Photo of the Week 2022

 

Columbia News's Photo of the Week captures moments from around the University and New York City as a way to virtually bring our community together. The series is curated by University Photographer Eileen Barroso and Jennifer Pellerito.

December 2022

A crowd gathers on the lighted holiday tree-lined plaza in front of Jerome L. Greene Science Center and Lenfest Center for the Arts at Columbia Manhattanville at night.
Photo by Eileen Barroso
Wishing Happy Holidays to Our Community
Dozens of students gather to celebrate the holiday season as trees alongside College Walk are illuminated with festive white lights in the evening at Columbia University.
Photo by April Renae/Columbia University
Holiday Lights on Winter Nights
Columbia University's illuminated Morningside campus with New York City's skyline in the distance with a partly-cloudy sky at dusk.
Photo by Mina Jo (SEAS'26)
Columbia in the City of New York
Festive Christmas lights hanging on lampposts across Harlem's 125th Street at night.
Photo by Kevin Dale Photography
Harlem Holiday Sparkle

November 2022

Vibrant yellow and orange leaves overhang from trees above the statue of "The Thinker" on Columbia's Morningside campus.
Photo by Siddharth Dasgupta (CS'23)
Autumnal Thoughts
Columbia General Studies military veteran students waving on a parade float with Dean Lisa Rosen-Metsch at the 2021 Veterans Day Parade in New York City.
Columbia GS veteran students with Dean Lisa Rosen-Metsch and Student Veteran Initiatives' David Keefe. 2021 photo by Sirin Samman.
We Salute Our Columbia Veterans
Columbia President Lee C. Bollinger speaks at a podium on stage in front of dozens of spectators at the Obama Foundation Democracy Forum.
Columbia President Lee C. Bollinger photo by Eileen Barroso
Obama Foundation Hosts Democracy Forum
Four people holding Thanksgiving turkey donations and standing on the steps of Broadway Community Church in front of an open red door in Morningside Heights, New York City.
Broadway Community Church photo by Kevin Dale Photography/Columbia University Facilities and Operations.
Thanksgiving Turkeys for Our Neighbors

October 2022

Low Library against a blue sky from inside Butler Library at Columbia University.
Photo by Jack Shi (SPS'22)
Room With a View
President Bollinger and Columbia students prepare and stretch to run the 5K Fun Run in Riverside Park in New York City.
President Bollinger and other Columbia runners in a 2002 photo by University Photographer Eileen Barroso.
Fun Running Columbia for 20+ Years
A dozen yellow, orange, and green chairs casually set up on the small square in front of the Lenfest Center for the Arts with yellow leaves prominently in view from the nearby trees at Columbia Manhattanville on a sunny autumn day.
Photo by Kelly Moffitt-Hawasly
Falling for Manhattanville Community Day
A dozen Columbia cheerleaders in light blue uniforms cheer in a pyramid and splits formation in front of hundreds of spectators at Columbia's Homecoming football game at Robert K. Kraft Field at Baker Athletics Complex in upper Manhattan.
Columbia Homecoming 2022 photo by Kathy Fang/Columbia University Athletics.
Cheers to Our Lions

September 2022

Eleven students grouped together smile through a large Welcome Home Lions! picture frame on the Sundial in front of Butler Library at Columbia University on a summer day.
Photo by Olivia Namkoong (CC'23)
Welcome Home, Lions!
Dozens of students sit on Low steps and watch an outdoor film screening at night with Butler Library in the distance at Columbia University.
Photo by Eileen Barroso/Columbia University
Best Seats Outside the House
Astronaut Mike Massimino in space smiles while pointing to his Columbia shirt.
Photo of astronaut Mike Massimino, courtesy of NASA
An Astronaut Lands at San Gennaro Festival
COP26 President Alok Sharma in navy blue suit speaks at a podium with Columbia signage and banner in front of U.N, U.S., and British flags on stage at Columbia University Low Library.
President of COP26, The Right Honourable Alok Sharma, MP. Photo by Eileen Barroso
A Global Stage at Columbia's World Leaders Forum
Dozens of people carrying colorful illuminated lanterns alongside hundreds of spectators at night in front of Butler Library at Columbia University.
Photo by Adrienne Stortz for Columbia's Miller Theatre and Arts Initiative.
Morningside Lights Illuminates the Night

