Photo of the Week 2026

 

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.

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June 2026

Columbia University student Alena Lipscomb in light blue archery uniform in square stance ready to release an arrow at USA Archery National Collegiate Championships.
Photo courtesy of USA Archery
Arrow-Dynamic Champion

May 2026

Twelve Columbia University student-athletes and coaches in athletic golf uniforms cheer and smile while celebrating with a trophy and a championship banner for the Ivy League Women's Golf Championships.
Photo by Ivy League/Columbia Athletics
Women's Golf Swings Into Ivy Championship
Two university students laugh and play with inflatable jousting hammers to knock each other off raised pedestals at Night Carnival event at Columbia University.
Photo of Residence Hall Leadership Organization (RHLO) Night Carnival by Eileen Barroso for Columbia College
Joust Do It!
Hundreds of graduating university students and faculty in caps and gowns are seated at Columbia University’s 1926 graduation Commencement on Low Plaza with Low Library, Earl Hall, and Lewisohn Hall in the background at Columbia’s Morningside campus.
1926 photo by Hal Steffen / University Archives, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University Libraries
100 Years of Outdoor Commencements
Musician Jon Batiste wearing light blue Columbia regalia sings while playing at a piano in front of thousands of graduating university students in Columbia regalia on a sunny day at Columbia University.
Jon Batiste and Columbia’s Class of 2026 photo by Diane Bondareff
Celebrating Columbia’s Class of 2026 With Jon Batiste!
Two Columbia graduating students (Dana Clarke and Paul Randall) dressed in white naval uniforms cut a ceremonial cake with knives at their NROTC commissioning ceremony at Columbia University Faculty House.
Photo by Brandon Vallejo for Columbia's Office of Military & Veterans Affairs
Cutting the Ceremonial Commissioning Cake

April 2026

Several Columbia University students and coaches in basketball uniforms and WBIT Champions t-shirts smile as they hold up their index fingers behind a trophy and signage for 2026 WBIT Champions on a basketball court scattered with light blue and white confetti.
Photo courtesy of NCAA/Getty Images
WBIT Champions!
Several university students, Columbia lion mascot, chefs, and dining staff members celebrate and pose with dining awards for two top prizes at Columbia University's Battle of the Dining Halls.
Photo by Eileen Barroso for Columbia Dining
Battle of the Dining Halls
A professor and several university students sit on grassy South Lawn and engage in a class circle setting with Pulitzer Hall and Dodge Hall in the background on a sunny spring day at Columbia University.
Photo by Eileen Barroso
Class Is in Session (Outdoors!)
A white church with red roof and tower against snowy mountains in Iceland on a sunny day.
Somewhere in Vik, Iceland. Photo by Muhamad Ababil Akram, MS in Sustainability Management and Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment / Columbia Climate School & Columbia School of Professional Studies
Earth Day, Every Day

March 2026

Skyline view of Columbia University Morningside campus with red-brick buildings and green rooftops as well as snow covering the grounds and Manhattan's skyscraper skyline in the background under a partly cloudy sky.
Photo by Nate Robinson (GS’26)
Spring on the Horizon
Three university students wearing long flowing white dresses dance in unison with raised graceful hands on illuminated pink and purple ramps at Lerner Hall for Glass House Rocks at Columbia University at night.
Photo by Mark Carosiello for Columbia Undergraduate Life
Glass House Rocks
Eleven women (including Hillary Clinton, Sheryl Sandberg, Keren Yarhi-Milo, and Sierra Leone First Lady Bio) smile and pose on stage at a Columbia University Institute of Global Politics event.
Photo by Siobhan Mullan for Columbia SIPA's Institute of Global Politics. LTR: Mabel van Oranje, Lucie Cluver, Rachel Vogelstein, Sheryl Sandberg, Faith Mwangi-Powell, H.E. First Lady Dr. Fatima Maada Bio, Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton, Columbia SIPA Dean Keren Yarhi-Milo, Jennifer Klein, Rachel Glennerster, Nayana Chowdhury
Women's Initiative to Empower Girls
Several medical students with family members and friends joyfully celebrate Match Day news at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, with one medical student holding a "Match" card displaying the words "Psychiatry" and "Columbia" in the middle of the group.
Photo by Eileen Barroso for Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
Joyous Match Day

February 2026

Columbia University's illuminated Morningside campus with New York City's skyscraper skyline in the distance against an orange-colored sky at dusk.
Photo by Lenny Pridatko
Campus in the City Panorama
Several Columbia University student-athletes and coaches in athletic uniforms smile and pose while celebrating with a trophy at the Ivy League Fencing Championships.
Photo courtesy of The Ivy League
All Foil One Fencing Champs
Several Columbia University student-athletes and coaches in athletic uniforms cheer and smile while celebrating with a trophy for the Ivy League Wrestling Championships.
Columbia Athletics photo by Stockton Photo, Inc.
Wrestling Pins Down Championship Title
Aerial of Columbia University Morningside campus in snow at sunset.
Photo by Lenny Pridatko
Sun Sets Over a Blizzard

January 2026

A snowman on snowy South Lawn with Butler Library in the background at Columbia University.
Photo by Diane Bondareff
Freeze a Jolly Good Fellow
Thirty-three university student-athletes in Columbia University sports uniforms pose in front of the Unisphere in Queens, New York City, at dusk.
Columbia Athletics photo by Michael F. McLaughlin, Mark Smith, and Carlisle Stockton of Stockton Photo, Inc.
31 Teams, 1 Columbia, 1 New York City
A crane lifts a large container in a snowy Antarctic landscape under a bright sun for a Columbia University research experiment.
GAPS (General AntiParticle Spectrometer) balloon experiment photo by Gianluigi Zampa
To the Ends of the Earth for Dark Matter
Several university students walk and converse on College Walk with snow people on South Lawn nearby at Columbia University on a sunny winter day.
Photo by Eileen Barroso
Winterful Welcome Back
Two university students laugh joyfully while sledding down Low Library steps at Columbia University during a snowstorm.
Photo by Diane Bondareff
Snow Much Fun on Low Slopes!

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