Newsmaker: Amanda Weiss

Amanda Weiss, a rising fourth-year biotechnology and molecular bioscience major from Commack, N.Y., is the 2019 student recipient of the Norman A. Miles Scholarship. The university-wide award recognizes her as the junior with the highest grade point average. Weiss picked her mentor, Maureen Ferran, an associate professor in the Thomas H. Gosnell School of Life Sciences in the College of Science, to receive the companion Norman A. Miles Award for Academic Excellence in Teaching and matching award. Miles, former director of national development, retired from RIT in 1994 after 17 years on campus. He created the scholarship to recognize the critical impact of the student-teacher bond in the success of learning.