Assistant professor of Regional + City Planning C. Aujean Lee recently published an article entitled “Investing in Non-White Spaces” in the Public Health Post. The article summarizes her research on middle-class ethnic neighborhoods and their potential benefits for homeownership.
Lee’s research focuses on residential segregation and racial disparities in homeownership, wealth and community institutions. She also examines nonprofits in providing social protections to vulnerable communities in uncertain policy circumstances.
Read Prof. Lee’s article here.
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.
