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December 01, 2025

OU Urban Planning Professor Selected as Co-Chair for National Planning Interest Group

Dr. Ladan Mozaffarian, Assistant Professor of Regional and City Planning, has been selected to serve as Co-Chair of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) Planners of Color Interest Group (POCIG) for the 2025–2027 term.


June 26, 2025

“We Need to Know What Oklahoma is Doing”: National Recognition for OU’s Planning Program

At a recent American Planning Association (APA) and Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) data session during the 2025 ACSP Administrator’s Conference, Oklahoma was recognized as a national leader in planning education and professional engagement.



January 10, 2025

OU Professor Appointed to AIA National Building Performance Committee

Lee Fithian, Ph.D., AIA, an associate professor of architecture at Gibbs College, has been appointed to the American Institute of Architects (AIA) National Building Performance Committee.


June 04, 2022

CNS Professor Elected to ASC Board of Directors

Dr. Tamera McCuen, Professor of Construction Science, was recently elected to the Associated Schools of Construction’s Board of Directors as the 2nd Vice President. The Associated Schools of Construction (ASC) represents over 150 Construction Management programs in the United States, Canada, and Europe.


April 05, 2022

Landscape Arch. Professor Elected to CELA Board of Directors

Dr. Sarah Little, Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture, has recently been elected as the Vice President for Research and Creative Scholarship with the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA).


December 02, 2021

Architecture Professor Appointed to ICC Subcommittee

Dr. Lee Fithian, an associate professor with the Division of Architecture, was recently appointed to International Code Council’s International Energy Conservation Code Envelope Embodied Carbon Subcommittee.


May 17, 2021

The Gibbs Spotlight: Dean Hans Butzer

This week Dean Hans Butzer (B) joined us in celebrating the one-year anniversary of The Gibbs Spotlight podcast! Hannah Reed (H), a communications intern here at Gibbs sat down with Dean Butzer to discuss how his background as an architect prepared him to take on the role of Dean of the Gibbs College of Architecture.


April 19, 2021

OU Interior Design Student Appointed to Regional IIDA Board

Interior Design student Kaitlin Salisbury was recently appointed to serve as the 2021-2022 Student Representative to the Board for the Texas/Oklahoma Chapter of the International Interior Design Association.


April 19, 2021

Planning Graduate Student Honored with Advocacy Award

Regional and City Planning graduate student Daisy Muñoz was recently honored with a University of Oklahoma “Voices of Inclusion” Advocacy Award. She received the award during a ceremony on Wednesday, April 14, 2021.