Highlights

• Arts and Sciences graduate Joe O’Shea (B.A., philosophy) was named a Rhodes Scholar in 2008, one of Florida State University’s three Rhodes Scholars in four years
• Other awards won recently by Arts and Sciences students include the Truman, Goldwater, and Fulbright
• Notable faculty members include Nobel laureate Sir Harold Kroto of the Chemistry and Biochemistry Department and Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler of the English Department
• Distinguished alumni include Mark Thiemens and Patricia Spear, members of the National Academy of Science; U.S. Senator Kay Hagan of North Carolina; and John Crowe, chairman and CEO of Buckeye Technologies, Inc.
• The Atlantic magazine ranked the doctoral program in Creative Writing among the top five in the nation
• FSU consistently ranks in the top 10 universities nationally in physical sciences grants awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), while the NSF ranks psychology at FSU fourth among all U.S. universities in terms of attracting external research money