The 2019 Baruch College commencement ceremony celebrated its 50th anniversary and awarded degrees to over 3,800 undergraduate and 1,200 graduate students on June 3 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn.

On June 24, the CUNY Board of Trustees met at Baruch College and voted almost unanimously to raise tuition for all CUNY students, effective immediately. The members of the board purposely avoided the stares of student protesters as they walked into the building to do it.

Baruch College’s chapter of the Golden Key International Honor Society was labeled inactive by the Office of Student Life early in June due to the chapter’s failure to elect an executive board.

Welcome, incoming Bearcats! Baruch College has a lot of great things to offer each and every new student, though a cafeteria is not one of them. For students too busy or just not willing to cook their own food, Manhattan can be an expensive place to eat. 

The 2020 presidential race is in the works, and many are candidates vying for the Democratic seat, including New York City’s very own mayor, Bill de Blasio. Ever since announcing his candidacy, de Blasio has received a great deal of backlash, especially from New Yorkers. 

In NBC’s medical drama Chicago Med, the character Samuel Abrams, portrayed by Brennan Brown, is a brilliant neurosurgeon who is able to step in and save lives. 

On May 7 at the NYCB Theatre in Westbury, Barbara Corcoran spoke to an audience of about 1,000 people on how to reach success. 

The MTA rolled out its new One Metro New York turnstile pilot program on May 31 to test out a new method of payment. Using OMNY, commuters will no longer have to use a MetroCard to swipe into the station — instead, they will tap a “contactless” credit card, debit card, smartphone or smartwatch onto scanners called validators.

Home-share companies are expanding into the hotel industry, it is becoming increasingly difficult for hotels to compete. Marriott International combatted the overtake by joining the competition. The hotel chain confirmed its plans to expand their company and create a new home-rental business named Homes and Villas by Marriott International aimed at targeting Airbnb and other home-share companies.

As a hidden pillar of pop over much of the past decade, producer Mark Ronson takes center stage and diverts from his signature upbeat funk style to wearing a broken heart on his sleeve with his fifth studio album, Late Night Feelings.

Taylor Swift is the subject of another online debate following her 2019 Billboard Award performance.

The quality of modern video games can truly be mind-boggling, and is enjoyed all over the world. Making up a $100 billion industry with two out of every three American households playing games, it is amazing to think that in just a few decades, the technology has improved so much. However, everything has to start somewhere and video games had their beginnings on computers the size of rooms.

Coffee is what keeps New York running in the morning, but it could also lead to changes in the energy industry. 

In a recent study by the University of California, Los Angeles and scientists at Solargiga Energy, a Chinese manufacturing enterprise for photovoltaic products, caffeine could be a viable replacement for materials in solar cells. 

The United States is facing a shortage of STEM workers. In the modern race for high-tech supremacy, these fields are essential in progressing innovative ideas and technologies. Though research in life sciences such as biology and physiology results in products that save and change lives, only 6.4 percent of Fall 2017 CUNY students were enrolled in science programs. 

Google and Apple lead the future prospect of gaming as they announce ambitious plans to build virtual stadiums readily available for everyone to enjoy.

Scientists from the University of California, Berkeley and the University of California, San Francisco, adopted a new method of creating speech from brain signals, which could improve communication for people with speech impairments.

With the rise of sugar-filled foods this past decade, health is an increasingly major concern to the average person. In 2004, McDonald’s supersized menu items were denounced for their high sodium and calorie count, eventually getting taken off the menu.

With the rise of the digital age, technology has become a necessity for all ages and a staple in everyday life, but now scholars are skeptical of its negative impact on teen mental health.

We are surrounded by plastic every day of our lives, from the moment we wake up in the morning to the moment we go to sleep. Our morning routines consist of washing our face, brushing our teeth and taking a shower. In such a short amount of time, we have used at least five items made of plastic, from our toothbrush to our face wash, and we haven’t even taken a second to notice.

A new tick is in town. The Asian longhorned tick population has been rapidly reproducing in Staten Island, becoming a danger to the residents. A female Asian longhorned tick, in essence, clones itself, because it can reproduce asexually and lay 1,000 to 2,000 “clone” eggs at a time, reported Columbia News.

Post-apocalyptic efforts are not all science fiction; the “doomsday vault” is proof of that. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, located in the collection of Norway’s islands known as Svalbard, is a safe underground location, which holds most of the world’s seeds, according to a CNN article.

It has become a tradition as old as time — the Metropolitan Division of the National Hockey League spending another offseason getting dangerously stronger.  This year feels a bit special, however, with the New Jersey Devils and the New York Rangers taking Jack Hughes and Kaapo Kakko as first and second picks overall in the 2019 NHL draft, respectively. 

As of June 2019, things do not seem to be in order for the New York Mets. Injuries combined with lack of production have soured a season that was once weighed with positive expectations. 

Almost twenty years ago, on a blazing hot summer afternoon in Pasadena, California, more than 90,000 spectators had their eyes set on one of the most-attended women’s soccer games. That was the 1999 Women’s World Cup Final, with the host United States playing China at the Rose Bowl.