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.
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
Brooke L. Rapp, BUP ’17
March 13, 2026
The UC Board of Trustees approved $12 million at its Feb. 24 meeting for the design phase of a new Welcome Gateway Building for Uptown campus.
March 11, 2026
Cincinnati recently ranked as the nation’s runner-up for best street art. Spectrum News turned to Hyesun Jeong, assistant professor of urban design in the University of Cincinnati’s School of Art at the College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP), for insights on the tangible impact of these murals.
March 9, 2026
In the mid-1950s Melinda C. Wells Brown moved to Cincinnati to live with her great aunt and became captivated by a collection of miniature Shakespeare plays her great aunt kept on display. Brown came to Cincinnati after the death of her father, and without her great aunt’s guidance and generosity, she would not have been able to continue her education. Her great aunt’s holistic support was instrumental during Brown’s undergraduate studies at the University of Cincinnati — where she worked in the University Library (now known as Blegen Library) and uncovered a deep passion for literature and libraries.
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.
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.
Program Director, Alumni Engagement, College-Conservatory of Music & College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning
