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.

September 2023

Ten students with Columbia President Minouche Shafik smile and cheer as they welcome new students to Columbia University.
Photo by Sirin Samman for Columbia Housing
Welcome Home, Columbians!
Dozens of students dance while wearing headphones at a silent disco at night on Low Plaza at Columbia University.
Photo by Eileen Barroso for Columbia University Life
Low-Lapalooza Lights Up Low Plaza
Panoramic view of Low Library and Earl, Lewisohn, & Dodge Halls from Barnard College on a cloudy sunset evening at Columbia University.
Photo by Abhishree Pandey (BC'24)
At Home in the Clouds
1903 photo of Alma Mater statue unveiling ceremony with dozens of attendees in front of Low Library at Columbia University.
1903 photo courtesy of University Archives, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University Libraries.
Happy Birthday, Alma!
Teachers College President Thomas Bailey, Columbia President Minouche Shafik, and Barnard President Laura Rosenbury posing while holding up light green Sustainable Columbia shirts near Lenfest Center for the Arts at Columbia Manhattanville.
Teachers College President Thomas Bailey, Columbia President Minouche Shafik, and Barnard President Laura Rosenbury. Photo by Eileen Barroso.
A Sweeping Effort to Clean Up Broadway

August 2023

Construction-scaffolded Butler Library with a decorative stone urn in the foreground on a cloudy summer day at Columbia University.
Photo by Vikrant Kumar (PhD student, Columbia Engineering)
Summer at Columbia
Dozens of dental students in white coats smile and pose in front of blue Columbia signage as their friends and family take photos of them at Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
Photo by Charles Manley for Columbia University College of Dental Medicine
Our Newest Dental Students Are All Smiles
Five Columbia medical students are putting on their white medical coats in front of six faculty members in white coats at Columbia's Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons' White Coat Ceremony.
Photo by Eileen Barroso for Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
Welcome to the World of Medicine
Two students working on a STEM experiment at Columbia University.
Photo by Chris Taggart for Columbia Engineering
Summer STEM Fellows

July 2023

Fifteen students in light blue shirts pose while holding a long hybrid rocket on a sunny day.
Photo courtesy of Columbia Space Initiative: Victor Barros (SEAS‘23), Jorge Casas (CC‘23), Bhoomika Kumar (SEAS‘23), Trevor Le (SEAS‘23), Nikita Manjuluri (SEAS‘23), Axel Ortega (SEAS‘23), Bruno Rergis (SEAS‘23), Gabrielle Rivera (BC‘23), Tycho Bogdanowitsch (SEAS‘24), Mike García (SEAS‘24), Ryan Wu (SEAS‘24), Alex Chen (SEAS‘25), Ania Krzyżańska (SEAS‘25), Valentina Marini Fichera (SEAS‘25), Michael Sheehan (SEAS‘25), Nick Walker (SEAS‘25), Aadam Awad (SEAS‘26), Skylar Bogdanowitsch (SEAS‘26)
What a Blast!
Seven First Ladies of Africa. First Lady Jill Biden, and alum Cora Neumann pose and smile on stage flanked by two African flags in front of Global First Ladies Alliance signage at Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
Photo by Michael DiVito for Columbia Mailman School of Public Health (LTF: Neo Jane Masisi, First Lady of Botswana; Fatoumatta Bah-Barrow, First Lady of Gambia; Rachel Ruto, First Lady of Kenya; Jill Biden, First Lady of the U.S.; Monica Geingos, First Lady of Namibia; Cora Neumann, Founder of Global First Ladies Alliance; Monica Chakwera, First Lady of Malawi; Isaura Gonçalo Ferrão Nyusi, First Lady of Mozambique; Auxillia Mnangagwa, First Lady of Zimbabwe)
First Ladies Advance Public Health Leadership
Dozens of Columbia Med employees and neighbors gather on summer-flowered-lined Haven Plaza under and near a big white tent for an ice cream social on an overcast day at Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
Photo by Lucas Hoeffel for Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Ice Cream! Just What the Doctor Ordered
Dozens of Columbia Community Service grantees smile and pose for the camera in the lobby of The Forum at Columbia Manhattanville.
Photo by Bruce Gilbert for Columbia Community Service
Columbia Community Service Welcomes Grantees

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
Hundreds of Columbia alumni celebrate their reunion on Low Library steps and under a huge party tent on Low Plaza with illuminated Butler Library in the background at Columbia University on a partly cloudy moonlit night.
Columbia Friends Reunited
Central Park pond reflected with and lined by green trees and skyscrapers on a cloudy day in New York City.
Photo by Javad Omidi (SEAS PhD candidate)
Tree-mendous Perks
Columbia President Lee Bollinger in profile smiles with a Columbia University scoreboard in the background at Baker Athletics Complex on a partly cloudy day.
Photo of President Bollinger by Eileen Barroso (circa 2005)
Thank You, President Bollinger
Six people pose and smile as they cut the ceremonial ribbon to an opening of a great hall at the Columbia Global Center in Paris.
Photo by Ferrante Ferranti (LTR: Gerald Rosberg, Senior Executive Vice President, Denise Campbell Bauer, U.S. Ambassador to France, Paul LeClerc, Judith Ginsberg, Brunhilde Biebuyck, Director of Columbia Global Centers | Paris, Wafaa El-Sadr, Executive Vice President for Columbia Global)
Reid Hall's Grande Salle in Paris: Restored

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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