Student Recognition
The Model UN team advised by Ron Fox, Government, won a “Best Position Paper Award” at the 2005 National Model UN conference, held over spring break in New York City. This award, given to only 10 of the over 200 schools participating in the conference, is for the policy papers each delegation writes expressing their assigned country's or nongovernmental organization's position on the issues being debated at the UN simulation. Sacramento State represented the nongovernmental organization Third World Network. This is the third time Sacramento State has won this award in the five years it has been given.
Deans' Award - Given for the first time in 2005, the award recognizes a top student from each of the University's seven colleges. It was given to Luciano Arce who graduates this month with bachelor's degrees in economics and government from the College of Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Studies 13 years after arriving in the United States from Mexico as an unskilled, undocumented immigrant who spoke no English. While running a grocery store in Winters with his brother, a naturalized U.S. citizen, and serving as a translator for small ranchers, Arce became a U.S. resident, earned his GED and in fall 2002 transferred to Sacramento State. He plans to enter the University's master's program in economics.
Faculty Senate honors scholarship recipients
The winners of the 2004 Merit Scholarship Award will be honored at a special meeting of the Faculty Senate on Thursday, Feb. 17 at 4 p.m. in the Hinde Auditorium.
Winners are chosen based upon high academic achievement and their service and contributions to the campus and community. The scholarship award is equivalent to registration fees for the spring 2005 semester.
Sheena Murray, a senior and double major in economics and government, works and attends school full-time while active in several organizations, including the College Democrats, F.M.L.A. and the Sacramento National Organization of Women, where she is a board member. Murray intends to pursue a master's degree in economics and work in public policy development.
