Ruth Clifford Engs is an American academic writer who is Professor Emeritus, Applied Health Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.
After graduation and a divorce, she taught health education and nursing courses at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia for a year.
For her dissertation she studied the "Personality traits and the health knowledge of telephone crisis intervention volunteers in the state of Tennessee.
"[1] When she graduated from Tennessee, she started working as an assistant professor in the Department of Applied Health Science, Indiana University.
During most of her first twenty years, Professor Engs explored factors for the determinants of behavior focusing upon university student drinking.
[citation needed] During her first 20 years she published numerous papers on various aspects of college student drinking practices in the United States and many other countries.
This led to Clean Lean Living Movement: American Cycles of Health Reform (2000) which was featured in the New York Times Science Book Section.