Harvard National Model United Nations
Harvard National Model United Nations or HNMUN is the longest running college-level Model United Nations simulation in the world and among the largest in the United States. HNMUN is an annual four day event held in February, composed of three thousand university students of which half tend to be international students. The conference is held exclusively at the prestigious Boston Park Plaza Hotel in downtown Boston. The fifty-ninth session of HNMUN will be held from February 14–17, 2013. HNMUN was first run in 1955, ten years after the formation of the United Nations.
Awards are conferred upon individual delegates in their respective committees and to delegations in the categories of best small, best large, and best international delegation.
Delegation winners for the 2012 conference were:
Best Small Delegation George Washington University.
Best Large Delegation Yale University.
Outstanding Large Delegation University of Chicago.
Best International Delegation Universidad Simon Bolivar.
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