The international students program will honor its exceptional students at the International Programs Spring Awards Banquet at 6 p.m. Wednesday.

The buffet dinner will begin at 6 p.m. in in the Grand Ballroom of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union and an awards ceremony will follow.

“It’s a very special night for our international community,” said Sue Songer, international student adviser. “It’s an opportunity to congratulate the spring graduates that are international students.”

Sixteen plaques will be awarded to outstanding international students who were nominated by department chairs and other faculty members, Songer said.

The winners in each department are: Khaled Abdou, a senior business major; Teng-yun Chiang, a graduate technology major; Sebastian Huluban, a graduate political science major; Jane Kabogo, a graduate family and consumer science major; Lina Li, a graduate special education major; Jinbing Ma, a graduate mathematics major; Abhay Mane, a graduate physical education major; Mirjam Mueller, a graduate history major; Kiranmayi Padmaraju, a graduate early childhood, elementary and middle level education major; Yunyi Qu, a graduate economics major; Oscar Salazar, a freshman of the intensive English program; Fei Shen, a graduate biological sciences major; Vi Tran, a graduate English major; Yovita Widyadharma, a senior art major; Keiko Yoneyama, a senior psychology major; and Donghua Zeng, a graduate chemistry major.

The international students program, which includes about 150 students, is a division of the graduate school but is open to graduate and undergraduate students.

Eastern’s study abroad program offers semester and summer exchange programs with Belgium, Germany, France, Sweden, Australia, Colombia, Wales, The Netherlands and Hungary, Songer said.

Although this event is open for the public, guest tickets have been sold out.