{"id":146663,"date":"2024-02-12T10:19:53","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T15:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=146663"},"modified":"2024-02-13T08:18:35","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T13:18:35","slug":"wright-state-model-u-n-team-delivers-strong-showing-at-dayton-competition-heading-to-nationals-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2024\/02\/12\/wright-state-model-u-n-team-delivers-strong-showing-at-dayton-competition-heading-to-nationals-in-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Wright State Model U.N. team delivers strong showing at Dayton competition, heading to nationals in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_146668\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2024\/02\/12\/wright-state-model-u-n-team-delivers-strong-showing-at-dayton-competition-heading-to-nationals-in-new-york\/dayton-model-un\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-146668\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-146668\" class=\"size-large wp-image-146668\" src=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2024\/02\/Dayton-Model-UN-508x279.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"253\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-146668\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wright State students won nine committee awards, three best-in-committee paper awards and best overall at the 31st Dayton Model United Nations Conference.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Wright State University\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/liberal-arts.wright.edu\/social-sciences-and-international-studies\/model-united-nations-program\">Model United Nations team<\/a> made a strong showing at the 31st Dayton Model U.N. Conference held at Sinclair Community College.<\/p>\n<p>Wright State students won nine committee awards:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Eliza Hendrix, international and comparative politics, Outstanding Delegate in Simulated Security Council<\/li>\n<li>Murphy Vanbalen, political science, Distinguished Delegate<\/li>\n<li>Coen Lucas, political science, Honorable Mention in Security Council<\/li>\n<li>Molly Holloway, entrepreneurship, Honorable Mention in Security Council<\/li>\n<li>Jerryd Jones, political science, Outstanding Delegate<\/li>\n<li>Brad Klingbeil, mechanical engineering, Distinguished Delegate<\/li>\n<li>Randall Bierman, psychology, Honorable Mention in the U.N. Development Program<\/li>\n<li>Chloe Johnston, history, Distinguished Delegate<\/li>\n<li>Misker Dressie, political science, Honorable Mention in the Commission on the Status of Women<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Wright State students Randall Bierman, Hendrix and Reyes Cooper also won three of the four best-in-committee paper awards. Cooper also won best overall for the conference.<\/p>\n<p>Next for the Wright State team is the National Model United Nations (NMUN) International Conference in New York City from March 23-29.<\/p>\n<p>The team will represent Spain in the international conference. The team\u2019s head delegates are Marwah Almuzoughi and Destiny Mullen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWright State has had a Model U.N. team since 1970. We are on a 43-year streak of winning overall team awards at the NMUN international conference in New York City,\u201d said Vaughn Shannon, Ph.D., professor of political science.<\/p>\n<p>Shannon and Liam Anderson, Ph.D., professor of political science, are the team\u2019s faculty advisors.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, April 13, Wright State will host the second annual <a href=\"https:\/\/liberal-arts.wright.edu\/social-sciences-and-international-studies\/wrightmun-high-school-model-united-nations-conference\">WrightMUN High School Model United Nations Conference <\/a>on the Dayton Campus. Teams may apply and request which countries they want to represent at <a href=\"https:\/\/wright.ca1.qualtrics.com\/jfe\/form\/SV_8v5uxsEYWc9kYm2\">wright.ca1.qualtrics.com\/jfe\/form\/SV_8v5uxsEYWc9kYm2<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wright State students won nine committee awards, three best-in-committee paper awards and best overall at the 31st Dayton Model United Nations Conference. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2024\/02\/12\/wright-state-model-u-n-team-delivers-strong-showing-at-dayton-competition-heading-to-nationals-in-new-york\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":146668,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[722,725,747,2099,715,4855],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-home-news-sidebar","category-liberal-arts","category-model-un","category-news","category-social-sciences-and-international-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146663"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146738,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146663\/revisions\/146738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}