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.

Laura Blankfein, BC ’75, will serve as chair of the Barnard board of trustees effective July 1, President Laura Rosenbury announced in a Thursday news release. Blankfein assumes the position from Cheryl Glicker Milstein, BC ’82, who served as chair for eight years.

The philosophy department released a statement on its website Wednesday condemning the detainment of Palestinian student and activist Mohsen Mahdawi, GS ’25. Mahdawi, a philosophy student, is set to graduate next month before pursuing his master’s degree at the School of International and Public Affairs.

Columbia and Barnard students studying political science will only be allowed to take introductory classes at their home school for introductory credit toward their major or minor starting next academic year.

A group of Davidson College alumni and students have published a petition demanding the removal of Barnard Dean Leslie Grinage, who graduated from the college in 2003, from Davidson College’s board of trustees.

In advance of a Friday immigration hearing for Mahmoud Khalil, SIPA ’24, in which a Louisiana judge will rule to either continue or terminate his deportation proceedings, members of his legal team held a Thursday press webinar hosted by the American Civil Liberties Union to discuss the upcoming decision, which they said would have “momentous implications.”

Four Barnard faculty expressed to Spectator support for the college’s recent curriculum changes, which require Barnard first-years, beginning with the incoming class of 2029, to complete most of their first-year requirements and Modes of Thinking at the college.

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.