Festive Fall Fête

Five university students and faculty members smile and pose with Columbia's lion mascot holding up a photo of them with jack-o'-lanterns as heads at Columbia University Irving Medical Center.

November 21, 2025

To celebrate fall, Columbia University Irving Medical Center members and Washington Heights neighbors gathered for CUIMC's annual Fall Festival, all in a flurry of snow! Friends and colleagues captured the spirit of the season with warm soup, live jazz, a winter squash giveaway, and a friendly competition in which the CUIMC community was invited to submit fall photos. Check out the first-place "Jack-O'-Lab-Interns" photo, above, created by members of Columbia's Department of Pathology and Cell Biology.

For more photos, video, and story, here is CUIMC's recap.

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