In June, Dr. John Harris and students of Regional + City Planning traveled to northern Uganda with the OU Center for Peace and Development (CPD) this past month to aid in the organization of a women’s grassroots peacebuilding conference in Gulu. The conference brought together 78 women from all five sub-regions of Northern region, Uganda to discuss ongoing sources of conflict in their communities and their priorities for action. The students assisted the conference by facilitating discussions, recording information, and compiling reports, briefs, and action items. The conference is part of the CPD’s commitment to learn from and work with grassroots organizations in post-conflict northern Uganda, especially around issues of gender equity.
The peacebuilding conference has also been featured by the OU Daily.
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.
