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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 professor and Institute for Quality Communities Director Dr. Amber N. Wiley’s book, Model Schools in the Model City: Race, Planning, and Education in the Nation’s Capital, has received two major honors from the Urban History Association.
Research initiated by Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture alumna Naila Hasan during her master’s studies at the University of Oklahoma has continued through faculty collaboration and resulted in a peer-reviewed publication in HERD: Health Environments Research & Design Journal.
Gibbs College of Architecture is pleased to announce Esther Thorp, Tyler Boydstun and Chukwuma Nwokoye as the winners of the 2026 Construction Innovation Translation Hub (CIThub) Student Ideas Competition.
