Regional and City Planning associate professor John Harris recently won the Global Planning Educators Interest Group’s (GPEIG) Best Journal Article Award at the 2019 meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) in Greenville, South Carolina.
The peer-reviewed award, sponsored by GPEIG, is given once every two years to an outstanding journal article on planning and development issues in global context. Criteria for the award include: 1) Making a significant scholarly impact in understanding critical issues facing global planning generally; 2) Taking a novel approach towards data collection and/or analysis; 3) Speaking in a unique or uniquely effective way to practitioners.
The award recognizes Harris’s paper “Vulnerable Youth’s Perspectives and Priorities for Informal Settlements: Photovoice Evidence from Lusaka, Zambia” published in 2017 in the Journal of Planning Education and Research.
The Gibbs Design in Action Awards (GDAA) program, led by Dr. Wanda Liebermann, has announced its 2026–2027 funded student projects. The initiative supports design and research work that addresses social, cultural, and economic issues in the built environment through collaboration with faculty and community partners.
The OU Institute for Quality Communities (IQC) 2024 collaboration with the Historic Threatt Filling Station has been recognized in the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City's newly released Byways Report: The Scenic Route to Rural Prosperity – a story-driven publication exploring how road trip culture and place-based tourism can fuel economic growth in rural communities.
The Gibbs College of Architecture is pleased to announce that Camille Germany, Chief of Staff, has been named the 2026 recipient of the university-wide Jennifer L. Wise Good Stewardship Award.
