A health worker measures the temperature of a motorcyclist passing through a checkpoint in Goma, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, on Thursday.

A Customs and Border Protection officer at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York.

At a hospital in Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of Congo, the center of a new Ebola outbreak.

A leader at the University of Texas said the institution would be eager to work with the Trump administration. Other universities have been more circumspect.

Top academics in the Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies Department at Columbia University, including Professors Timothy Mitchell and Gil Hochberg, the department’s chair, say the school is committed to the program’s autonomy.

“The consortia for H.I.V./AIDS vaccine development and immunology was reviewed by N.I.H. leadership, which does not support it moving forward,” said a senior official at the National Institutes of Health who was not authorized to speak on the matter and asked not to be identified.

“I think it’s objective to say to you that things will be better in the next 20 years.”

In some cases, the Trump administration has said existing federal law already gives the president all the power he needs to act.

College administrators throughout the country are closely watching whether Columbia responds to the White House with deference or defiance.

Clockwise from top left, Adrien Brody, Ariana Grande, Timothée Chalamet and Zoe Saldaña are on track for nominations. But there are few shoo-ins this year.

President-elect Donald J. Trump has vowed to push a “patriotic” curriculum.

Bird flu has not been transmitted between people, but health care officials are getting ready, just in case.

Pro-Palestinian activists at a rally in Washington in November.