities (IQC) Director and Division of Planning, Landscape Architecture, and Design (PLAD) faculty member Amber N. Wiley, Ph.D., recently published a new book, Collective Yearning: Black Women Artists from the Zimmerli Art Museum.
