Clark Model UN Team returns from Harvard Conference with awards in hand

Clark's MUN team at the Harvard National Model United Nations Conference in February 2016.

A delegation of 20 members of Clark University‘s Model U.N. Team recently participated in the 62^nd session of the Harvard National Model United Nations Conference (HNMUN 2016); several returned with awards for their performance in highly competitive committees.

Pingzhen Hu ’16 (left) and Doga Bilgin ’16 were both awarded Outstanding Delegate in the Science and Technology Committee

Doga Bilgin ’16 and Pingzhen Hu ’16 were awarded Outstanding Delegate in the Science and Technology Committee; Justin Lewis ’16 was awarded Outstanding Delegate in the World Health Organization Committee; Absar Syed Ali ’17 and Dea Dodi ’17 received Honorable Mentions in the Disarmament and International Security Committee, and Lance Yau ’16 and Brendan Burgess ’18 received Honorable Mentions in the Historical General Assembly 1979.

“Our team put in an exceptional effort this year,” said Srini Sitaraman, associate professor of political science, who serves as Model U.N. faculty adviser. “The drive, commitment and ability to sustain the intensity for four consecutive days was truly amazing.”

Each year the HNMUN conference attracts more than 3,000 student delegates from all over the world, representing 70 countries of the 193 UN member states.

Clark University will host the Middle School Model UN Conference on Saturday, April 2, in partnership with the UN-Association of Greater Boston.

Founded in 1887 in Worcester, Massachusetts, Clark University is a liberal arts-based research university addressing social and human imperatives on a global scale. Nationally renowned as a college that changes lives, Clark is emerging as a transformative force in higher education today. LEEP (Liberal Education and Effective Practice) is Clark’s pioneering model of education that combines a robust liberal arts curriculum with life-changing world and workplace experiences. Clark’s faculty and students work across boundaries to develop solutions to complex challenges in the natural sciences, psychology, geography, management, urban education, Holocaust and genocide studies, environmental studies, and international development and social change. The Clark educational experience embodies the University’s motto: Challenge convention. Change our world.