Author: Nelson Rosario

It’s simple to completely miss the building when driving in Hillsborough along Route 206. It doesn’t have an imposing tower or a large parking structure to announce its existence. Just a low brick facility with a modest sign that reads Hillsborough Radiology, tucked between the everyday rhythm of a New Jersey suburb. You wouldn’t notice it if you drove by it a hundred times until you needed it. That contributes to the operation’s intrigue. Hillsborough Radiology is a partnership between Princeton Radiology and University Radiology, two names that carry weight in central New Jersey’s medical community. The partnership isn’t heavily…

Harvard emerged victorious once more. For those who follow these things, that isn’t exactly shocking news. Beyond the obvious headline that Cambridge, Massachusetts, outperformed more than 2,250 universities in more than 100 countries, the most recent U.S. News & World Report rankings for radiology, nuclear medicine, and medical imaging contain some information worth considering. The narrative is conveyed by the scoring alone. Harvard reported a flawless subject score of 100. Johns Hopkins completed the top three at 83.9, while Stanford trailed at 87. It’s not a photo finish; there’s a real gap. It’s the kind of margin that indicates Harvard…

Once an influencer reaches a certain level of fame, there’s a certain kind of online curiosity that follows them. For Bridgette Pheloung, the creator of “Acquired Style,” this curiosity has recently focused on one particular question: where did she attend college? It turns out that the answer is more important than most people thought because that campus served as more than just a setting for her twenties. Her whole love story started there. On June 29, Pheloung, 29, shared a video that had been pieced together from her wedding day to announce that she and her longtime partner Mitch McHale…

Stephen Hawking did indeed have ALS. When the diagnosis was made in 1963 at a hospital in London, he was twenty-one years old. The prognosis was straightforward: two years, possibly less. He would go on to live with the illness for fifty-five years, a period of time so dissimilar from the typical course of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis that experts in the field are still perplexed. The nerve cells that regulate voluntary muscle movement are attacked by ALS, which is sometimes referred to as Lou Gehrig’s disease in the US. Usually, it moves along quickly. Only roughly 10% of patients survive…

The majority of people first come across the term ALS through a well-known name, just like they do with the majority of rare diseases. First baseman Lou Gehrig of the New York Yankees retired from baseball in 1939 after his body began to betray him in ways that no one could figure out. In two years, he passed away. The fact that physicist Stephen Hawking endured the same illness for over 50 years decades later tells you something crucial right away: ALS does not have a set course. A disorder of the nervous system, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis primarily affects motor…

There is a certain type of athlete who goes unnoticed until all of a sudden he becomes unavoidable. Among them was Chris Johnson. After graduating from Olympia High School in Orlando, Rivals.com awarded him two stars. For a child who would go on to run the fastest 40-yard dash in NFL Combine history, two stars. It serves as a reminder of how flawed recruiting rankings can be and how frequently stopwatches catch what the eye test misses. Johnson chose East Carolina over USF, UConn, and Eastern Kentucky, none of which were particularly well-known at the time. However, he felt that…

In a way, it seemed appropriate that the paperwork came on a Friday. The small Catholic college Anna Maria College, which is nestled in the rural hills of Paxton, Massachusetts, officially declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy, confirming what many on campus had suspected for weeks. Those who had been paying attention were not surprised by the filing. It simply proved it. A business or organization does not always immediately vanish under Chapter 11. It rearranges itself. While it devises a strategy to pay creditors over time, it is still able to borrow money and continue to operate in some restricted capacity.…

Usually, it begins in the same manner. When someone logs into StudentAid.gov, they expect to see a regular check on their repayment plan, but instead they see a message about scheduled maintenance with a date that is weeks in the past or a blue dot that keeps spinning. June 7 arrived and vanished. Several promised return times of 4 p.m. Eastern, 5 p.m. Eastern, and nothing at all followed. This is not a small annoyance for a website that millions of borrowers rely on to manage federal student loans. It’s the distinction between making an educated choice and speculating. To…

During the college application season, many American families end up writing the number 1-800-433-3243 on a sticky note. When it was first assigned, someone in a government communications office probably thought it was clever to spell it out as 800-4-FED-AID. It continues to function. For millions of students and parents who have nowhere else to turn, it remains, as far as anyone can tell, the front door to federal financial aid. It’s simple to underestimate the amount of uncertainty surrounding financial aid until you’ve sat down with someone who is attempting to understand it. Uncertain if the number in the…

There was never just one room in Sadie Sink’s classroom. Her parents were a football coach and a math teacher, and she was raised in a home that prioritized discipline over attention. She was born in Brenham, Texas. When you consider it, it’s a strange combination: jazz hands and audition tapes on one side, numbers and tackles on the other. Sink was enrolled in acting classes in Houston by the time he was seven years old, fitting rehearsals around whatever education Texas provided for a child from a small town. Her early community theater roles, such as her participation in…