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College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning Alumni

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Welcome, DAAP Alumni

The College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP) Alumni Network offers meaningful ways to stay engaged with your college, reconnect with professors and classmates, and remain part of the broader UC Alumni Association community. With more than 22,500 DAAP alumni shaping industries locally and around the world, our network is filled with inventive thinkers and bold creators. We invite you to continue sharing your story, participating in alumni experiences, and strengthening the creative community that makes DAAP extraordinary.

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DAAP Alumni Council

The College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning Alumni Council is an advisory volunteer group that supports the UC Alumni Association and the College. Council members serve as thought partners, engagement ambassadors, and advocates for DAAP alumni initiatives. Members contribute through a variety of opportunities—including, but not limited to, DAAPX and DAAPmade—and help shape, promote, and support programs and activities that strengthen lifelong connections between alumni and the college. 

2025-26 DAAP Alumni Council Members

  • Patti C. Weller Bresler, BSDE ’94
  • Joell Angel-Chumbley, SEGD, MFA ’00
  • Christopher S. Graham, AIA, BARC ’01
  • Peter W. Huster, BSDE ’94
  • Dominic Iacobucci, BS ’04 , MARC '06

  • Brooke L. Rapp, BUP ’17 

DAAP Alumni Events

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DAAP Alumni News

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Electrical engineering alumna honored for influential work

January 9, 2026

Jean Savage has spent decades making an impact in the manufacturing and rail industries in top roles. Savage was honored by the University of Cincinnati College of Engineering and Applied Science with the Herman Schneider Distinguished Alumni Award. This award honors one outstanding alumnus each year whose career has reflected a large measure of acclaim on our academic departments and disciplines they represent.

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World class: Alumni travel program connects Bearcats on global scale

January 7, 2026

Most people have a natural curiosity to see the world. Meanwhile, most Bearcats enjoy being around other Bearcats. Alumni can check both boxes through the UC Alumni Association’s travel program, which offers about half a dozen excursions each year to fascinating places around the globe.

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UC launches Bearcat Affordability Grant

January 7, 2026

The University of Cincinnati is making college more attainable for students across Ohio with the creation of the Bearcat Affordability Grant. The new grant will provide a pathway to tuition-free college for students of families who make less than $75,000 per year. Beginning in fall 2026, the Bearcat Affordability Grant will cover the remaining cost of tuition for Ohio residents who are Pell eligible.

Support the Next Generation of Creatives

DAAP is committed to shaping a more thoughtful, inspired, and innovative visual and design environment. Through exceptional academic programs, research, creative work, and community partnerships, our faculty, students, and staff work together to advance this mission. Alumni support helps empower future designers, artists, architects, and planners as they create meaningful work and drive the creative fields forward.

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This network is open to all University of Cincinnati alumni, regardless of race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, or any other class or status protected by applicable law.

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Marie Morgan, A&S '21

Program Director, Alumni Engagement, College-Conservatory of Music & College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning

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