Students in the Regional and City Planning (RCPL) course entitled “Planning with Diverse Communities,” recently collected more than 800 signatures from people who pledged to fill out the 2020 Census.…
Month: July 2020
Gibbs College Faculty Receive Grant to Create Multidisciplinary Think Tank to Help Engage Local Community
Gibbs College faculty Deborah Richards, assistant professor of Architecture, and Vanessa Morrison, affiliate faculty in Regional and City Planning, have partnered with Dr. Andrea Benjamin from the Clara Luper Department…
Regional and City Planning Assistant Professor Awarded Grant to Explore Systemic Racial and Gender Disparities in the Academic Research Enterprise
Gibbs College of Architecture assistant professor Dr. C. Aujean Lee recently received a grant from the University of Oklahoma’s Office of the Vice President for Research and Partnerships (VPRP) to…
Scissortail Park wins Engineering News-Record Award in Landscape/Urban Development
Oklahoma City’s Scissortail Park recently won the Engineering News-Record (ENR) Texas & Louisiana‘s “Best Project” award in the Landscape/ Urban Development category. The park was designed by Hargreaves Associates in collaboration…
Architecture Faculty Member Publishes Research on Climate Change Communication
Assistant professor of Architecture Angela Person recently coauthored the article “Climate Change Communication: Examining the Social and Cognitive Barriers to Productive Environmental Communication,” published in Social Science Quarterly. The research…
Architecture Professor Shares Aging in Place Strategies with Occupational Therapy Graduate Students
Associate Professor of Architecture, Dave Boeck recently had the opportunity to share his expertise in adapting environments to support aging in place with Occupational Therapy students at the University of…
Gibbs College and BlackSpace Oklahoma Host “Rethinking Education for a More Equitable World” Webinar
Building on the conversations about the future of design pedagogy that were started during the March 2020 “Schools of Thought” conference, the Gibbs College of Architecture at the University of…
Gibbs Spotlight: Wenwen Cheng, Landscape Architecture
In Fall 2020, GCA assistant to the directors Camille Germany (C), sat down with Wenwen Cheng (W), a new Landscape Architecture professor at OU! Wenwen shared the current projects she is working…
Gibbs Spotlight: Suchi Bhattacharjee, Interior Design
GCA assistant to the directors Camille Germany (C), sat down with Suchi Bhattacharjee (S), Interior Design professor at OU! Suchi shared her educational journey and the current projects she is working on!…
Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture Releases Handbook on Designing Public Spaces for Young People
Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at Gibbs College of Architecture, Sarah Little, has released her co-edited handbook, The Routledge Handbook for Designing Public Spaces for Young People: Processes, Practices, and…