Photo of the Week 2023

 

Columbia News's Photo of the Week captures moments from around the University and New York City. The series is curated by University Photographer Eileen Barroso and Jennifer Pellerito.

June 2023

The sun setting on 42 Street between tall buildings in New York City during Manhattanhenge.
May 29, 2023 photo by Haoyang Yu (SEAS'20)
Manhattanhenge: Only in New York

May 2023

1926 graduation Commencement setup on Low Plaza with hundreds of chairs at Columbia University.
1926 photo by J. Boldtman / University Archives, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University Libraries
Nearly 100 Years of Outdoor Commencements
One hawk in flight and another hawk in a nest at the clock of Havemeyer Hall at Columbia University.
Photo by Joseph Goddu
Hawk O’Clock at Havemeyer Hall
President Lee Bollinger and President-Designate Minouche Shafik, both dressed in Columbia regalia, embrace on stage with hundreds of graduates looking on at Columbia Commencement on a sunny day.
President Bollinger and President-Designate Shafik photo by Eileen Barroso.
Passing the Columbia Torch
Several students in conversation near two illuminated inflatable canopies on either side of Avery Hall entrance at Columbia University at dusk.
Photo by Nicholas Knight/Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Come Play at Goo, Hug, and Worm Canopies

April 2023

A view flanked by two Low Library center columns toward Alma Mater statue and Butler Library with dozens of students sitting on Low Library steps and South Lawn fields on a cloudy day at Columbia University.
Photo by Javad Omidi (SEAS PhD candidate)
Gateway to Spring
Nine people in suits and work attire smile and pose to cut the celebratory opening ribbon in front of a blue Columbia University medical and dental van in Upper Manhattan in New York City.
Photo by Chris Balmer/Columbia University Irving Medical Center
New Mobile Health Clinic Set to Roll
A student in headphones paints a bright-colored canvas in a sunny room in Dodge Hall at Columbia University.
Photo by Eileen Barroso/Columbia University
Painting in Dodge
Columbia Mailman Dean Linda P. Fried speaking at a podium on stage with Columbia Mailman centennial signage flanked by two big screens of the dean speaking at the Columbia Mailman Centennial Gala.
Columbia Mailman School of Public Health Dean Linda P. Fried (Photo by Bruce Gilbert/Columbia University Irving Medical Center)
Centennial Gala Celebrates Public Health Leadership

March 2023

Five snow duck peeps on the Sundial sculpture with Low Library in the background on a cloudy winter day at Columbia University.
Photo by Sirin Samman/Columbia Alumni Relations and Development
Snow Peeps
Several Columbia women's basketball players smile and hold up the Ivy League championship trophy in front of hundreds of fans in the bleachers of Levien Gym at Columbia University.
Photo by Mike McLaughlin/Columbia Athletics
'C' Is for Champions!
A colorful rainbow arches in a partly cloudy blue sky from the Northwest Corner Building and Pulitzer Hall over Low Library and Uris Hall at Columbia University.
Photo by Navya Shah (CC'26)
Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Two medical students holding opened letters and envelopes smile and embrace each other as they learn where they have matched for their medical residency as family, friends, and other students smile and celebrate all the graduating medical students at Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
Photo by Eileen Barroso/Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Match Day Celebration
Three pink magnolia flowers suspended from a branch with Butler Library in the background at Columbia University.
Photo by Kelly Moffitt-Hawasly/Columbia University
Magna Magnolia

February 2023

Snowy Morningside campus from John Jay Residence Hall showing Low Library, Hamilton Hall, Dodge Hall, College Walk, South Lawns, and other buildings at Columbia University on a partly cloudy winter day.
Photo by Arthur Hoefliger (CC'26)
Brrring On Winter
Low Plaza, Kent Hall, and Hamilton Hall against a cloudy orange sky during sunrise at Columbia University.
Photo by Danny Marquez (SIPA staff, SPS'23)
Paint the Sky
Dozens of students sit on the Low Library steps (Low Beach) while socializing or studying on a sunny warm winter day at Columbia University.
Photo by Kevin Dale Photography/Columbia University
Spring Vibes at Low Beach
Twenty CU Generation hip-hop team members dance on illuminated purple, pink, and blue ramps at Lerner Hall for Glass House Rocks at Columbia University at night.
CU Generation dance team at Glass House Rocks photo by Eileen Barroso/Columbia Lerner Hall Operations & Event Management
Rocking the Glass House

January 2023

The bright full moon glows above Columbia University's Havemeyer and Math Plaza near Scholars' Lion statue with a view of Barnard College's illuminated library in the distance.
Moonstruck
Martin Luther King Jr. with "Owl" editor Wally Wood and other Columbia students at Columbia University in 1961.
Martin Luther King Jr. with "Owl" editor Wally Wood (GS'88) (center) and other Columbia students in 1961. Photo by Lawrence J. Howell, courtesy of Wally Wood and Columbia University Archives.
Martin Luther King Jr. at Columbia
Columbia student-athlete Kaitlyn Davis smiles while holding up a light blue basketball jersey with the name "Minouche" for Columbia's next president Minouche Shafik who is smiling and clapping her hands in Lerner Hall at Columbia University.
Photo by Eileen Barroso/Columbia University
Welcome to the Team
Alma Mater statue with the sun shining on her left hand on a bright sunny day at Columbia University.
Photo by Kevin Dale (GS'25)
Alma Shines Bright

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