Ruth C. Engs is Professor Emeritus, Bloomington, Indiana University, Applied Health Science and IN. Since the middle parts of the 1990s she has engaged herself in the research on social movements which is related to public health issues and health, with special attention towards the Progressive Era. Ruth Clifford Engs was born in Pennsylvania, but spent her earlier years in the small town of Bethel, Vermont. She went to schools in the locality. She went to Cushing Academy, Ashburnham, Ma. After completing her graduation in 1957 she entered the University of Vermont and from their graduated in 1961 with a B.A. in Liberal Arts as a major in chemistry and minor in English literature and biology.
After completing her college graduation she worked for two years as the laboratory assistant in the Bacteriology Department of Harvard Medical School. After deciding that she did not like bench research and having the itchy feet, in the fall of 1963 she visited Australia on a merchant ship and returned after a year to San Francisco. Ruth C. Engs observed during her travels that registered nurses were capable of getting jobs anywhere, and therefore she opted for a two year nursing program.
In the mid-1960s Ruth C. Engs married her first husband, Bill Engs, with whom she had some interactions in a backpacking trip.
After staying in the Bay Area for five years, Ruth C. Engs and her husband went to Eugene Oregon for graduate work. Although nursing was her primary interest, she found likeness in the field of teaching. She completed two masters? degrees at the University of Oregon. The two fields on which she completed her masters were health education and counseling psychology. After her graduation and divorce, she had spent her time teaching nursing courses and health education at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia for one year. There, along with the medical and nursing students, she engineered the Med-Aid Station, a street clinic, for the youths who were visiting Canada during this era. She realized the need for a doctorate and went to the University of Tennessee from where she graduated.
After graduating from Tennessee, she started working as an assistant professor in the Department of Applied Health Science, Indiana University. She was then tenured and promoted to an associate and then as a professor. Ruth C. Engs retired from teaching in the year, 2003. Most of the first 20 years of her career, Professor Engs spent in exploring factors for the determining factor of behavior keeping in view the drinking habits of the university students. This stress on alcohol developed from an invitation by the Dean of Student?s Office to build up an education program on alcohol. Engs and her committee coordinated and produced the film Booz and Yous in 1975 and after ten years Drinking and Thinking were produced. She also planned and examined the Student Alcohol Questionnaire which is in use now by hundreds of students and various researchers every year in the world.
Ruth C. Engs was awarded the School of HPER, Indiana University Outstanding Researcher Award in the year, 2002 and the Robert Kirk Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Tennessee?s Department of Health Education in the year, 1997.
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