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CAHSS’ NIRA Receives Awards at 10th Annual Florida Model United Nations Conference
Members of the 2015 Team who represented NSU at the 10th Annual Florida Model United Nations Conference.
The College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (CAHSS) is pleased to announce that the student group, Nova International Relations Association (NIRA), recently participated in the 10th Annual Florida Model United Nations Conference (FMUN). Despite the fact that most of the group’s founding members graduated last year, the delegation received two awards. Vanessa DuBoulay won the top award for the Security Council, receiving the “Most Outstanding Delegate” for her representation of Malaysia. In addition, the NSU students won the “Distinguished Delegation” award for their overall representation of Malaysia. This award was essentially an award for second place. The delegation competed against a number of colleges including, Florida State University, the University of Florida, the University of Central Florida, and Middle Tennessee University. The participating students included:
Andrew Jones – NIRA President
Vanessa DuBoulay
Chantel Grant – NIRA Secretary
Vincent Biondella
Danielle Zarfati
Alina Palmer
Natalie Guzman
Leigh Ana Mumford
Brandon Chow – NIRA Vice President
Samir Nacer
The faculty advisor for the NIRA is G. Nelson Bass III, J.D., Ph.D., faculty in the Department of History and Political Science. For more information about NIRA, please contact Bass at 954-262-8099 or at nbass@nova.edu