Dr. C. Aujean Lee, an assistant professor of Regional + City Planning, was recently interviewed by NPR reporter Nick Alexandrov for the podcast “Focus: Black Oklahoma.” This KOSU program covers news and public affairs that impact African American and BIPOC communities across Oklahoma.
On the podcast, Dr. Lee discussed her findings about the racial income gap from her report, Oil and Blood: Race, Wealth, and Violence in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In the report, Dr. Lee explores the Tulsa Massacre and its devastating impact on economic equality in Tulsa, which now has one of the largest black-white wealth gaps in the United States.
Dr. Lee was featured on episode 27 of “Focus: Black Oklahoma.”
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.
