UNE's PSC Students travel to the United Nations

This spring the Political Science Department offered an advanced course on Model United Nations, which is the second time this course has been offered. Led by political science assistant professor Julie Mueller, Students from UNE participated along with 5,000+ peers from 340 schools on five continents in the 2010 National Model United Nations-NY (NMUN-NY) conference, hosted by the National Collegiate Conference Association.

Eleven political science students (Ashley Berquist 11, John Connell 11, Justin Davis 11, Kaitlyn Dyleski 10, Brianni Frazier 11, Elyse Johnson 12, Donovan Marvin 10, Aaron Mitchell 11, Chase Sheaff 12, Whitney Underwood 12, and Briana White 11) took part.  Students were paired with partners from BGSU to represent France on a variety of committees, including the UN General Assembly committees, the Security Council, UNICEF, NATO, the International Court of Justice and the UN Environment Programme.