Urban Design professional and Community Advisory Board Member Paul Dentiste recently celebrated his 90th birthday while visiting New York.
Paul is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Master of City Planning program and has served in many capacities in his long career, including: Urban Planner for the Fourth Naval District in Philadelphia, Executive Director of the Birmingham, Alabama Regional Planning Commission, and Head of Comprehensive Planning in Wilmington, Delaware, where he became acquainted with a young County Councilor named Joe Biden.
Paul is a long-serving member of the Community and Professional Advisory Board. He has been instrumental in the development of the Real Estate coursework at the Urban Design Studio.
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.