August 2022

Rays of sunlight illuminate the summer sky behind Columbia's Northwest Corner Building and Havemeyer Hall
Cheng Gong (SEAS PhD candidate)
Rays of Light
Uptown Night Market festival with people enjoying food and music under the arches of the aqueduct near Columbia Manhattanville.
Photo by Cole Giordano/Columbia University
Celebrate the Vibrancy of Harlem
A bee on an orange and white-pedaled flower in front of the Allan Rosenfield Building at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health.
Photo by Anne Foulke Toner (Mailman School of Public Health/CUIMC)
Buzz Worthy
Six Columbia medical students in white coats stand in front of six faculty members in white coats at Columbia's Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons' White Coat Ceremony.
Photo by Michael DiVto (Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons/CUIMC)
Officially White Coated

July 2022

The Manhattan skyline at night with skyscrapers lit up for Pride.
Photo by Haoyang Yu (SEAS'20)
Carrying Pride Forward
Archival image of an artificial moon hanging from the dome of the Low Library rotunda.
Courtesy of Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University Libraries
Moon Glow Library
The Manhattan skyline at sunset during Manhattanhenge.
Photo by Haoyang Yu (SEAS'20)
Behold Manhattanhenge
A young child in diapers and hat playing in a water sprinkler next to Kravis Hall on a hot sunny day at Columbia Manhattanville in New York City
Photo by Eileen Barroso
A Splash of Joy
Columbia's oldest and largest tree sits illuminated in the dark in front of the Math building in July.
Photo by Haoyang Yu (SEAS'20)
Oldest Resident: Math Tree

June 2022

Alma Mater statue with a sign "Gay Dance" on Columbia University's Morningside campus
Pride of Lions
Eric Kandel with friends and family wearing red bow ties
That's a Wrap ... With a Red Bow Tie on Top
Butler Library lit blue for 2022 alumni weekend, Columbia University
Columbia Blue
Summer sunset on college walk
Solstice Sunset

May 2022

Blue and white inflated sculpture, WEB, in GSAPP's spring seminar, on Morningside campus, Columbia University
Get Caught in A Web
Preparing for 2022 commencement at Columbia University
Are You Ready?
Columbia graduates holding up inflatable lions at commencement, May 2022
Grads Came Roaring Back to Campus
Midshipmen at Columbia University, 1942
Honoring Those Who Have Sacrificed for Our Country

April 2022

Frozen fountain on Low Plaza, Columbia University
Frozen Fountain in Spring?
Three students studying at desk in a room with floor to ceiling glass windows
Elevated Study Session
Columbia University infielder Bubba Gleaves dives for a ball in softball game against Yale
Dive Into Spring
White tulips in bloom
Our Beautiful Planet
Statue of lion in front of a blossoming cherry blossom tree, Columbia University
In Like a Lion?

March 2022

Low Library illuminated with the colors of the Ukrainian flag
In Support and Solidarity
President Lee C. Bollinger speaking to an audience about Ukraine in Low Library
Panel Discussion on Ukraine
A view of South Lawn and Butler library through balcony at Low Library.
Sunny Spring Break Slow Down
Medical students looking at pieces of paper showing where they matched
Match Day Merriment

February 2022

Igloo on Morningside campus
Snow Much Fun!
Biobus students
Hands-On Science Program Returns to Harlem
Low Library at dawn
A New Day Dawning ... With No Tent
Tree with ice on Columbia's Morningside campus
'O Wind, If Winter Comes, Can Spring Be Far Behind?'

January 2022

Snow day, 1949, Columbia Mining
Snow Day!
Snowmen on Morningside campus
One Happy (Snow) Family
Columbia men's basketball with cutouts
Ready for the Fans to Return
Columbia Business School, Manhattanville
Open for Business

PAST YEARS' PHOTO OF THE WEEK

Photo of the Week 2021
Photo of the Week 2020