UD to host events for National Eating Disorder Awareness Week

2:20 p.m., Feb. 23, 2012--The University of Delaware will be participating in National Eating Disorder Awareness Week, beginning on Sunday, Feb. 26, and running through Saturday, March 3. 

All events will be held at the Trabant University Center and are free and open to the University and greater Newark community. Activities are scheduled as follows:

Campus Stories

From graduates, faculty

As it neared time for the processional to open the University of Delaware Commencement ceremonies, graduating students and faculty members shared their feelings about what the event means to them.

Doctoral hooding

It was a day of triumph, cheers and collective relief as more than 160 students from 21 nations participated in the University of Delaware's Doctoral Hooding Convocation held Friday morning on The Green.

• Doctoral hooding
• Old Swedes
• Summer SAT, ACT prep
• 'Opus 13' pre-sale

• Monday, Feb. 27, 7 p.m. -- "Embracing Real Beauty With Stacy Nadeau." Stacy Nadeau, one of the “real women” of 2005’s Dove Campaign for Real Beauty, will speak about her experience as one of the five brave women who stood proudly in their underwear to help celebrate the diversity of body shapes and sizes, generating national attention with billboards across the nation and making more women feel beautiful by widening today’s stereotypical view of beauty.

• Tuesday, Feb. 28, 7 p.m. -- "Finding Your Voice: Silencing the Inner Critic." The University’s Eating Disorders Consultation Group, featuring faculty members Mary Anne Lacour, Carrie Heitzman and Kristin Mehr, all counselors at the Center for Counseling and Student Development, will explore how perfectionism and external standards of worth fuel the inner critic and limit people's lives. They will provide information about eating disorders and body image issues on campus, as well as available support resources to students, faculty and staff at the University.

• Wednesday, Feb. 29, 7 p.m. -- "Miss Representation." Eating disorder survivor Emily Haas, whose sister is a current UD student, will speak about her experience in a presentation entitled "Starving for Attention, Dying to be Thin." A screening will follow of the documentary Miss Representation by Jennifer Siebel Newsom, which premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and aired on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network in October. The film explores how the media’s misrepresentation of women has led to their underrepresentation in positions of power and influence and exposes how their value lies in youth, beauty, sexuality and appearance rather than intelligence.

• Thursday, March 1, 7 p.m. -- "Operation Beautiful: Transforming the Way You See Yourself One Post-It Note at a Time." Caitlin Boyle, editor of Operation Beautiful -- anonymous notes featuring positive, encouraging messages posted in public places for others to find -- will present shocking examples of Photoshop editing as a springboard for discussing America's body image crisis. She will challenge the audience to ask what advertisers are really selling us and lead a discussion about some of the most pivotal body image topics facing young women and men today.

For a flier about National Eating Disorder Awareness Week, click here.