<p>FSU student Jesse O’Shea made the USAToday All-USA College Academic team. His brother, [Joe</a> O’Shea<a href=“also%20an%20FSU%20grad”>/url</a>, won the Rhodes a few years ago.
Jesse O’Shea </p>
<p>Florida State University </p>
<p>Hometown: Tallahassee Age: 21</p>
<p>Majors: Biological science, interdisciplinary social sciences</p>
<p>GPA: 3.85 Graduating: May 2011</p>
<p>Career goal: M.D., Ph.D.</p>
<p>Accomplishments: After a life-changing visit to Haiti in 2008, he founded the Global Haiti Initiative, which has grown into a national program with more than 20 chapters. FSU’s chapter tackles the problems of clean water, de-worming and education. “Haiti infused me with enough motivation to help others for several lifetimes,” he says. He is also the founder of Protect Our Professors, which raised more than $125,000 in one semester to protect the jobs of faculty and staff during a “colossal” budget shortfall. He says that POP “sent a strong message … that students would not tolerate the sinking of our flagship university.” He established a campus political party, the STATE Party, with the goal of promoting diversity and leadership. He co-founded the first student-run United Way in the country and also created Students United for Health Care Reform. His scientific research focuses on a human DNA tumor virus.
See: [url=<a href=“http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2010-06-09-allusa-college-bios_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip]All-USA ”>http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2010-06-09-allusa-college-bios_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip ]All-USA</a> College Academic First Team: 2010 biographies - USATODAY.com ](<a href=“http://www.sptimes.com/2007/11/20/State/Scholar_sees_duty_in_.shtml]Joe ”>http://www.sptimes.com/2007/11/20/State/Scholar_sees_duty_in_.shtml )</p>