Content warning: This story contains mentions of eating disorders.
Northwestern’s Body Acceptance Week, organized by Health Promotion and Wellness, offers programming every year during the last week...
Psychology Prof. Renee Engeln’s Body and Media Lab illuminates how society’s obsession with beauty harms women.
Engeln’s research explores cultural practices that damage the relationships between...
Ejun Kim started recovering from her eating disorder last summer. The Medill freshman said she was breaking free from bingeing and purging cycles; she was cultivating a healthy relationship with food and...
Psychology Prof. Renee Engeln recently released her first book, “Beauty Sick,” which uses stories of women and girls to explain a cultural obsession with women’s appearances that prevents them from...
Northwestern’s Faculty-in-Residence program will double in size next academic year as part of the University’s plan to strengthen the connection between faculty and students outside the classroom....
