The University of Utah participants, led by Assistant Professor Adam Luedtke, were Maranda Skoubye, Stanley Lloyd, Irma Hodzic, Ingrid Price, Steven Snyder and Joseph Swenson.
The University of Utah team took the most individual awards of any school, beating the likes of University of Colorado, University of Oregon, the University of British Columbia, and Brigham Young University.
Stanley Lloyd won the title of Outstanding Environment Minister for his representation of Greece, while Maranda Skoubye won Outstanding Prime Minister (honorable mention) for her leadership of the Austrian delegation. No other school won awards in both categories.
2008 University of Utah Model European Union Team
The Model EU is a simulation of a European Council summit. Teams made up of two undergraduate students play the roles of representatives of EU member state delegations. This year, the students negotiated issues discussed during the German Presidency of 2007. The 2008 Model EU featured two concurrent summit negotiation sessions focusing on the following issues: the Constitutional Treaty and climate change.
Madeleine K. Albright, president of the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation, announced that 65 students from 55 US colleges and universities have been selected as 2008 Truman Scholars. They were elected by seventeen independent selection panels on the basis of leadership potential, intellectual ability, and likelihood of 'making a difference.'
The 65 Scholars were selected from among 595 candidates nominated by 283 colleges and universities. Each selection panel interviewed Finalists from a 3 - 4 state region and generally elected one Scholar from each state and one at-large Scholar from the region. Each panel typically included a university president, a federal judge, a distinguished public servant, and a past Truman Scholarship winner.
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