Dr. John Arroyo recently visited the OU Division of Regional and City Planning, March 5-6, 2020, to meet with students and give a public talk about his work on Mexican immigrants, immigration policies in the South, and the resulting effects on informal community organizing and the built environment.
His case study of the Atlanta region highlighted the tensions between federal and local engagement of immigrant communities.
Dr. Arroyo is an Assistant Professor in Engaging Diverse Communities at the University of Oregon’s College of Design.
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.
