International Relations Association Gets Several Awards

The Nova International Relations Association (NIRA) housed in the Department of Humanities and Politics (DHP) in the Halmos College of Arts and Sciences and the Guy Harvey Oceanographic Research Center (HCAS) participated in the 17th Annual Florida Model United Nations Conference (FMUN) in Gainesville, FL.  NSU received eight awards, the highest they have ever won at this conference.

Eighteen undergraduates (16 members of the POLS 2400 class and two returning members including NIRA President Mohammed Husain). At the conference they competed against other universities from across Florida and Georgia. Despite being the smallest group of returning delegates, just 2, and the rest being first time participants, they won 8 awards!

NSU swept the highest award category – Outstanding Delegation for Meroshah Khan and Alexis Lass (Australia) and Paula Rey and Ivanna Cortez (Colombia).  Rey also won an Outstanding Delegate award for her work marking her as the best delegate in her committee.

Hailee Delgado and Olivia Jones won a third-place award (Honorable Award) for their representation of New Zealand. There were also numerous individual awards: Jordan Parris, Kiara Colman, and Emily Velazquez won awards for their position papers, and Alexander Trofimov won the award for most improved delegate in his committee.

For more information, please contact advisor, G. Nelson Bass, Ph.D. at nbass@nova.edu

Posted 12/11/22