2018 OU B.Arch graduate Collin Abdallah was recently awarded the Robert Bradford Newman Medal Award for excellence in acoustics based on his 2017-2018 contributions to Associate Professor Butko’s Gallery Acoustics Research Project (also known as the “sOUnd lab”). The medal, funded through the Acoustical Society of America Newman Fund, was accompanied by $300 and a variety of architectural acoustics books. Collin is the fourth OU student to receive this prestigious award since 2011.
For more information about acoustical research at OU, please contact Dan Butko (butko@ou.edu).
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.
