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Valerie Sherry is pursuing a Masters degree in Architecture at the University of Maryland. She has experience as a designer, architect, builder, project manager, building scientist (energy modeler), and entrepreneur in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) Industry. She is a CPHC (Certified Passive House Consultant), LEED AP and International Living Futures Institute member.=== <br/> ===
Valerie has a technical background in high performance building skins, and systems design. Now that she is in design school, she works in the Fabrication Lab and is learning the power of design thinking as both a valuable innovation process as well as a tool to communicate complex ideas to diverse audiences. She is eager to apply her design tools, technology and training towards the creation of meaningful spaces around campus in order to promote information sharing, innovation and entrepreneurship.=== <br/> ===
Valerie hopes to empower colleagues at the University of Maryland to initiate change and implement ideas. She recently founded the interdisciplinary campus organization, Design Impact Lab, at the University of Maryland. She is passionate about bridging seemingly disparate groups and connecting people with diverse expertise in order to enhance communication and promote cross-fertilization between fields. Her recent appointment to the curriculum committee for the University of Maryland’s School of Architecture will be a platform to discuss and help implement methods for improving design education.=== <br/> ===
Valerie played Division I Lacrosse <span style="font-size:medium;">'''Serving as an undergraduate at Brown University and graduated in 2009 with a BA in Architectural Studies. She was a member of the Women’s Leadership Council and Women’s Launch Pad mentorship program geared towards connecting student and mentor interests. As a student at Brown, she facilitated a campaign to build smokeless stoves in the Dominican Republic to reduce respiratory illness and promote job creation in five rural villages. Her experience in the Dominican Republic led her to further investigate links between design, public health, engineering, entrepreneurship and construction methods.UIF Since:''' Fall 2013</span>
She enjoys drinking coffee at all times as it is positively central to sustained happiness. In her spare time<span style="font-size:medium;">'''School: '''University of Maryland, she enjoys outdoor sports and traveling.College Park</span>
[http<span style="font-size:medium;">'''Contact her about:''' pop up classes, designing learning experiences, maker spaces, SPACE in general, language as a mechanism for inclusion, brainstorming, reaching marginalized groups, working with faculty & administrators, catalyzing faculty learning communities, her love of travel or just because! <//wwwspan> <span style="font-size:medium;">'''Email: '''valeriesherry3@gmail.slideshare.netcom</mkwilcox/uifspan> <span style="font-introductionsize:medium;">'''Phone: '''(410) 790-7356</span> Valerie is a former University Innovation Fellow who graduated from University of Maryland, College Park for graduate school in 2015 and joined Hord Coplan Macht Architects in their education design studio. Valerie now designs learning environments and experiences, especially relating tohigher education, including creating ways for students and university stakeholders to connect & converge in spaces on campus. At the University of Maryland, Valerie joined the University Innovation Fellows program in the Fall of 2013 to explore ways to reach across disciplines and engage fellow university community members in cultivating an entrepreneurial mindset. Her work at UMCP began with pop-valerieup classes and pop-sherry http://wwwup student gatherings to promote project based learning, passion projects, and the coming together of traditionally silo’d discipines that had been marginalized from the innovation and entrepreneurial learning opportunities sponsored at the school at that time.slideshare Her main goal was to spark creative thought and action by bringing people together to solve wicked problems.net/mkwilcox/uif This goal soon led to founding the Maryland Design Impact Lab (mDIL) – a cross disciplinary student-introductionfocused lab where ideas could be tested and teams formed to pursue applied social impact projects through the use of a variety of techniques including Lean Start up and design thinking. Meanwhile the growing Academy for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at UMCP began in the fall of 2013. Through Valerie’s UIF training and landscape canvas analysis of the I&E landscape at UMCP, she came across the amazing AIE and partnered to become part of the growing team of Design Thinking Facilitators whose mission was to engage all 35,000 undergraduates in innovation and entrepreneurship through curriculum. Her work at UMCP involved bridging students and faculty and helping university stakeholders realize how their respective disciplines could contribute to and navigate within the innovation and entrepreneurship resources on campus in order to demonstrate the power of their ideas turned to action -tocatalyze change in the world. Valerie’s work now involves ethnographic research, stakeholder engagement, designing, prototyping and helping institutions design their plan for future spaces on campus. Valerie works from planning and visioning phases through to construction administration to bring spaces from concept to reality. Valerie is currently also helping to facilitate research as part of a core team working with a broader team of architects, students, school administrators, neuroscientists, behaviorial scientists, and industry partners to explore the emotional, physiological, and psychological benefits of biophilic design and how it might improve human health and well-valerie-sherrybeing. We are specifically considering how biophilic design might reduce stress and enhance creativity in the context of learning environments. Valerie holds a B.A. in Architectural Studies from Brown University as well as a Masters in Architecture from University of Maryland, College Park. video link == Related Links == [[University of Maryland College Park|UMD College Park]] [[University of Maryland College Park Student Priorities|UMD College Park Student Priorities]] [[Category:Student Contributors|v]]
KCVelaga moved page Valerie (Sherry) Caruolo to Fellow:Valerie (Sherry) Caruolo
<span style="font-size:medium;">'''What she does now:''' Architectural Designer, Hord Coplan Macht (HCM Architects), Researcher (HCM/Salk Institute)</span>
<span style="font-size:medium;">'''What that means:''' …''<u>Architecture:</u>''' '''''I design learning environments, spaces and experiences (especially for Higher Education Institutions and public/private sector work environments)! ''''' '''<u>Research:</u>'' I am part of a core research team considering how biophilic design might impact learning. Biophilic design ties together nature, human biology and design, highlighting aspects of nature that most impact human satisfaction in the built environment. </span>