By jtsherkLAR 524, Summer 2016, Beginning and Beyond Development Center Entrance Renovation, Raleigh NC. Received 2016 Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Public Service. The North Carolina State University’s summer 2015 classes in Landscape Architecture Construction, Materials, and Methods and Planting Design integrated meaningful community service with instruction and reflection that enrich their learning experience, modeled civic responsibility, and strengthen the community. |NC State, Teaching
By jtsherkHS 401, Spring 2015, Mary Yarborough Court Holliday Hall Landscape Improvements. At the macro scale, the benefits of the urban forest include; 1- improvement of air and water quality, 2- reduction of heat island effect (caused by pavement without shade to be 50-90 degrees hotter than the air), 3- Reduction in stormwater runoff and pollution, 4- capture and long term storage of atmospheric carbon dioxide CO2, (which helps to mitigate and/or defer global warming) 5- increase in aesthetic value, 6- provides human recovery from stress. |NC State, Teaching
By jtsherkHS401, Spring 2013, Polk Hall ‘Heat Mitigation’ Garden. The ‘Heat Mitigation’ Garden is part of the streetscape at the corner of Polk Hall, named for Leonidas Polk (1837–1892), who was instrumental in establishing Land–Grant colleges under the federal Morrill Act of 1862, and helping to established NC State College in 1889. The 1926 building, which has cow heads adorning each door, was renovated in 1987 and an additional built-in 2009. It houses the Animal Science and Biochemistry departments. |Teaching
By jtsherkHS357, Fall 2010 - H2O Flow environmental art sculpture Town of Chapel Hill. In collaboration with the landscape architect and sculptor Dr. Michael Layne, students in Julieta Sherk’s Landscape Design Courses designed and built the artist’s design for an outdoor sculpture that increases awareness of the importance of understanding how man’s actions affect the land.
