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Regional and City Planning alumni Gina Sofola and Vanessa Morison, PhD Student Eyakem Gulilat, and Assistant Professor of RCPL, Dr. John Harris recently made an hour-long presentation entitled “Brown Women and the Built Environment: Telling Truth to Power Through Photovoice” at the 2017 Zarrow Mental Health Symposium in Tulsa. The presentation discussed findings of the Women of Northeast Oklahoma City Photovoice Project that looked at the impact of neighborhood conditions on the mental health of African American women. The audience consisted of mental health professionals from around the United States.
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.
In May, students from the Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture's Architecture, Environmental Design, and Interior Design programs participated in an intensive five-day Studio in Residence at Taliesin West, the iconic winter home and desert laboratory of Frank Lloyd Wright.
