Lumen scientiae — the last phrase of the university’s Latin motto, Verbum vitae et lumen scientiae — means “light of knowledge.” Light also provides remarkable, mutable beauty across campus as the sunlight moves throughout each day and season.
Campus photographer Jamie Betts, who took these images, has an eye trained to notice the light — where it is, where it isn’t, and where shadows and illumination dance together.
“There is a 20-minute window when the sun turns into a high-end lighting rig, and everyone looks like a movie star,” Betts said. “It’s the hour of long shadows and glowing skin — when even a cracked sidewalk looks like a masterpiece, and we’re all just chasing the light before the blue hour steals the show.”
