Honors
Gilpatrick House: The Honors Center
Gilpatrick House, a renovated Victorian house on campus, serves as the Center for the Honors Program. Gilpatrick House's seminar room, modeled after one at Brasenose College, Oxford, is the location of many of the Program's daily seminars. The Center also has a "commons" which serves as meeting, study and lounge space for Honors students and the location for the popular Thursday Gilpatrick Chowder Hours. The building houses the administrative offices for the Program and its upper floor provides residential space for ten students in the Honors Program.
The 2007-2008 Gilpatrick residents: Back row, left to right: Becky Boylan '08 (Gahanna, Ohio), John Schaffranek '09 (Columbus, Ohio), Nathan Dailey '09 (Parkersburg, W.Va.), Sam Behrend '09 (Raleigh, N.C.) Front Row, left to right: Qi "Nico" Hu '10 (Chengdu, China), Prachi Vakharia '10 (Mumbai, India), Heather Geiger '09 (Rockville, Md.), Alice Burger '10 (Evansville, Ind.), and Joanna Kreiselman, Gilpatrick Fellow, '09 (Columbus, Ohio)
Residency in Gilpatrick House is open to sophomore, junior and senior Honors students. Applications are available in the Honors Program Office in February of each year. Selection is based on grade point average, past involvement with the Honors Program both academically and extracurricularly, and a willingness to assist the Program. One student is selected to be the Gilpatrick Fellow, the head resident of the building and person responsible for chairing the Honors Social Committee which plans the many activities for all Honors students on campus.