Alumni

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


DAAP Alumni News

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Jes Cornelius appointed UC Foundation Vice President of Information and Enterprise Risk

February 17, 2026

The University of Cincinnati Foundation is pleased to announce that Jes Cornelius is its new Vice President of Information and Enterprise Risk. Cornelius has a comprehensive background leading enterprise wide technology transformation, strengthening digital strategy and driving operational excellence across complex, large scale organizations.

2

Designing Access

February 17, 2026

Faculty-led collaboration brings typography, wayfinding and public input to transit infrastructure.


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

513-558-4428