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.
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.
In May, students from the Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture's Architecture, Environmental Design, and Interior Design programs participated in an intensive five-day Studio in Residence at Taliesin West, the iconic winter home and desert laboratory of Frank Lloyd Wright.
