Research projects completed by students in Eastern’s College of Sciences will be on display and later awarded Friday.

The seventh annual Sciencefest will be held from 1:30 to 5 p.m. in the University Ballroom in the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.

Richard Wandling, chair of Sciencefest planning and political science chair, said that the afternoon will begin when Mary Anne Hanner, acting dean of the College of Sciences, gives the State of the College Address.

Immediately following Hanner’s address, a panel of five students from the College of Sciences will conduct a panel discussion about leadership and service activities. Each student will give a brief presentation on the topic, Wandling said.

One undergraduate student, Diana Davis, and one graduate student, Pamela Davidson, whose projects were chosen as the two best, will present their research projects after the panel discussion, Wandling said.

After the presentations, the remaining projects chosen from each department on the undergraduate and graduate level will be presented during the poster session.

To conclude the afternoon, 11 undergraduate projects, seven graduate projects and distinguished faculty members from the College of Sciences will be recognized during an awards ceremony.

The 11 undergraduate researchers will receive SURE awards, or the Scholars in Undergraduate Research at Eastern awards. The seven graduate researchers will receive GSI, or Graduate Student Investigator awards, Wandling said.

A faculty member from each department in the College of Sciences will receive a Teacher’s Scholar Award during the awards presentation.

“Faculty members in each department vote to present the Teacher’s Scholar Award to one individual in their department,” Wandling said.

The College of Sciences’ Student Advisory Board also accepted nominations from students and will present one teacher from the college with the Outstanding Faculty award.

Wandling said the Sciencefest will show the public that Eastern students are doing “very good things.”

Admission to the Sciencefest is free and open to the public.