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Rocky Branch Artful Restoration – Summer 2018

LAR 524, Summer 2018, Rocky Branch Artful Restoration is an urban creek that runs more than a mile through NC State’s campus and drains into Walnut Creek, a tributary of the Neuse River. Nearly ten years ago, NC State partnered with NC Sea Grant to implement a three-phase restoration project of Rocky Branch.

Kilgore Hall Nano Vineyard

HS 401, Spring 2015, Kilgore Hall Nano Vineyard and Entrance Beautification. In keeping with the department’s teaching mission, Dr. Sara Spayd, the viticulturist collaborated with the class to design and build a trellis for growing grapes. Dr. Sara Spayd teaches the HS 423 Viticulture class, and she wanted to have examples of three grapevine growth types for her students to use during class.

The Peele and Leazar Halls Path Improvements Project

HS357, Fall 2014 - The Peele and Leazar Halls Path Improvements Project was done in collaboration with the office of the NC State University Architect’s Facilities Division as the designer to develop the ‘Path’ for the existing roadbed between Leazar and Tompkins Halls.

H2O Flow environmental art sculpture

HS357, 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.