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Monitoring a constant stream of messages while focusing on one task is challenging, explains Baruch College's Raquel Benbunan-Fich. "You need to be aware and sustained [from distractions] at the same time in order to be productive," she said.

Explore CUNY's seven two-year colleges and earn an associate degree that opens the door to a bigger and better salary. Hear from our students and learn more about our programs: cuny.edu/twoyear

It's been almost 58 years since Martin Luther King, Jr.'s landmark commencement address at The City College of New York, which he delivered on June 12, 1963, just hours after the assassination of Medgar Evers in Mississippi. In his speech, Dr. King urged us to remember that we are bound to each other regardless of race, nationality or politics. He said: "No nation or individual can live alone in the modern world. We must all learn to live together as brothers or we will all perish together as fools." They are timeless words, as true today as they were then, and well worth remembering on MLK Day and every other day of the year.

Did you know that Rev Run from the legendary hip hop group Run DMC enrolled at LaGuardia Community College to study mortuary science in the 1980's? #MotivationMonday

Stephen Somerstein was a 24-year-old photographer at The City College of New York when he traveled to Alabama to document the 1965 Selma to Montgomery Civil Rights March. Over the course of five days, Somerstein shot about 400 photographs. In 2014, CUNY web editor Beethoven Bong produced this video using Somerstein's photography. It won a New York Emmy Award for outstanding historical/cultural program feature.

Brooklyn College theater professor Justin Townsend has been nominated for two Tony Awards for his lighting design on the hit Broadway musicals Jagged Little Pill and Moulin Rouge The Musical - Broadway.

With Election Day less than two weeks away, Queens College students Karol Vigoya and Lisbeth Bustos are working non-stop to make sure all New Yorkers know when and where to vote.

Baruch College's Bridgett M. Davis offers some historical insight behind the new season of Fargo.

Increased anxiety and stress from COVID is real. Your mental health is as important as physical health. Bookmark our student guide to access a list of mental health resources, services and tips. cuny.edu/fall2020

CUNY is doing our part to bring back the city we love by making sure we protect each other and wear masks. #MaskUpCUNY to show the skeptics that you can never kill New York.

Building Design+Construction gives New York City College of Technology (City Tech) News Academic Building their Gold Award, describing the facility as the "an epicenter of STEM education at CUNY."

A research trip to Brazil taken by David Gruber of Baruch College sparked the idea for a new study on why so-called "sea pickles" or pyrosomes reverberate in blue-green light.

For five months in 1946from March 25 until August 15, when the United Nations moved to another temporary home at Lehman Collegethe eyes of the world often turned to this corner of the Bronx. http://ow.ly/j5kX50BXOsE

"We need to understand that we have the power to come together and use our voices to vote for elected officials who understand and represent our communities. This is our right and I fully intend to make sure I am playing my part, said John Jay College of Criminal Justice student Michelle Cevallos. http://ow.ly/7QRq50BY4lb

As Tim Hunter's term as USS CUNY chairperson and student trustee comes to an end, we share Chancellor Félix V. Matos Rodríguez's message of thanks. Tim's steadfast leadership and advocacy for students led CUNY through an extraordinary year, We wish him the very best and we can't wait to see what the future holds for him. Thank you, Tim!

Read Brooklyn College student Billie Rae Johnson's powerful personal essay "Me, My Mom, and Her Mental Illness." http://ow.ly/DG9r50BY492

When a New York shelter removed breed labels from dogs’ adoption cards, it helped dogs of all breeds find new homes more quickly, a new study found. The Hunter College authors suggest that other shelters would do well to follow suit.

What a thrill to see Dance Theatre of Harlem perform in front of The City College of New York's iconic Shepard Hall. http://ow.ly/mdaO50C0aTy Video courtesy: Dance Theatre of Harlem