Rivka Stone, a senior at Albert Dorman Honors College, will graduate from NJIT on May 26 with a perfect cumulative grade-point average of 4.0. In the fall, Stone, 21, will start medical school at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. She was accepted, on full scholarship, into the university’s accelerated MD/PhD program. A biomedical engineering major, she won an Outstanding Academic Achievement Award from NJIT's biomedical engineering department. >>

Rivka Stone, a senior at the Albert Dorman Honors College majoring in biomedical engineering, was recently accepted into the accelerated MD/PhD program at The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) after just three years of undergraduate study. Her ultimate goal after medical school, she says, is to “use my mind and talents to understand--and therefore conquer--disease." >>