Mark your calendars for the OU Alumni + Friends Reception at the 2024 AIA National Conference! Scheduled for Wednesday, June 5, 2024, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m, Dean Hans…
Tag: Community Engagement
Landscape Architecture Student Honored with ASLA Merit Award
Iman Moradi Naftchali, a student in the Master of Landscape Architecture program, was recently honored with a Merit Award from the Central States chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects.…
Gibbs College Celebrates 2024 Design Activism Awards
On April 22, the Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture celebrated the annual Gibbs Design Activism Awards. The GDAA is a grant initiative that supports student-led design and research projects…
OU Institute for Quality Communities Hosts Route 66 Placemaking Retreat
The OU Institute for Quality Communities recently hosted a Route 66 Placemaking Retreat in collaboration with the OU Arts and Humanities Forum. The retreat was funded by an Oklahoma Humanities…
Gibbs Faculty Awarded EPA Environmental Justice Grant
Open Design Collective, a non-profit organization founded by Gibbs College Professors Vanessa Morrison and Deborah Richards, was recently awarded an Environmental Justice Government-to-Government Grant from the Environmental Protection Agency. The…
Students Visit Taft, OK for Institute for Quality Communities Project
In collaboration with the Institute for Quality Communities, OU Interior Design and Environmental Design students are working on an adaptive reuse project in Taft, Oklahoma. Taft is a small town…
Gibbs Faculty Awarded Grant to Work With Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality
Regional and City Planning faculty John Harris and Charlie Warnken are part of an interdisciplinary team led by the OU Institute for Resilient Environment and Energy Systems. The team was…
Gibbs Students to Help Yukon with Tree Canopy Plan
Each year, OU’s Institute for Quality Communities collaborates with cities across the state on built environment projects that have a positive social impact. During the spring semester, communities are invited to submit…
Institute for Quality Communities Westville Project Awarded TSET Grant
The community of Westville, Oklahoma was recently awarded a Built Environment Grant from the Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust to continue implementing a plan developed by OU’s Institute for Quality Communities. TSET Built Environment grants provide…
Gibbs College Sponsors 2023 Grassroots Women’s Peace Conference in Uganda
During summer 2023, the fourth annual Grassroots Women’s Peace Conference was convened at St. Monica’s Vocational School in Gulu, Uganda. The conference was organized by OU’s Center for Peace and…