{"id":473062,"date":"2016-04-05T15:22:29","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T20:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=473062"},"modified":"2016-04-06T15:22:02","modified_gmt":"2016-04-06T20:22:02","slug":"ut-tyler-model-un-program-recognized-at-national-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=473062","title":{"rendered":"UT Tyler Model UN Program Recognized at National Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/10\/U-T-Tyler-Sign.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-406011\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/10\/U-T-Tyler-Sign-150x91.jpg\" alt=\"U-T Tyler Sign\" width=\"150\" height=\"91\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-406011\" \/><\/a>TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Students from The University of Texas at Tyler Model United Nations Program have been recognized at this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s National Collegiate Model UN Conference in New York. The program is a part of the Department of Political Science and History. In recognition of their excellence in the conference as a whole, the UT Tyler delegation, representing Madagascar, received the Distinguished Delegation Award. According to a news release from the school, this honor is presented to the top delegations and based on continually remaining \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcin character,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 teamwork, leadership, speaking and negotiating abilities, knowledge of the issues and proper usage of the procedure rules.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The UT Tyler students honored were Mariam Bojang of the Gambia, West Africa; Rheagan David of Amarillo, Christopher M. Nafrady of Longview, Grace M. Parker of Farmers Branch, Cassidy L. Rose of Mineola, Sherdil N. Sehgal of Gresham and Nizia Alam, Olivia A. LeVoy, Leslie Reyna and Melissa Salgado, all of Tyler.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the overall award, two delegates were recognized with individual awards. Levoy and Nafrady both were recognized with the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Outstanding Position Paper\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Award for their exemplary work during conference preparations.  This award is based on professional writing style, ability to clearly articulate the positions of their assigned Member State and the thoroughness of research over assigned topics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Students from The University of Texas at Tyler Model United Nations Program have been recognized at this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s National Collegiate Model UN Conference in New York. The program is a part of the Department of Political Science and History. In recognition of their excellence in the conference as a whole, the UT Tyler &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=473062\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UT Tyler Model UN Program Recognized at National Conference<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":406011,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-473062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-18 19:17:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=473062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":473063,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473062\/revisions\/473063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/406011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=473062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=473062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=473062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}