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.

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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