December 18, 2003

Student Organizers Of Health Fair Receive Golden Gull Award

Students who have organized health fairs for the past seven years at Boise State University have received the Golden Gull Award from the Pacific Coast College Health Association (PCCHA). Students in the upper division and graduate level health promotion class taught by Boise State kinesiology professor Caile Spear have organized health fairs for the campus and community, with a different theme each year. This years’ fair, themed “revolutionary education for families,” was held Nov. 19 and featured more than 30 educational booths on topics from smoking cessation to exercise, vision and hearing screenings, flu shots, bone density testing and other services. PCCHA is a region of the American College Health Association, the principal advocacy and leadership organization for health professionals at colleges and universities that includes more than 900 institutions of higher education. The Golden Gull Award was established in 2001 to recognize exemplary, innovative and inspirational practices in college health. The REACH (Recreation, Education and Awareness Through Community Health) fair is planned, implemented and evaluated by students as a service-learning project. Several past students have said their current employers hired them in part due to the leadership, organizational and planning skills they acquired while organizing the health fair. -30- Contact Caile Spear Kinesiology 208 426-3656 Media contact Pat Pyke communications and marketing 208 426-1987