Wesleyan College Model UN team picks up awards

Wesleyan’s Model United Nations team won several awards at the recent Southern Regional Model UN Conference in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Competing against some 40 colleges and universities, Wesleyan's France delegation won Distinguished Delegation and Outstanding Position Papers awards, and Wesleyan’s Greece delegation won an Honorable Delegation award. In the General Assembly committee, Wesleyan’s France and Greece delegations both were named Outstanding Delegation, an honor conferred on only three countries out of 60.

Senior Brittany Pye served on staff at the conference. Serving on staff means acting as a director or assistant director of a committee, working for months ahead of the conference researching and preparing the committee background guide, and then facilitating committee proceedings during the three-day conference.

Shamilar Sarwar served as head delegate of the team representing France. Other members included Brittany Friedel, Ruthy Leon, Victoria Sun, Krissy Dennard, Delia Beristain and Fatima Khan. Katlynn Cross served as head delegate of the team representing Greece. Other team members included Yijie Zhang, Thu Nguyen, Jialing Li, and Brooke Bray. Barbara Donovan, professor of political science, serves as faculty advisor for the Model UN team and accompanied the students to the competition.

This story was originally published April 22, 2016 at 12:01 PM with the headline "Wesleyan College Model UN team picks up awards."