Stephanie Mitchell

Articles

Community, accessibility, and vulnerability take center stage — Harvard Gazette

Dec 18, 2024 | news.harvard.edu | Stephanie Mitchell

5 min read As you walk past the columns of the Harvard Art Museums and step into the bright light of Calderwood Courtyard, you see a group of 16 people dressed in white. They are arranged in various positions, some standing, some sitting, some using wheelchairs or crutches. They all are wearing garments made of zip ties — plastic spikes protruding at different angles. The forms drape around each performer’s arms, shoulders, legs.
Harvard juniors describe themselves in 3 words — Harvard Gazette

Nov 25, 2024 | news.harvard.edu | Stephanie Mitchell

8 min read Gazette photographer Stephanie Mitchell has been conducting a bit of an experiment inspired by her own college years — specifically the address by Nora Ephron to Wellesley’s Class of 1996 expressing, “You are not going to be you, fixed and immutable you, forever.” She met with a group of Harvard students during their first year and sophomore year, photographed them, and asked them to describe themselves in three words.
Photographer shines light on stroboscopic technique — Harvard Gazette

Oct 29, 2024 | news.harvard.edu | Stephanie Mitchell

2 min read Exceptional student athletes, artists, and performers aren’t hard to come by under the bright lights of Harvard’s sports arenas and performance spaces. These images, however, were taken in the dark — a necessary technical requirement to make images using stroboscopic flash.
Diving into the myths and legends behind sea monsters — Harvard Gazette

Oct 8, 2024 | news.harvard.edu | Stephanie Mitchell

5 min read The idea of sea monsters has captivated us for centuries. Could there really be something scary lurking in the dark depths? Folklore and popular culture say yes, yet science urges us to dive a little deeper.
A microscopic portion of Harvard’s Glass Flowers collection — Harvard Gazette

Sep 9, 2024 | news.harvard.edu | Stephanie Mitchell

3 min read Models created more than 100 years ago may leave some viewers wondering which is more miraculous, the original or the replica? Since April, “The Blaschkas at the Microscope: Lessons in Botany” at the Harvard Museum of Natural History has showcased a series of models produced between 1889 and 1893 by father-and-son of Czech glass artists Leopold (1822-1895) and Rudolf Blaschka (1857-1939).
What to make? Let the wheels decide. — Harvard Gazette

Jul 18, 2024 | news.harvard.edu | Stephanie Mitchell

5 min read Working with clay requires taking risks. A roulette-style game called The Randomizer is helping students avoid the kind of overthinking that can stifle creativity. Decorated with a rainbow and LED lights, the new apparatus, whose home this summer is the entrance to the Harvard Ceramics Program, is not a tool for physically shaping clay, but more a tool for the mind. “Where all your clay dreams come true,” said ceramics instructor Tom Hubbard, laughing.
Midwives Save Lives, but Only if We Let Them

Jun 12, 2024 | msmagazine.com | Stephanie Mitchell |Avital Norman Nathman

We are currently in the midst of a maternal health crisis. Despite being one of the wealthiest and most highly resourced nations globally, the United States continues to struggle with shockingly high rates of maternal mortality and morbidity. Black women in this country are three times as likely to die of pregnancy-related causes than white women, despite no biological differences between the two socially constructed groups.
Dimite la presidenta de Harvard, acusada de plagio y de no gestionar el antisemitismo

Jan 2, 2024 | elperiodico.com | Stephanie Mitchell

Claudine Gay, presidenta de Harvard hasta el 2 de enero de 2024 / La presidenta de la prestigiosa Universidad de Harvard, Claudine Gay, ha dimitido este martes en medio de varias acusaciones de plagio y por sus "dudas duraderas sobre su capacidad para responder al antisemitismo en el campus", afirma el diario de la universidad, Harvard Crimson.
In the United States, the controversy has come amid a rise in attacks and violent rhetoric targeting Jews and Muslims

Jan 2, 2024 | mycouriertribune.com | Stephanie Mitchell

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In the United States, the controversy has come amid a rise in attacks and violent rhetoric targeting Jews and Muslims

Jan 2, 2024 | bellevueheraldleader.com | Stephanie Mitchell

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