Photo of the Week 2023 | Columbia News

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.

December 2023

Dozens of spectators enjoy the holiday tree lighting festivities at Columbia Manhattanville.

Photo by April Renae

Wishing Our Community Happy Holidays

Dozens of students celebrate festivities at the holiday tree-lighting ceremony at Columbia University.

Photo by David Dini for Columbia College

Engineering Dean Shih-Fu Chang, General Studies Dean Lisa Rosen-Metsch, and Columbia College Dean Josef Sorett smile and pose for the camera in front of a large Menorah on South Lawn at a Menorah Lighting event at Columbia University.

Columbia Engineering Dean Shih-Fu Chang, Columbia General Studies Dean Lisa Rosen-Metsch, Columbia College Dean Josef Sorett. Photo courtesy of Columbia School of General Studies.

Lighting the Night

Four Columbia staff members wearing bright holiday sweaters and holding festive holiday hats and signs while posing for the annual "ugly" holiday sweater competition at Columbia medical center.

Photo courtesy of Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Columbia Gets 'Ugly' With Holiday Sweaters

November 2023

Vibrant yellow autumn leaves overhang above Van Amringe Memorial at Columbia University.

Photo by Eileen Barroso of Columbia's Van Amringe Memorial

Autumn in New York

A student in 1918 wearing a WWI military uniform playing the bugle in front of dozens of uniformed students standing at attention on Low Plaza at Columbia University.

1918 WWI photo courtesy of Columbia University Archives

Saluting Our Columbia Veterans

A vibrant orange-leafed autumn tree between Van Amringe Memorial and John Jay Hall at Columbia University.

Photo by Eileen Barroso

Three Columbia employees (Gregorio Matos, Chef Mike DeMartino, and Ricardo Morales) smile while holding up frozen turkeys in front of an inflated turkey balloon at a Thanksgiving turkey donation drive on 114th Street near Columbia University.

Photo by Bruce Gilbert for Columbia Dining, Columbia Facilities and Operations, and Columbia Community Service; LTR: Gregorio (Greg) Matos, Chef Mike DeMartino, Ricardo Morales

Giving Thanks to Our Neighbors

October 2023

Minouche Shafik, Columbia University's 20th president, gives her Inaugural address on the steps of Low Library. Photo by Diane Bondareff.

Photo by Diane Bondareff/Columbia University

Celebrating the Inauguration of President Minouche Shafik

Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory campus among trees and alongside the Hudson River in Palisades, New York.

Nick Frearson photo of Columbia Climate School's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory campus in Palisades, New York

Discover Earth Science at LDEO's Open House

St. Paul's Chapel with illuminated windows at night alongside Avery Hall and Fayerweather Hall at Columbia University.

Photo by Kelly Moffitt-Hawasly of St. Paul's Chapel at Columbia University.

Reflection and Fellowship

Three children observe a plant as an instructor gives them scientific information at Zuckerman Institute's Saturday Science at Columbia Manhattanville Community Day.

Photo by David Dini for Columbia Neighbors of Zuckerman Institute's Saturday Science at Manhattanville Community Day

Celebrating Manhattanville Community Day

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)

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

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

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

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)

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.

Photo by Will Harahan

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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