Photo of the Week 2024

 

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

December 2024

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 Diane Bondareff for Columbia Facilities and Operations
Happy Holidays!

November 2024

Several college students and alumni dressed in light blue Columbia shirts and holding up "Go Lions!" paw signs cheer while posing for the camera at Columbia University Homecoming.
Photo by Eileen Barroso for Columbia College
Go Lions!
Scholars' Lion stone sculpture is surrounded by orange fall leaves at Columbia University on an autumn day.
Photo of Scholars' Lion by Eileen Barroso
Mane Fall Attraction
Columbia General Studies military veteran students waving on a parade float with Dean Lisa Rosen-Metsch at the 2024 Veterans Day Parade in New York City.
Photo by Brandon Vallejo for Columbia General Studies
Saluting Columbia Veterans
The Thinker statue on Columbia's Morningside campus under a cover of fall leaves.
The Thinker photo by Eileen Barroso
Autumnal Reflection
Several Columbia football players hoist an Ivy League championship trophy and hold a championship banner in celebration at Columbia's Baker Athletics Complex.
Photo by Stockton Photo/Columbia Athletics
Ivy League Football Champs at Last!

October 2024

Wamkele Mene, Secretary-General of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), speaks at a podium on stage in front of hundreds of audience members in Low Rotunda at Columbia University World Leaders Forum.
Wamkele Mene, Secretary-General of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). Photo by Eileen Barroso.
Global Leaders, Local Stage
A green pond with a turtle on a rock in the foreground and trees and event tents in the background at Morningside Pond in New York City.
Photo by Brandon Vallejo
Renewing Morningside Park's Pond and Waterfall
Three smiling university students pet a fluffy tan-colored dog with the dog handler in the background at a dog therapy study break session at Columbia University.
Photo by Michael DiVito
Paws and Play
A large silver-colored inflatable sculpture named cloud as an art installation on the plaza by Avery, Fayerweather, and Schermerhorn halls at Columbia University. 
Photo by Nicholas Knight for Columbia GSAPP.
Silver Linings

September 2024

Five students and staff in Columbia blue scrubs smile and hold up glasses of lemonade at Treats on the Plaza at Columbia University Irving Medical Center's Haven Plaza near a table with lemonade.
Photo by Michael DiVito
It's a Treat to Meet You!
Hundreds of students sit in Lerner Roone Arledge Cinema ready to watch the Kamala Harris & Donald Trump presidential debate on a big screen at Columbia University.
Photo by Michael DiVito
Make Your Plan to Vote!
Dozens of people stand in a number 75 formation with eight rays of sun extended from the center at Columbia University Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York, on a sunny day.
Photo by Austin Chadwick & Marco Tedesco at Columbia Climate School's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, NY
Lamont Rocks at 75
Dozens of people on a parade through Morningside Park carry colorful illuminated handmade lanterns which are reflected in the pond on a warm night in New York City.
Morningside Lights' procession in Morningside Park photo by Cherylynn Tsushima for Columbia's Miller Theatre and Arts Initiative
‘Morningside Lights’ Celebrates NYC Art

August 2024

Four fencers in blue USA uniforms smile while holding their Olympic gold medals on the podium in a packed stadium in Paris.
LTR: Jackie Dubrovich, Maia Weintraub, Lauren Scruggs, Lee Kiefer. NCAA photo via Getty Images.
Golden Hour
A woman smiles and puts a red tomato in a bag held by a produce vendor at the Farmers' Market at Columbia Medical Center.
Photo by Michael DiVito
Locally Grown Foods & Healthcare Resources
Several geese on large rocks along the East River at Muscota Marsh with the Columbia C Rock in the distance
Photo by Kelly Moffitt-Hawasly (TC'24)
Honk If You've Been to Muscota Marsh
A student wearing blue lab gloves uses a scientific instrument to put a specimen onto a lab slide for observation as a professor looks on at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute.
Photo by Sirin Samman for Columbia's Zuckerman Institute
'BRAINYACs' at Zuckerman Institute
Several students in light blue shirts jump and cheer at the entrance of Columbia University, decorated with balloons displaying Columbia's name.
Photo by Eileen Barroso
Welcome, Columbians!

July 2024

New York City skyline of Empire State building, Chrysler Building, and other skyscrapers with white fireworks illuminating the sky on July 4th.
Photo by Haoyang Yu (SEAS’20)
Star-Spangled Sky
Several people smile and pose with Columbia President Shafik at a reception for White House Fellows in Low Library at Columbia University
Photo by Eileen Barroso. White House Fellows: Lauren Cherry, Monica Dus, Martha Esparza, Ryan Fraser, William Godwin, Anna Gunn-Golkin, Yuwynn Ho, Michael Hole, Craig Johnson, Kamal Menghrajani, Beau Muniz, Hang Sin Pheiffer, Mariah Sklyr, Bryan Smith, Elizabeth Verardo, Rosemarie Vela, Esteban Tapetillo, Kevin Lavery.
White House Fellows
Dozens of Columbia Community Service grantees smile and pose for the camera in the lobby of The Forum at Columbia's Manhattanville campus.
Photo by Michael DiVito of the 77th Annual Appeal's Columbia Community Service (CCS) grantees and the CCS team.
Celebrating Columbia Community Service Grantees
Three women smile and hold up popsicles at Columbia University Irving Medical Center's Ice Cream Social on a hot summer day.
Photo by Lucas Hoeffel for Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Popsicles Are the Best Medicine

