Congresswoman Slaughter used her position and platform to bring awareness to domestic violence and demand Congress take measures that would affect critical social change. For four consecutive years, she went before the House of Representatives to declare October Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
Happy Halloween, Louise-ers!
You've done the pumpkin carving. You've probably watched some scary movies. You may even go trick-or-treating. But what about visiting a cemetery that's several centuries old? Let's go back to 2011 when Congresswoman Slaughter was there. (You didn't think we were suggesting actually visiting a cemetery, did you?)
Come gather ’round people, wherever you roam
And admit that the waters around you have grown
And accept it that soon you’ll be drenched to the bone
If your time to you is worth saving
Then you better start swimmin’ or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin’
What if Eastman Quad had a hedge maze and Wilson Quad had an in-ground pool? Rocky deserves his own statue somewhere, right? Couldn’t the tunnel system be a bit more expansive? These are the types of questions students were asking themselves during a recent hands-on workshop held by Studio X, the University of Rochester’s hub for immersive technologies.
At this time last year, the University of Rochester was blissfully unaware of an emerging coronavirus that had aspirations of becoming a pandemic. That bubble burst at the end of January when the World Health Organization declared a global health emergency. Days later, President Sarah Mangelsdorf took action. She created and charged the Coronavirus University Response Team (CURT) with assessing how the outbreak could affect the University and Medical Center and developing a comprehensive response plan. The River Campus Libraries (RCL) did the same.
When the University of Rochester Libraries celebrated the arrival of its newest team member on July 30, there were no balloons or cake. There wasn’t even a card.
(There may have been joyful tears, shed behind closed office doors.)
That’s because the newest “staff member” is the new library system, Alma. A cloud-based services platform, Alma succeeds the 23-year-old integrated library system Voyager.
If you've traveled through New York State, you've definitely seen cows. Lots of them. This week's Louise shares a photo of the congresswoman at a dairy farm in the 1980s. As Congress’s only microbiologist, she pent a great deal of her career fighting for more regulation of the drugs used on industrial livestock farms. That's because she knew a great deal about the public health risks that come with routinely feeding antibiotics to livestock in order to promote their growth.
Archives preserve special moments and make them accessible to future generations. Recently, we discovered photos from a 2015 event that unveiled a portrait of Congresswoman Slaughter painted in honor of her service as chair of the House Rules Committee (2007–2011).
Here's a look back at simpler times. Congresswoman Slaughter attended the City of Rochester's 2015 Puerto Rican Festival and stopped to pose with Rocky the Yellowjacket, the University of Rochester's mascot.
In 2019, the University of Rochester received the Congressional papers of the Honorable Louise McIntosh Slaughter (1929–2018) from her family establishing the Louise M. Slaughter Congressional Collection.
But who was Louise M. Slaughter?
