Master of Urban Design student Sherry Marie Smith presented her Professional Project to the City of Coweta City Council on May 3, 2021.
Sherry’s project included the planning, programming, and design of a new municipal park. Located on a beautiful wooded site in the Coweta Creek floodplain, Cottonwood Park will feature a playground, a picnic grounds and shelter, a dog park, pollinator gardens, and much more. Sherry identified two grants to fund the park’s construction that the city hopes to apply for this summer.
Congratulations, Sherry!
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.
