Acting University President Claire Shipman, CC ’86, SIPA ’94, announced in a Monday email to the Columbia community that the International Students and Scholars Office is increasing its staff to “expand programming and support” for Columbia’s international community.

Dozens of pro-Palestinian students and alumni gathered in front of the 116th Street and Amsterdam Avenue gates on Monday, with at least three tethering themselves to the gates with bike locks and one arrested.

Staff at the National Institutes of Health have been instructed to freeze all federal grants to Columbia and a handful of other institutions until further notice, according to an internal email published by Nature and an exclusive report by ScienceInsider.

A group of Jewish demonstrators chained themselves to the gate near St. Paul’s Chapel on Wednesday, calling for the University to “provide the name of the trustees who reported Mahmoud Khalil” to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.