When attorneys for Mahmoud Khalil enter the Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse in New York on Wednesday, they will have one mission in mind: to get their client, a Palestinian activist, released from an ICE facility in Louisiana and back to New York to be closer to legal counsel and family.
It's still unclear the total number of grants, dollars and people affected, but the cuts could be a harbinger of what’s to come at other universities.
Columbia University faces $400 million cuts in NIH funding due to allegations of antisemitism under a Trump administration directive.