June 2024

White and purple summer flowers and greenery in flower beds with Low Library in the background at Columbia University on a cloudy day.
Photo by Kelly Moffitt-Hawasly (TC'24)
Sumptuous Summer
Several Columbia University students in light blue shirts pose while holding a long hybrid rocket on a sunny day in the Mojave Desert.
Photo courtesy of Columbia Space Initiative
Blast Off
Four children play and splash in the water sprinkler in front of Kravis Hall at Columbia Manhattanville's campus on a hot sunny day.
Photo by Sirin Samman
Splash Zone
Marcus G. Langseth Research Vessel docked at Brooklyn Navy Yard on a sunny day.
Photo of Marcus G. Langseth Research Vessel by Francesco Fiondella
Marcus G. Langseth Maps the World’s Oceans

May 2024

Long cloud formations and bright sun in blue sky above icy glacier and lake at Grey Glacier and Grey Lake in Torres del Paine National Park in Chile.
Grey Glacier in Chile's Torres del Paine National Park photo by Josephine Parr for Columbia Climate School
This Beautiful Planet
Several men's baseball players in Columbia blue uniforms smile and pose with a trophy and Ivy League 2024 Champions sign at Columbia's Baker Athletics Complex.
Photo by Josh Wang/Columbia Athletics
Ivy League Baseball Champs Swing for the Fences
Seven students wearing light blue graduation regalia cheer and roar while holding inflatable balloon lions at Columbia College Class Day.
Photo by Eileen Barroso
Roaring Into Graduation Celebrations
Four Columbia students in NROTC are commissioned on May 16, 2024.
Photo by Michael DiVito for Columbia's Office of Military & Veterans Affairs
A Commissioning to Remember
A sculpture of the Great God Pan and a French bulldog at Columbia University.
Photo by Kelly Moffitt-Hawasly (TC'24)
A Summer Symbol to Relax

April 2024

Pink magnolia flower blossoms with Butler Library in the background on a sunny spring day at Columbia University.
Photo by Eileen Barroso
Flower Power
Columbians wearing eclipse glasses gather on Low Steps on Monday, April 8, 2024, to view the partial solar eclipse at Columbia University.
Photo by Eileen Barroso
Solar Eclipse Extravaganza
Fifteen Columbia Bundles Community Scholars from Upper Manhattan pose and smile with A'Lelia Bundles who founded the program.
Photo by Bruce Gilbert for Columbia Neighbors
11 Years of Bundles Community Scholars
Twelve men's tennis players in Columbia blue uniforms smile and pose with their index fingers up to show that they are Ivy League champions.
Photo by Ashton Daniel Robertson/Columbia Athletics
Game. Set. Match. Ivy Champs!

March 2024

Columbia University's illuminated Morningside campus with New York City's skyline in the distance on a cloudy night.
Photo by Jay Patel (SEAS'24)
Mystical Metropolis
Six "faculty wives" who volunteered as Columbia Community Service's gift shop committee in the 1950s.
The 1951 Gift Shop Committee of Columbia Committee for Community Service. Lolita Mollman Finch is pictured center, holding a fan. Photo by Manny Warman/Columbia University Archives.
Celebrating the Women of Columbia Community Service
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg receiving a 1994 honorary degree from Columbia President Rupp in front of Alma Mater statue and Low Library at Columbia University.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (LAW'59, HON'94) receiving a 1994 honorary degree from Columbia President Rupp. Photo by Joe Pineiro/Columbia University Archives.
Honoring Legendary RBG
Six students celebrate and pose with letters and photos during Columbia's Vagelos & Physicians annual Match Day for residencies at Columbia Medical Center.
Photo by Eileen Barroso/Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Perfect Matches
Several students, chefs, and Columbia Dining staff members celebrate and pose with a dining award for top prize in Battle of the Dining Halls at Columbia University.
Photo by Eileen Barroso/Columbia Dining
Food Fight Champs

February 2024

Ballet dance pioneer Arthur Mitchell leaps across the stage in a 1985 Dance Theatre of Harlem production.
Photo courtesy of Dance Theatre of Harlem/Columbia University Archives
Dance Trailblazer Strikes a Pose
Nine students in dance attire glide across stage in a synchronized dance in celebration of Lunar New Year.
Photo courtesy of Columbia China Dance and SinoVision.
Soar Into Year of the Dragon
A group of Columbia fencers celebrate while posing and holding two Ivy League championship trophies and signage at Columbia University.
Photo by Stockton Photo/Columbia Athletics
Ivy Champs Times Two!
Harlem artist Beau McCall holding up his hands adorned with artistic buttons.
Artist Beau McCall photo by Rohit Venkatraman
Button Man Beau McCall

January 2024

33 Columbia University student-athletes in light blue team uniforms pose in front of Revson Fountain at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts at night in New York City.
Photo by Columbia University Athletics/Stockton Photo, Inc./Michael F. McLaughlin and Mark Smith (courtesy of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts)
31 Sports Teams, 1 Columbia
The bronze Tightrope Walker statue by Kees Verkade of one walker on the shoulders of another on Revson Plaza against a blue sky at Columbia University.
Photo by Eileen Barroso
Tightrope Walking Across the Sky
Morningside campus showing Low Library, South Lawn, Pulitzer Hall, and other buildings blanketed in snow at Columbia University.
Photo by Oshmita Golam (CC'25)
Brrring on the Snow
Mission Spiritus Antarctica polar explorers Alan Chambers and Dave Thomas raise a Columbia Climate School Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory flag as they pose at the South Pole after completing their polar ice trek.
Photo courtesy of Mission Spiritus
Mission Spiritus Antarctica Accomplished

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