When the Model United Nations team’s spring conference was canceled due to the pandemic, Dr. Rebecca Flavin designed a simulation to take the place of the conference. The members of the team formed task forces to study the many ways the pandemic affects the world and make recommendations to the United Nations General Assembly about […]
Continue reading →The Baylor Model Organization of the American States (MOAS) team chartered unfamiliar water this past week with the very first Washington Model Organization of American States (WMOAS) e-Model. On March 12, WMOAS officials cancelled the WMOAS conference in Washington, D.C. due to COVID-19 and announced that conference was going to take place online. Traditionally, the […]
Continue reading →Every winter, Baylor’s Department of Political Science invites the highest-achieving students majoring in political science or international studies to apply to attend a foreign policy conference hosted by a military academy. The faculty choose up to eight students to attend a conference at West Point, the U.S. Naval Academy, the U.S. Air Force Academy, […]
Continue reading →Each year, every academic program chooses students to honor at the Academic Honors Week Convocation. The 2020 Academic Honors Week Convocation honors two outstanding students from the International Studies major: Audrey Crites and Estelle McKinney. Congratulations, Audrey and Estelle! Q&A with Audrey Crites 1. Why did you choose the IST major? I chose to major […]
Continue reading →By Dr. Rebecca Flavin, Baylor Model United Nations Faculty Advisor On February 7-9, 2020, thirteen members of the Baylor Model United Nations team participated in the 5th Annual Texas Model United Nations Conference. The Osgood Center for International Studies staged the conference, and the University of Houston Honors College serve as hosts for the conference where […]
Continue reading →By Clay Parham Undergraduate conferences are an interesting thing. Since most of the work we do during our undergraduate is only seen by one or two people, the kind of critical analysis that is vital for truly understanding a topic seldom comes. There exists the importance of undergraduate conferences. The Claremont-UC Undergraduate Conference on the […]
Continue reading →By Shelby Toles Last semester, I received the opportunity to be a student representative for the American Chemical Society, a non-governmental organization comprised of scientists all over the world. I was selected to be on a five-student team of chemistry students to go to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 24th Conference of […]
Continue reading →Interview by Sarah Gendron Youshay Rizvi is a senior International Studies major from Hackensack, New Jersey, and will be attending graduate school at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in the fall 2019 semester to pursue an MA in American Foreign Policy. The Baylor in Washington Semester Program provides students with a unique […]
Continue reading →A Collection by Belle Homer Belle Homer is a senior International Studies and French double major. She enjoys photography as a hobby. Belle took these photos while traveling Europe during her stay in Aix with the IAU study abroad program affiliation. She strongly encourages students to study abroad if they can. Belle has even more […]
Continue reading →James Worsham (’19) is a Mathematics major with double minors in International Studies and Japanese. He is from Nashville, TN. He studied Japanese language and culture at Seinan Gakuin University in Fukuoka, Japan. After graduation, James plans to spend a year living in Japan before heading to grad school. He hopes to work for a […]
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