Welcome to the Department of Health, Physical Education and Recreation at Utah State University. This is your first step in selecting a great program, at a great university, in a spectacular environment. If you have an interest in working with people to enhance their quality of life through physical activity then we have a degree for you.

HPER Graduate Student Receives $1,000 Graduate Student Senate Research and Project Grant for her project "Physiological responses to whole body vibration exercise in a young healthy child: A Case Study.: The money will be used to by an electroencephalography cap and electrodes so we can measure the difference in EEG readings during/after running vs. a vibration treatment.  Congratulations Mandi!

Monday February 8th, Dr. Gordin leaves for the Olympics in Vancouver!!!

Link to Nordic Combined Schedule

1 credit courses in Moab during this spring semester (Hiking; and Geology of the National Parks).  

Graduates Make A difference in Haiti

Ms. Mandi L. McBride (B.S. Physical Education, 2000) and Carol Buxton Smith (B.S., Health Education, 1976)

Utah Nurses Helped Orphans in Quake (article from Deseret News January 16, 2010)