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During the Spring 2025 semester, students in Prof. John Harris‘s “Community Development” course worked with Tulakes Neighborhood Ministries to offer recommendations for their site needs and possible paths for future development.
The students completed a site visit on April 7th to learn more about the history and priorities of Tulakes Neighborhood Ministries and to meet with their leadership, food pantry staff, and medical clinic staff. The students’ final presentation included information on zoning, financing strategies, local demographic data, possible site designs, and information about look-alike organizations for expanded services. The students made their final presentation to the executive director of Tulakes Neighborhood Ministries, Celia Palmer, on May 7, 2025.
The project was undertaken in collaboration with the OU Institute for Quality Communities and the Regional Foodbank of 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.